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OpenRouter

Hosted model marketplace and router: one API, provider list prices, a fee on credit purchases.

GatewayVendor: OpenRouterLast checked 2026-10-20Not vendor-verified
Hard budgets (team / key / user) (scored)yes
Budgets & spend controls (Standard and up); each API key can carry its own credit cap; workspaces per environment
Rate & spend limits (scored)partial
No plan-based limits on paid models (provider limits pass through); per-key credit caps act as spend limits
Cost attribution / chargeback tags (scored)partial
Per-key and per-workspace activity, logs and export
FOCUS export (scored)no
Activity logs & export; no FOCUS format documented
EU data residency option (scored)yes
EU in-region routing via eu.openrouter.ai on Business and Enterprise
Public pricing (scored)yes
Open sourceno
Hosted service
HostingSaaS
Supported providers / models80+ providers (500+ models)
Cachingpartial
Provider prompt caching (Standard and up); no gateway response cache listed
Pricing modelFee on credit purchases
Public price pointsStandard 5.5% fee on credits; Business 8%; Enterprise discounts; inference at provider list price; BYOK: first $25k/mo list-price inference free, then 5%

"unknown" means we could not confirm it in public sources. Vendors can send evidence to update a cell; see get verified. Verification never changes the scoring rules.