OpenRouter is a user-friendly platform that gives you instant access to hundreds of leading AI language models (LLMs) from over 60 providers, all through a single website and API. With OpenRouter, you don’t need technical expertise or multiple accounts—just sign up and start using advanced AI like GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, and many more with easy credit-based payments. OpenRouter intelligently matches your needs to the best model, keeps your costs low, and ensures fast, reliable results, whether you want to chat, generate content, or build with AI.
Key Features
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Unified Model Access: Use over 400 AI models from providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, and more, all in one place.
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Flexible API & Web Interface: Integrate AI into your app using a simple, OpenAI-compatible API, or interact with models directly through the website.
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Intelligent Routing & Fallback: Automatically switches to the best or fastest model based on your preferences—no interruptions if one provider is down.
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Transparent, Cost-Effective Billing: Single account for all usage, credits work across all models, and tools to help you optimize for lower costs.
Use Cases
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Instantly try, compare, and switch between the latest AI models for chat, writing, summarization, and more—even with zero coding.
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Build your own AI-powered app or workflow—developers can swap models easily without changing their code.
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Manage team or organizational AI usage with consolidated billing, usage analytics, and fine-grained data controls.
Technical Specifications
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OpenAI-Compatible API: Fully supports the popular /v1/chat/completions endpoint, making integration seamless for developers.
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Fast, Reliable Infrastructure: Globally distributed servers and edge computing keep average response times under 2 seconds, adding just ~25ms extra latency.
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Advanced Routing & Controls: Choose models by cost, speed, or specialty, set fallback strategies, and use your own API keys for extra flexibility.
