How much does OpenRouter cost?
Usage price from
$5.50/minute
- Free plan
- Yes
- Usage price
- $5.50/minute
- Enterprise
- Contact sales
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In your favor
- Free plan. Free plan with 25+ free models and 4 free providers; free models capped at 20 requests per minute and 50 per day, rising to 1,000 per day after buying at least $10 of credits
- Notice before price changes. Advance notice of fee changes
Watch out for
- Extra usage is billed. BYOK above $25,000 list-price inference per month incurs a 5% fee deducted from credits
How you buy and get started
Self-serve + salesButtons on their site: Get started for free, Get started, Upgrade to Business, Contact sales
- Sign up
- Self-serve sign up and buy credits "Create an account to get started. You can set up an org for your team later."
- Setup
- Not stated
- When sales steps in
- Enterprise features (SSO/SAML, SLAs, managed policy enforcement, private endpoints add-on) require contacting sales "SSO (SAML) and SCIM are available on Enterprise plans; contact sales to enable them."
- Support
- Community support on Free; email support on Standard and Business; dedicated team on Enterprise "Standard and Business use email support, and every plan can use the community Discord."
What OpenRouter does
OpenRouter routes requests to many model providers through a single API and key, with fallback, budget controls and data-policy routing. Users buy credits and pay provider list prices plus a fee on credit purchases (5.5% Standard, 8% Business, negotiated on Enterprise).
- Good for
- Developers, startups, growing teams and enterprises that want one API for many LLMs with fallback, spend controls and privacy routing.
- Channels
- API, Web chat, Dashboard
- Main product
- Unified LLM API gateway and model marketplace
- Also includes
- 500+ models from 80+ providers, OpenAI-compatible API, Provider and model fallbacks, Auto Router, Budgets and spend controls, Data policy-based routing
- Public API
- Yes
- MCP server
- Not stated
- Public API access
Our API is OpenAI‑compatible. Update the base URL and model names; see [Quickstart](/docs/quickstart).
- Long context windowNot stated
- Fine-tuning supportNot stated
- Tool and function calling
If the underlying model supports tools/function calling, you can use it through the same API.
- Image and audio input
Certain Models available through our Service accept image, audio or video Inputs, or generate image, audio or
- SOC 2 compliance
SOC 2 Type II. DPA with SCCs for GDPR programs.
- Zero data retention option
Provider-side retention can be disabled for the account or per request, and Zero Data Retention routing is ava
- VPC or on-prem deploymentNot stated
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Security and your data
| Question | Their answer | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|
| Trains AI on your data? | no | "No. We do not train on your data."pricing |
| HIPAA (signs a BAA) | Not stated | |
| SOC 2 | SOC 2 Type II | "SOC 2 Type II. DPA with SCCs for GDPR programs."enterprise |
| GDPR | DPA with SCCs for GDPR programs | "SOC 2 Type II. DPA with SCCs for GDPR programs."enterprise |
| CCPA | Not stated | |
| PCI | Not stated | |
| ISO 27001 | Not stated | |
| Single sign-on | Enterprise | "SSO (SAML) and SCIM are available on Enterprise plans; contact sales to enable them."pricing |
| Trust center | https://trust.openrouter.ai/ | "[Trust Center](https://trust.openrouter.ai/)"home |
Security answers are the vendor's own claims, quoted. We don't audit them.
Every plan
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | Included | Over the allowance | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | – | – | 25 free models50 requests/day | – | "Free 50 requests/day" |
| Standard% platform fee on credit purchases | $5.50per minute | – | – | – | "Standard 5.5%" |
| Business% platform fee on credit purchases | $8per minute | – | – | – | "Business 8%" |
| Enterprise | Quote | – | – | – | "Enterprise [Fee discounts available](/enterprise/form?ref=pricing-table-platform-fees)" |
Free plan: Free plan with 25+ free models and 4 free providers; free models capped at 20 requests per minute and 50 per day, rising to 1,000 per day after buying at least $10 of credits
Fine print
- Billing increment
- Per token "Pricing is per token whether or not you stream."
- Billed beyond usage
- BYOK above $25,000 list-price inference per month incurs a 5% fee deducted from credits "Above the allowance, OpenRouter charges 5% of what the same request would cost at list price on OpenRouter, deducted from your credits."
- Contract
- No minimums or lock-in on Standard and Business "No. Standard and Business have no minimums and no lock-in. You pay only for what you use."
- Refunds
- Unused credits refundable within 24 hours of purchase; platform fees non-refundable; crypto never refundable "Once purchased, refunds for unused Credits may be requested within twenty-four (24) hours from the time the transaction was processed."
- Auto renew
- Optional auto recharge of credits below a set threshold "When purchasing Credits, you will have the option to automatically add Credits to your account by charging the payment method of your choosing when your available Credits are below"
- Price change notice
- Advance notice of fee changes "If OpenRouter changes the fees for the Service, including by adding additional fees or charges, OpenRouter will provide you advance notice of those changes."
"Not stated" means we read their pricing page and terms and they don't say.
About the company
- Legal name
- OpenRouter, Inc.
- Online since
- Apr 17, 2023 Domain registration date
- Funding
- Raises $113 million, backed by an investment arm of Alphabet "A One-Stop Shop for A.I. Models Raises $113 Million"
- Funding
- Raised $40 million "OpenRouter, a Marketplace for AI Models, Raises $40 Million"
- Customers
- "10M+ global users; 250k+ apps" their claim
- Backing
- "Backed by an investment arm of Alphabet" their words
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Questions
Is OpenRouter free?
Yes. Free plan with 25+ free models and 4 free providers; free models capped at 20 requests per minute and 50 per day, rising to 1,000 per day after buying at least $10 of credits
Does OpenRouter train AI on your data?
No, according to OpenRouter: "No. We do not train on your data."