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OpenRouter
Access text, vision and multimodal models through one API, with shared billing and provider routing.
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Free
Renews every 1 day (calendar period)
Lifetime credit purchases below $10; all free models share 50 requests per day, resetting at 00:00 UTC.
Renews every 1 day (calendar period)
Lifetime credit purchases of at least $10; all free models share 1,000 requests per day, resetting at 00:00 UTC.
20 free-model requests/minute; failures count toward the daily cap.
Paid models deduct from prepaid balance; negative balance also blocks free models.
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Plans and usage
Standard
Feature quotas and conditions
Renews every 1 day (calendar period)
Lifetime credit purchases below $10; all free models share 50 requests per day, resetting at 00:00 UTC.
Renews every 1 day (calendar period)
Lifetime credit purchases of at least $10; all free models share 1,000 requests per day, resetting at 00:00 UTC.
Maximum workspaces per account.
Card top-ups cost 5.5%, minimum $0.80 per purchase; 5 workspaces.
Paid models deduct from prepaid balance; negative balance also blocks free models.
View on official siteBusiness
Feature quotas and conditions
Renews every 1 day (calendar period)
Lifetime credit purchases below $10; all free models share 50 requests per day, resetting at 00:00 UTC.
Renews every 1 day (calendar period)
Lifetime credit purchases of at least $10; all free models share 1,000 requests per day, resetting at 00:00 UTC.
Maximum workspaces per account.
8% on credit purchases; EU/US regional inference; downgrade after 30 days.
Paid models deduct from prepaid balance; negative balance also blocks free models.
View on official siteEnterprise
Feature quotas and conditions
Renews every 1 day (calendar period)
Lifetime credit purchases below $10; all free models share 50 requests per day, resetting at 00:00 UTC.
Renews every 1 day (calendar period)
Lifetime credit purchases of at least $10; all free models share 1,000 requests per day, resetting at 00:00 UTC.
Contact sales for pricing, SSO/SCIM, invoicing and SLA.
Paid models deduct from prepaid balance; negative balance also blocks free models.
View on official siteBuy prepaid credits; model usage, top-up fees and BYOK service fees have separate terms.
Additional credit packs
Business / Enterprise / Standard：Balance remains usable after subscription ends; OpenRouter reserves the right to expire unused credits 365 days after purchase.
| Available plans | Credits | Price | Terms |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business / Enterprise / Standard | 1,000,000 | $10,000.00 / 1,000,000 openrouter_web_search | Model anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6 web_search: USD/search. |
| Business / Enterprise / Standard | 1,000,000 | $1.00 / 1,000,000 openrouter_audio | Model google/gemini-2.5-flash audio: USD/token. |
| Business / Enterprise / Standard | 1,000,000 | $0.30 / 1,000,000 openrouter_image | Model google/gemini-2.5-flash image: USD/image. |
| Business / Enterprise / Standard | 1,000,000 | $0.10 / 1,000,000 openrouter_input_audio_cache | Model google/gemini-2.5-flash input_audio_cache: USD/token. |
| Business / Enterprise / Standard | 1,000,000 | $2.50 / 1,000,000 openrouter_internal_reasoning | Model google/gemini-2.5-flash internal_reasoning: USD/token; reasoning tokens are included in output tokens and are not charged twice. |
| Business / Enterprise / Standard | 1,000,000 | $14,000.00 / 1,000,000 openrouter_web_search | Model google/gemini-2.5-flash web_search: USD/search. |
| Business / Enterprise / Standard | 1,000,000 | $10,000.00 / 1,000,000 openrouter_web_search | Model openai/gpt-5.2 web_search: USD/search. |
| Business / Enterprise / Standard | 1 | $1.00 / credits | Validity: 365 days Purchase $5–$25,000 per transaction; no minimum spending commitment; applicable taxes extra. |
Choose your workflow
Developers who need multiple models, free inference or provider failover.
Sign up to use Chat or create an API key. Set your compatible client’s base URL to https://openrouter.ai/api/v1 and select a full model ID.
AliPay is supported. Model availability depends on your location and the model provider’s terms.
Free
Successful inference billing
IncludedStreaming and nonstreaming token prices match. Failed attempts have no model-token fee; executed search or parsing services can still charge.
Prepaid-credit rules
IncludedCredits cannot transfer between accounts. Configure or cancel auto-top-ups. Promotional credits have no cash value and follow their expiry or the 365-day expiry right; OpenRouter chooses spending order.
Free-model router
Includedopenrouter/free randomly selects available free models matching tools, vision and structured-output requirements; model input/output and router fees are zero.
Model and regional terms
IncludedAge 18+. Model-provider regional and organization rules apply; output licenses follow model terms. Reselling API access or building a competing aggregator is prohibited.
