whereismyai
OpenRouter
OpenRouter is an artificial intelligence API interface that routes prompts across multiple models and providers.
OpenRouter provides a unified interface for every major artificial intelligence model. It allows developers to find the best models and prices for their prompts through a single API and a single bill. The platform supports over 500 active models across more than 80 providers, including Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic. Users buy credits to use with any model or provider without subscriptions. It features automatic model routing, model fallbacks, and full OpenAI compatibility for easy migration.
OpenRouter at a glance
- Best for: Software engineer
- Runs on: Web, API
- Pricing: Free, Standard, Business, and Enterprise plans available with pay-as-you-go credit billing.
- Released: May 2023
- Category: AI coding tool
- Website: openrouter.ai
Key features
- Unified API for over 500 models
- Integration with over 80 providers
- Model routing and fallbacks
- Fully OpenAI compatible API requests
- Credit-based pay-as-you-go billing
- Organization and team management
Use it for
- Building applications with multiple AI models
- Routing support questions to inexpensive models
- Migrating from OpenAI or Anthropic
Companions
Tools that articles about OpenRouter recommend using with it, each with its job.
- Context7 — Provides up-to-date documentation for AI agents and code editors.
- Ollama — Run local models at zero marginal cost, with code kept on your machine.
- Daytona — Runs sessions in isolated sandboxes synced to git branches.
- Composio — Equips AI agents with tools, managed user auth, and sandboxes across 1,500+ apps
- Oh My OpenCode Slim — Lightweight multi-agent orchestration and background tasks.
Companion to
Tools whose articles name OpenRouter as a companion, each with its job for them.
Alternatives to OpenRouter
- OpenCode — Works with 75+ model providers, local models, and existing subscriptions
- OrcaRouter — Route requests to the best models without paying token markups.
- OmniRoute — Routes requests across 352 providers with automatic fallback and cost-based selection.
- New API — Unifies access to 30 plus AI providers with intelligent routing and cost control.
- FreeLLMAPI — Accesses hundreds of free LLM models and billions of tokens through one API key.
- OpenChamber — Run and review multi-model AI coding agents from desktop, browser, and mobile devices.
- GoRoute — Consumes 5.1MB of RAM with sub-10ms latency for coding agents.
- OpenLLM — Routes developer tools through multiple providers and local models with included inference.
- OpenSandbox — Provides isolated environments with multi-language SDKs and lifecycle management.
- RouterHub — Compare prices and access multiple models through one prepaid API key.
- OpenUI Standard — Renders generative UI three times faster with sixty-seven percent fewer tokens than JSON.
- FastRouter.ai — Optimizes AI cost and reliability across 200+ models with zero model markup.
All OpenRouter alternatives