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OpenRouter Review 2026 — One API for 200+ AI Models
OpenRouter gives you access to 200+ AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and more via one OpenAI-compatible API. Free tier includes Llama 3.3, DeepSeek, and Mistral.
OpenRouter gives developers a single interface for text, image, video, and audio models. It supports model discovery, provider routing, fallbacks, chat, usage tracking, and OpenAI-compatible API requests.
Developers and teams use it to compare models, manage inference costs, and keep applications running when providers fail. Usage is billed by model and provider; paid plans also charge platform fees, while some enterprise controls require Business or Enterprise plans.
Features
- Routes text, image, video, and audio requests through one interface
- Provides access to 500+ models from 80+ providers
- Offers OpenAI-compatible API access
- Supports automatic routing, provider preferences, and fallbacks
- Provides chat, model discovery, rankings, and benchmarks
- Supports custom data policies and provider restrictions
- Offers US and EU in-region routing on Business and Enterprise plans
- Provides shell server and Files API access in beta
Use cases
- Compare models and providers before selecting one for an application
- Build applications that switch models without changing the integration
- Route requests around provider outages or capacity limits
- Control inference spending with budgets, logs, and usage analytics
- Keep eligible workloads processed within US or EU regions
- Add web search, file handling, or other tools to model requests
Pros
Cons
Latest updates
- Guardrails Now Separate Organization Limits from Workspace Defaults
Admins can set organization-wide limits and manage budgets and model access separately for each person.
- How we rebuilt provider routing for better, faster inference
A new routing algorithm monitors provider endpoint performance to balance cost, speed, and reliability for each request.
- CSAM Screening Across OpenRouter
OpenRouter will screen all inference requests for potential CSAM during processing.
- Private Endpoints: Bring Your Fine-Tuned Models and Capacity to OpenRouter
Enterprise customers can route their fine-tuned models and dedicated deployments through private endpoints on OpenRouter.
- ElevenLabs is now on OpenRouter
ElevenLabs is now available on OpenRouter with 9 Text to Speech and 2 Speech to Text models.
Capabilities
- Choice of models — “All major models in one place.” source
- No code retained — “Provider-side retention can be disabled for the account or per request, and Zero Data Retention routing is available on every plan.” source
- API — “Create an API key and start making requests. Fully OpenAI compatible .” source
- Official SDKs — “Client SDKs” source
- Builds agents and workflows — “Agent SDK” source
- Traces and evaluates — “Activity logs & export” source
Get it
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Pricing
- Starting price
- Free
- Prices checked
- 2026-11-05
Free
Free
- 25+ free models
- 4 free providers
- Chat and API access
- 50 requests/day
- Community support
Standard
- 5.5% on credit purchases
- 600+ models
- 80+ providers
- Auto-routing and preferred vendor selections
- Budgets and spend controls
- Email support
Business
- 8% on credit purchases
- 600+ models
- 80+ providers
- Advanced notifications
- EU and US in-region routing
- Workload Identity Federation
- Email support
Enterprise
Price on request
- 600+ models
- 80+ providers
- Private Endpoints
- Managed Policy Enforcement
- SSO/SAML
- Dedicated support team