Privacy and data controls
IncludedPrompt/completion storage is off by default; request metadata is retained. Private logs and permission to use content are separate opt-ins; content sharing gives a 1% usage discount.
Reasoning-token billing
IncludedReasoning is billed as output. exclude hides returned reasoning; most providers count reasoning and visible output inside max_tokens.
Unused-credit refunds
IncludedRequest unused-credit refunds within 24 hours after processing; platform fees, crypto and promotional credits are nonrefundable.
Zero-retention inference endpoints
Includedprovider.zdr filters inference endpoints; enabled plugins and tools are outside that scope. Files remain until deletion or account closure.
Standard
Automatic model routing
Includedopenrouter/auto uses task, 7-day market spending, cost and capability signals without a router surcharge; auto-beta uses the separate auto-beta-router plugin.
Successful inference billing
IncludedStreaming and nonstreaming token prices match. Failed attempts have no model-token fee; executed search or parsing services can still charge.
BYOK priority and fallback
IncludedKeys can be prioritized or fallback. Shared capacity uses OpenRouter credits and can be disabled by model or provider.
Prepaid-credit rules
IncludedCredits cannot transfer between accounts. Configure or cancel auto-top-ups. Promotional credits have no cash value and follow their expiry or the 365-day expiry right; OpenRouter chooses spending order.
Free-model router
Includedopenrouter/free randomly selects available free models matching tools, vision and structured-output requirements; model input/output and router fees are zero.
Model and regional terms
IncludedAge 18+. Model-provider regional and organization rules apply; output licenses follow model terms. Reselling API access or building a competing aggregator is prohibited.
Privacy and data controls
IncludedPrompt/completion storage is off by default; request metadata is retained. Private logs and permission to use content are separate opt-ins; content sharing gives a 1% usage discount.
Reasoning-token billing
IncludedReasoning is billed as output. exclude hides returned reasoning; most providers count reasoning and visible output inside max_tokens.
Unused-credit refunds
IncludedRequest unused-credit refunds within 24 hours after processing; platform fees, crypto and promotional credits are nonrefundable.
Provider selection and failover
IncludedDefault price-based load balancing across stable providers; order/sort change that policy; models supplies cross-model fallbacks.
Zero-retention inference endpoints
Includedprovider.zdr filters inference endpoints; enabled plugins and tools are outside that scope. Files remain until deletion or account closure.
Business
Automatic model routing
Includedopenrouter/auto uses task, 7-day market spending, cost and capability signals without a router surcharge; auto-beta uses the separate auto-beta-router plugin.
Successful inference billing
IncludedStreaming and nonstreaming token prices match. Failed attempts have no model-token fee; executed search or parsing services can still charge.
BYOK priority and fallback
IncludedKeys can be prioritized or fallback. Shared capacity uses OpenRouter credits and can be disabled by model or provider.
Prepaid-credit rules
IncludedCredits cannot transfer between accounts. Configure or cancel auto-top-ups. Promotional credits have no cash value and follow their expiry or the 365-day expiry right; OpenRouter chooses spending order.
Downgrade after 30 days
IncludedDowngrade is available 30 days after upgrading to Business.
Free-model router
Includedopenrouter/free randomly selects available free models matching tools, vision and structured-output requirements; model input/output and router fees are zero.
Model and regional terms
IncludedAge 18+. Model-provider regional and organization rules apply; output licenses follow model terms. Reselling API access or building a competing aggregator is prohibited.
Privacy and data controls
IncludedPrompt/completion storage is off by default; request metadata is retained. Private logs and permission to use content are separate opt-ins; content sharing gives a 1% usage discount.
Reasoning-token billing
IncludedReasoning is billed as output. exclude hides returned reasoning; most providers count reasoning and visible output inside max_tokens.
Unused-credit refunds
IncludedRequest unused-credit refunds within 24 hours after processing; platform fees, crypto and promotional credits are nonrefundable.
EU/US regional inference
IncludedRegional endpoints: https://eu.openrouter.ai / https://us.openrouter.ai.
Provider selection and failover
IncludedDefault price-based load balancing across stable providers; order/sort change that policy; models supplies cross-model fallbacks.
Zero-retention inference endpoints
Includedprovider.zdr filters inference endpoints; enabled plugins and tools are outside that scope. Files remain until deletion or account closure.
Enterprise
Automatic model routing
Includedopenrouter/auto uses task, 7-day market spending, cost and capability signals without a router surcharge; auto-beta uses the separate auto-beta-router plugin.
Successful inference billing
IncludedStreaming and nonstreaming token prices match. Failed attempts have no model-token fee; executed search or parsing services can still charge.
BYOK priority and fallback
IncludedKeys can be prioritized or fallback. Shared capacity uses OpenRouter credits and can be disabled by model or provider.
Prepaid-credit rules
IncludedCredits cannot transfer between accounts. Configure or cancel auto-top-ups. Promotional credits have no cash value and follow their expiry or the 365-day expiry right; OpenRouter chooses spending order.
