All tasks / Tools
OpenRouter
Cloud API gateway and chat interface giving one key and one bill for 500+ models from 80+ providers.
- OpenRouter
- Cloud
- Free tier · paid plans
Where it ranks
- SChat & assistantsRuntimes & gateways · Cloud · via Gemini 4 Argon
- SSearch & researchSearch APIs & engines · Cloud · via GPT-6.1 Sol
- SWritingRuntimes & gateways · Cloud · via Claude Opus 5.5
- –TranslationAPIs & offline engines · Cloud · no rated model available here yet
- SEmbeddings & retrievalVector databases & engines · Cloud · via Qwen3-Embedding-8B
- SCodingRuntimes & gateways · Cloud · via Claude Opus 5.5
- SImage understandingRuntimes & gateways · Cloud · via Qwen3.8-Max
Tools without a benchmark of their own inherit the tier of the best model they offer.
Facts
- Vendor
- OpenRouter
- Approach
- Runtimes & gateways, Search APIs & engines, APIs & offline engines, Vector databases & engines
- Where it runs
- Cloud only: needs the vendor’s service
- Interface
- Web app, API
- Skill level
- Intermediate: some setup or configuration
- Price
- Free tier · paid plans
- Pricing notes
- Free: 25+ free models, 50 requests/day; Standard is pay-as-you-go with a 5.5% platform fee on 500+ models; Business 8% fee; no monthly subscription.
- Source code
- Closed source
- Last verified
- 18 Oct 2026
Price from openrouter.ai, 18 Oct 2026.
Models it gives you
- SGemini 4 ArgonGoogle · closed
- SClaude Opus 5.5Anthropic · closed
- SClaude Fable 5.1Anthropic · closed
- SGemini 3.8 FlashGoogle · closed
- SMuse Spark 1.3Meta · closed
- SGemini 3.1 Pro (Preview)Google · closed
- SKimi K3Moonshot AI · open weights
- SQwen3-Embedding-8BAlibaba (Qwen) · open weights
- SGPT-6.1 SolOpenAI · closed
- AQwen3.8-MaxAlibaba (Qwen) · closed
- AGLM-5.3Z.ai · open weights
- AGPT-6 AstraOpenAI · closed
- AClaude Sonnet 5.5Anthropic · closed
- AGLM-5.3-FlashZ.ai · open weights
- ADeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813DeepSeek · open weights
- AQwen3.7-PlusAlibaba (Qwen) · closed
- AGemini 3.5 Flash-LiteGoogle · closed
- AGemma 4 (31B)Google DeepMind · open weights
- AMiMo-V2.6-FlashXiaomi · open weights
- AStep 5 PreviewStepFun · open weights
- AGrok 4.7xAI · closed
- AGPT-6 LunaOpenAI · closed
- AMiniMax-M3MiniMax · open weights
- AInklingThinking Machines Lab · open weights
- ALing-3.0-flash-VLinclusionAI · open weights
- AMistral Large 4 (preview)Mistral AI · closed
- AMistral Medium 3.5Mistral AI · open weights
- BGLM-5V-TurboZ.ai · closed
- BSonar ProPerplexity AI · closed
- BSonar Reasoning ProPerplexity AI · closed
- BInkling SmallThinking Machines Lab · open weights
- BClaude Haiku 5.5Anthropic · closed
- Bgpt-oss-120bOpenAI · open weights
- BQwen3.8-2.4T-A95BAlibaba (Qwen) · open weights
- CLlama 4 MaverickMeta · open weights
- CAion 3.5AionLabs · closed
- CQwen3-Coder-NextAlibaba (Qwen) · open weights
- CDevstral 2 (2512)Mistral AI · open weights
- –SonarPerplexity AI · closed
- –Sonar Deep ResearchPerplexity AI · closed
- –Hy-MT2-30B-A3BTencent · open weights
- –bge-m3BAAI · open weights
- –Gemini Embedding 2Google · closed
- –mistral-embed-2312Mistral AI · closed
- –text-embedding-3-largeOpenAI · closed
- –voyage-4-largeVoyage AI (MongoDB) · closed