OpenRouter
OpenRouter
Unified API platform providing developers access to hundreds of large language models through one endpoint.
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OpenRouter provides a unified API interface for accessing over 300 large language models from more than 60 active providers. It offers better prices, uptime, and no subscriptions, enabling users to access any model through a single, OpenAI-compatible API. The platform serves developers and organizations looking for reliable, cost-effective, and flexible access to a wide range of AI models. Teams look it up for Infrastructure, API Platform, Foundation Model.
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“I have heard a lot about Open Router, and seeing a 70B model on a free plan, vs my local 7-9b model is very tempting. What are the drawbacks? I heard there is a per minute and per day limit right? Do you usually hit it?”
View on Reddit“Omg I'm so happy. Kimi is an amazing model—insane that it's free now.”
View on Reddit“Every time openrouter switches you to a different provider even on the same model it wipes your cache and your whole context is reloaded. I have seen it switch providers every few prompts. Once I locked it down to a specific provider per mo…”
View on Reddit“I started with smaller models (Qwen, Gemma 3.6) but their output was obviously lacking compared to Sonnet. Then I tried heavier models like deepseek v4 Pro, MiniMax 2.7, and GLM 5.1 for planning, with lighter models handling the actual codi…”
View on Reddit“We burned $750 in 3 days on OpenRouter — here's how to avoid our mistake! Everything — main session, cron jobs, subagent spawns — was defaulting to Claude Sonnet 4.6 at $3/M tokens. We didn't set it, didn't realize it, didn't check.”
View on Reddit“The time has come when I need to use several LLM APIs, and managing security keys and different APIs will be a pain. From looking for a solution, everything points to OpenRouter, but I was surprised there is no open source version.”
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