Platform / openrouter

OpenRouter API

An OpenAI-compatible multi-model routing entry point, useful for quickly comparing different providers and open models.

API capabilities

· Unified Chat Completions interface
· Multi-provider routing
· Model price and availability comparison

Recommended use

· Prototyping
· Multi-model A/B testing
· Unified OpenAI-compatible access

Important restrictions

· Free models may be queued or rate limited
· Routing availability depends on upstream providers
· Check model terms before production use

Free tier

· Some models are marked as Free; existing benefit records also include a sign-up credit. Fixed allowances and available models change over time.
· Free limits: Rate limits are applied per model, provider and account policy; fixed daily/monthly allowances are Unknown.
· Credit card: Unknown; refer to the current sign-up flow in the console.
· Sign-up: Requires sign-up and creating an API key.

Benchmark observation

Current public measurement: status Online, latency 38 ms, success rate 100%. These values come directly from the existing platform data and are not duplicated in the content layer.

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