Free-model router
Includedopenrouter/free randomly selects available free models matching tools, vision and structured-output requirements; model input/output and router fees are zero.
Model and regional terms
IncludedAge 18+. Model-provider regional and organization rules apply; output licenses follow model terms. Reselling API access or building a competing aggregator is prohibited.
Privacy and data controls
IncludedPrompt/completion storage is off by default; request metadata is retained. Private logs and permission to use content are separate opt-ins; content sharing gives a 1% usage discount.
Reasoning-token billing
IncludedReasoning is billed as output. exclude hides returned reasoning; most providers count reasoning and visible output inside max_tokens.
Unused-credit refunds
IncludedRequest unused-credit refunds within 24 hours after processing; platform fees, crypto and promotional credits are nonrefundable.
EU/US regional inference
IncludedRegional endpoints: https://eu.openrouter.ai / https://us.openrouter.ai.
Provider selection and failover
IncludedDefault price-based load balancing across stable providers; order/sort change that policy; models supplies cross-model fallbacks.
SLA and invoicing
IncludedSSO / SCIM
IncludedZero-retention inference endpoints
Includedprovider.zdr filters inference endpoints; enabled plugins and tools are outside that scope. Files remain until deletion or account closure.
More capabilities and limits
BYOK service fee · 5 %
Standard/Business BYOK: first $25,000/month of provider list-price inference cost is exempt; 5% above that base; provider inference is billed separately.
Monthly fee-free usage allowance · 25000 USD
Standard/Business BYOK: first $25,000/month of provider list-price inference cost is exempt; 5% above that base; provider inference is billed separately.
Payment processing fee · 8 %
business card credit purchases; percentage of purchase amount, USD.
Refund request window · 1 days
BusinessRequest within 24 hours after processing; unused credits only; platform fees, crypto and promotional credits are nonrefundable.
Refund request window · 1 days
EnterpriseRequest within 24 hours after processing; unused credits only; platform fees, crypto and promotional credits are nonrefundable.
Minimum age · 18 count
Data retention · Prompt/completion content is not stored by default; request metadata is retained. Private logging and content-use opt-ins are separate. Files remain until deletion/account closure; personal data follows business/legal retention.
BYOK service fee · 5 %
Standard/Business BYOK: first $25,000/month of provider list-price inference cost is exempt; 5% above that base; provider inference is billed separately.
Monthly fee-free usage allowance · 25000 USD
Standard/Business BYOK: first $25,000/month of provider list-price inference cost is exempt; 5% above that base; provider inference is billed separately.
Payment processing fee · 5 %
Standard cryptocurrency top-ups, USD; FAQ fee function specifies 5%.
Payment processing fee · 5.5 %
standard card credit purchases; percentage of purchase amount, USD.
Minimum payment processing fee · 0.8 USD
standard card credit purchases; percentage of purchase amount, USD.
Refund request window · 1 days
StandardRequest within 24 hours after processing; unused credits only; platform fees, crypto and promotional credits are nonrefundable.
Models and access
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6
Model ID: anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2
Model ID: deepseek/deepseek-v3.2
Dots Studio: Dots3-Note Preview (free)
Model ID: dots-studio/dots-3-note-preview:free
Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash
Model ID: google/gemini-2.5-flash
LiquidAI: LFM2.5-2.6B (free)
Model ID: liquid/lfm-2.5-2.6b:free
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free)
Model ID: nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning:free
OpenAI: GPT-5.2
Model ID: openai/gpt-5.2
Poolside: Laguna S 2.1 (free)
Model ID: poolside/laguna-s-2.1:free
Model rates
| Model / tier | Input | Cache read | Cache write | Output |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6cache-1h One-hour cache write for this model. | — | — | 6 | — |
| Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6catalog Model ID: anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6 | 3 | 0.3 | 3.75 | 15 |
| DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2catalog Model ID: deepseek/deepseek-v3.2 | 0.259 | 0.14 | — | 0.8 |
| Dots Studio: Dots3-Note Preview (free)catalog Model ID: dots-studio/dots-3-note-preview:free | 0 | — | — | 0 |
| Google: Gemini 2.5 Flashcatalog Model ID: google/gemini-2.5-flash | 0.3 | 0.03 | 0.083333 | 2.5 |
| LiquidAI: LFM2.5-2.6B (free)catalog Model ID: liquid/lfm-2.5-2.6b:free | 0 | — | — | 0 |
| NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free)catalog Model ID: nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning:free | 0 | — | — | 0 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5.2catalog Model ID: openai/gpt-5.2 | 1.75 | 0.175 | — | 14 |
| Poolside: Laguna S 2.1 (free)catalog Model ID: poolside/laguna-s-2.1:free | 0 | — | — | 0 |