AI Development Platforms
OpenRouter
Access multiple AI models through one API, with a model directory, routing, and developer integrations.
Official identity and purpose checked · 2026-10-23
- Plans
- 4
- Official sources
- 8
- Hands-on tests
- 0 not tested here
- Data date
- 2026-10-23
Purpose
Access multiple AI models through one API, with a model directory, routing, and developer integrations.
Key features
- Select models through a shared API
- Configure model routing and fallbacks
- Use API, client SDK, and agent SDK integration documentation
Suggested starting workflow
- Confirm a model and provider conditions in the catalog
- Test a minimal request with a spending boundary
- Check response formats, fallbacks, and data-handling terms before expanding usage
These are editorial starting suggestions based on the product purpose, not a workflow tested by this site.
Before you use it
- Not tested hands-on here; feature descriptions come from official material.
- Pricing, regions, languages, and commercial eligibility have not been verified per plan. A visible entry point does not establish account access.
- Check facts, asset rights, and actual results before publishing or executing generated work.
Pricing & plans
Selected plan facts only, not a complete plan review or a task test. Check the source date and confirm current terms with the provider. Unverified conditions remain unknown.
Complete review Every listed plan of this tool has a complete review. Complete review: price, currency, billing period, platforms, languages, regions, watermark, commercial use and offline use each have a source or a stated reason they could not be confirmed. It is not a task test and does not guarantee current prices.
Free · limited free models Complete reviewUSD 0 · Free plan; ongoing task allowance unknownConditions and usage notes
- Web access
- Verified supported ↗
- Chinese task support
- Unknown
- Mainland China availability
- Unknown
- Fully watermark-free
- Unknown
- Commercial rights
- Unknown
- API access
- Verified supported ↗
Fields that could not be confirmed, and why
- Desktop: The official pages read do not state desktop access for this plan.
- Mobile: The official pages read do not state mobile access for this plan.
- Chinese support: The official pages read do not state Chinese support for this plan.
- English support: The official pages read do not state English support for this plan.
- Mainland China availability: The official pages read do not state mainland China availability for this plan.
- Availability outside China: The official pages read do not state availability outside China for this plan.
- Fully watermark-free: The official pages read do not state fully watermark-free output for this plan.
- Commercial rights: The official pages read do not state commercial-use rights for this plan.
- Offline use: The official pages read do not state offline use for this plan.
- The FAQ explicitly identifies US dollars for credits and site/API prices. Model/provider rates and token usage still need separate checks; end-to-end task costs are unknown.
- Credit-purchase fees are separate from inference spend. Taxes, auxiliary search/file parsing, provider region premiums and fallbacks can add costs.
- Data-region routing does not establish purchasing eligibility in a country. Chinese capability, commercial rights, watermark-free output and tasks are unverified; no signup, top-up or model call was made.
- Free lists Chat/API and 50 requests per day. Free models have rate caps; failed attempts count and negative balances can block them. Trials or higher limits after buying credits do not establish ongoing free completion of any task.
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Standard · prepaid credits and usage Complete reviewUsage billing; actual task costs unknownConditions and usage notes
- Web access
- Verified supported ↗
- Chinese task support
- Unknown
- Mainland China availability
- Unknown
- Fully watermark-free
- Unknown
- Commercial rights
- Unknown
- API access
- Verified supported ↗
- Platform fee on credit purchases
- 5.5% ↗
- BYOK fee above the fee-free allowance
- 5% ↗
- BYOK platform-fee allowance measured by list-price inference cost
- USD 25,000/month · Provider inference is still billed separately ↗
Fields that could not be confirmed, and why
- Price: Prepaid credits are charged at each provider's list price with no fixed subscription; 5.5% is a credit-purchase fee, not a task price.
- Desktop: The official pages read do not state desktop access for this plan.
- Mobile: The official pages read do not state mobile access for this plan.
- Chinese support: The official pages read do not state Chinese support for this plan.
- English support: The official pages read do not state English support for this plan.
- Mainland China availability: The pages describe EU/US data-processing routing only, not purchase eligibility or supported countries, so routing is not treated as availability.
- Availability outside China: The pages describe EU/US data-processing routing only, not purchase eligibility or supported countries, so routing is not treated as availability.
- Fully watermark-free: The official pages read do not state fully watermark-free output for this plan.
- Commercial rights: The official pages read do not state commercial-use rights for this plan.
- Offline use: The official pages read do not state offline use for this plan.
- The FAQ explicitly identifies US dollars for credits and site/API prices. Model/provider rates and token usage still need separate checks; end-to-end task costs are unknown.
- Credit-purchase fees are separate from inference spend. Taxes, auxiliary search/file parsing, provider region premiums and fallbacks can add costs.
- Data-region routing does not establish purchasing eligibility in a country. Chinese capability, commercial rights, watermark-free output and tasks are unverified; no signup, top-up or model call was made.
- The 5.5% fee applies when buying credits, not to each API request. Tokens deduct provider list-price costs. No minimum spend or fixed subscription does not mean zero task cost.
- The monthly BYOK fee-free allowance is USD 25,000 measured by list-price inference cost. Providers still bill inference directly; above it, OpenRouter charges 5% of its list price for the same model/provider, deducted from credits. This is neither free inference nor a fixed request count.
