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OpenRouter
openrouter.ai ↗Single-service platform with a pay-as-you-go usage model where costs depend on model-specific token pricing plus a platform fee, with free-plan limits. Enterprise pricing is custom with volume commitments, adding variability but proportionate to the offering’s scope.
model: gpt-5
0🧾
Pricing clarity
A bit fiddly
0🤖
Agent easiness
Agent-friendly
How we scored it 🧮
Every page starts at 100. Each kind of complexity subtracts points — here's the math.
🧾 Pricing clarity
62- Base score+100
- No self-serve pricing — real cost needs a sales call-38
- Total62 / 100
🤖 Agent easiness
85- Base score+100
- Read from raw HTML (no markdown)-15
- Total85 / 100
The pricing tree 🌳
tap any branch to explore💳 Usage-based🪜 3 tiers
The tiers 🪜
Free
Free
- Rate limits50 reqs/day
- Token PricingFree models only
- ✦Chat and API Access
- ✦Activity Logs & Export
- ✦Auto-routing, preferred vendor selections
- ✦Budgets & Spend Controls
- ✦Prompt Caching
- ✦Management API key
- ✦Data Policy-Based Routing
Pay-as-you-go
- Platform Fees5.5% (Fee discounts available)
- Models400+ models
- Providers60+ providers
- BYOK Limits1M free reqs/month, 5% fee after 5M free reqs/month; custom pricing
- Rate limitsHigh global limits
- Token PricingNo minimum spend. Prices based on models
- ✦Chat and API Access
- ✦Activity Logs & Export
- ✦Auto-routing, preferred vendor selections
- ✦Budgets & Spend Controls
- ✦Prompt Caching
- ✦Management API key
- ✦Data Policy-Based Routing
Enterprise
Custom
- Models400+ models
- Providers60+ providers
- Rate limitsOptional dedicated limits
- Token PricingVolume commitments. Prices based on models
- ✦Chat and API Access
- ✦Activity Logs & Export
- ✦Auto-routing, preferred vendor selections
- ✦Budgets & Spend Controls
- ✦Prompt Caching
- ✦Management API key
- ✦Admin Controls
Watch out for 🕵️
- ⚠️Token Pricing: Prices based on models (varying per-model rates)
- ⚠️Platform Fees: 5.5% fee on Pay-as-you-go
- ⚠️BYOK Limits: 1M free reqs/month, 5% fee after 5M free reqs/month; custom pricing
- ⚠️Free plan rate limit: 50 reqs/day (forces overage/migration to paid usage)
- ⚠️Enterprise: Custom pricing with volume commitments (contact-sales gate)