Inference provider · Inference gateway

OpenRouter

Quick answer: One key to route across many LLM providers with price/model discovery.

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One key to route across many LLM providers with price/model discovery.

Skip if

You want claimed 0% markup (Vercel AI Gateway or OrcaRouter) or a direct lab/GPU path with no aggregator.

Who it fits

  • One key to route across many LLM providers with price/model discovery.
  • Builders who start in the browser without a local IDE setup

Pros

Unified interface across many LLMs with model/price discovery — one API key to route prompts to dozens of providers.

Cons

Extra hop and markup vs calling a provider directly; model availability can change without notice.

Facts

Locality:
Cloud-native
Surfaces:
Web
Maturity:
General availability

Agent standards & memory

AGENTS.md: N/ASKILL.md: N/ARules / memory: Single OpenRouter key; model ids in agent config.Pay-as-you-go; some free-tier models.

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