# OpenRouter — Multi-provider model marketplace

Pricing: Pay-per-token passthrough (+small fee)

## Verdict

One API and one bill across hundreds of models from every major lab — the fastest way to arbitrage the model price war and A/B cheaper models without new vendor contracts.

## Strengths

- Instant access to new and cheap models the day they launch
- Automatic fallbacks and price-based routing options
- Transparent per-model pricing tables — useful even if you never route through it

## Limitations

- Adds a small markup and a third party in the request path
- Enterprise data-processing agreements need review for sensitive workloads

Website: https://openrouter.ai

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