Serves every provider’s models through one key with no token markup — you pay the provider’s list price plus a percentage on top-up
Price checked 12.10.2026
About the company
OpenRouter was founded in 2023 by Alex Atallah, a co-founder of OpenSea, and its job is infrastructural and exactly as dull as it is useful. Instead of holding a key per provider, a developer connects to one endpoint and gets three hundred models, with requests failing over to a backup when one goes down. There is no token markup: you pay the provider’s list price and the service takes a cut on credit top-ups — 5.5% on the standard tier. No monthly subscription exists, so a monthly price does not apply to this card.
Sources: openrouter.ai
What it does
- Over 300 models through one key
- No token markup, only a top-up fee
- Automatic failover to a backup provider
- No monthly subscription at all
What it costs
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Standardmost picked | on request | model list price plus 5.5% on credit top-ups |
| Business | on request | model list price plus 8% |
- Many models, one key
- Open weights
- Has an API