- BYOK failures can fall back to shared endpoints and spend OpenRouter credits. Model-level and provider-level restrictions have different scopes; other providers may still respond. No account budget or setting was tested.
- Standard excludes EU/US regional routing. Business/Enterprise rights cannot satisfy Standard constraints.
Source checked 2026-10-26 · Official sources ↗Official sources ↗Official sources ↗Official sources ↗
Business · prepaid credits and usage Complete reviewUsage billing; actual task costs unknownConditions and usage notes
- Web access
- Verified supported ↗
- Chinese task support
- Unknown
- Mainland China availability
- Unknown
- Fully watermark-free
- Unknown
- Commercial rights
- Unknown
- API access
- Verified supported ↗
- Platform fee on credit purchases
- 8% ↗
- BYOK fee above the fee-free allowance
- 5% ↗
- BYOK platform-fee allowance measured by list-price inference cost
- USD 25,000/month · Provider inference is still billed separately ↗
Fields that could not be confirmed, and why
- Price: Prepaid credits are charged at each provider's list price with no fixed subscription; 8% is a credit-purchase fee, not a task price.
- Desktop: The official pages read do not state desktop access for this plan.
- Mobile: The official pages read do not state mobile access for this plan.
- Chinese support: The official pages read do not state Chinese support for this plan.
- English support: The official pages read do not state English support for this plan.
- Mainland China availability: The pages describe EU/US data-processing routing only, not purchase eligibility or supported countries, so routing is not treated as availability.
- Availability outside China: The pages describe EU/US data-processing routing only, not purchase eligibility or supported countries, so routing is not treated as availability.
- Fully watermark-free: The official pages read do not state fully watermark-free output for this plan.
- Commercial rights: The official pages read do not state commercial-use rights for this plan.
- Offline use: The official pages read do not state offline use for this plan.
- The FAQ explicitly identifies US dollars for credits and site/API prices. Model/provider rates and token usage still need separate checks; end-to-end task costs are unknown.
- Credit-purchase fees are separate from inference spend. Taxes, auxiliary search/file parsing, provider region premiums and fallbacks can add costs.
- Data-region routing does not establish purchasing eligibility in a country. Chinese capability, commercial rights, watermark-free output and tasks are unverified; no signup, top-up or model call was made.
- The 8% fee applies when buying credits, not to each API request. Tokens deduct provider list-price costs. No minimum spend or fixed subscription does not mean zero task cost.
- The monthly BYOK fee-free allowance is USD 25,000 measured by list-price inference cost. Providers still bill inference directly; above it, OpenRouter charges 5% of its list price for the same model/provider, deducted from credits. This is neither free inference nor a fixed request count.
- BYOK failures can fall back to shared endpoints and spend OpenRouter credits. Model-level and provider-level restrictions have different scopes; other providers may still respond. No account budget or setting was tested.
- Business includes EU/US inference-region routing. This does not establish China purchasing eligibility or cover account/billing data or own-deployment regions.
Source checked 2026-10-26 · Official sources ↗Official sources ↗Official sources ↗Official sources ↗
Enterprise · contract quote Complete reviewUnknownConditions and usage notes
- Web access
- Verified supported ↗
- Chinese task support
- Unknown
- Mainland China availability
- Unknown
- Fully watermark-free
- Unknown
- Commercial rights
- Unknown
- API access
- Verified supported ↗
Fields that could not be confirmed, and why
- Price: Contract pricing; no amount is shown.
- Billing period: Prepayment, annual commitment and invoicing are contractual; no single billing period is shown.
- Desktop: The official pages read do not state desktop access for this plan.
- Mobile: The official pages read do not state mobile access for this plan.
- Chinese support: The official pages read do not state Chinese support for this plan.
- English support: The official pages read do not state English support for this plan.
- Mainland China availability: The pages describe EU/US data-processing routing only, not purchase eligibility or supported countries, so routing is not treated as availability.
- Availability outside China: The pages describe EU/US data-processing routing only, not purchase eligibility or supported countries, so routing is not treated as availability.
- Fully watermark-free: The official pages read do not state fully watermark-free output for this plan.
- Commercial rights: The official pages read do not state commercial-use rights for this plan.
- Offline use: The official pages read do not state offline use for this plan.
- The FAQ explicitly identifies US dollars for credits and site/API prices. Model/provider rates and token usage still need separate checks; end-to-end task costs are unknown.
- Credit-purchase fees are separate from inference spend. Taxes, auxiliary search/file parsing, provider region premiums and fallbacks can add costs.
- Data-region routing does not establish purchasing eligibility in a country. Chinese capability, commercial rights, watermark-free output and tasks are unverified; no signup, top-up or model call was made.
- Fee discounts, BYOK allowance and higher limits are contract-specific. No contract or exact amount was obtained. Prepayment, annual-commitment and invoicing descriptions do not establish a uniform annual fee or every plan entitlement.
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Official sources
Sources with the same saved document, review date and validity period are shown together. Expand to see the plans that cite each source. Plan conditions are checked separately; public sources do not establish hands-on task results.