Glimpse vs OpenRouter

Glimpse

Glimpse reads images and video at $0.60 input and $3.00 output per million tokens, and OpenRouter serves it with tools, structured output and a 262,144-token context. It is a research preview with no public Elorian docs, model card or status page, and Elorian's terms allow training on submitted content unless a paid user opts out.

OpenRouter

Public OpenAPI document, llms.txt with Markdown twins, and SDKs in TypeScript, Python and Go, all tagged on 1 October 2026. No machine payment. USDC top-ups go to a prepaid balance.

Glimpse

1. Call it through OpenRouter as elorian/glimpse at https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions. Elorian's own API docs sit behind a console sign-in
2. Send video as a video_url content part, as a public URL or a base64 data URL. Batch requests are not available for this model
3. Set max_tokens yourself. The endpoint allows up to 256,000 output tokens, and visual reasoning spends many of them
4. Honour Retry-After on 429 and 503. With a single provider, a 503 means the Together deployment is unavailable, not that another host can take over
5. Treat counts and timestamps as unverified. Elorian's terms say outputs need independent human review before anyone relies on them

OpenRouter

1. Set provider.data_collection: "deny" or provider.zdr: true when the prompt holds anything private
2. Pass a models list so a failed provider falls through to the next one
3. Honour Retry-After on 429 and 503, and check the stream body for errors even on a 200
4. Set max_price so a routed request can't land on an expensive provider
5. Free models allow 50 requests a day until $10 of credit has been bought. Check GET /api/v1/key for what's left