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OAuth PKCE lets an app get a key on a user's behalf.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "No markup on tokens. The fee is on credit top-ups, 5.5% by card ($0.80 minimum) and 5% in crypto, 8% on Business. Bring your own key free up to $25,000 a month, then 5%. 25+ free models at 20 requests a minute and 50 a day, 1,000 a day after a $10 purchase (https://openrouter.ai/pricing).", "priceSummary": "5.5% fee", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Credits can be bought in USDC through Coinbase, but requests are paid from a prepaid balance, not per call.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 226, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-26" }, "docsUrl": "https://openrouter.ai/docs", "rateLimitsUrl": "https://openrouter.ai/docs/api_reference/limits", "llmsTxt": "https://openrouter.ai/docs/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://openrouter.ai/docs/openapi/openapi.yaml", "capabilities": [ "inference.llm", "inference.router" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "router", "free-tier", "no-card", "openapi", "llms-txt", "crypto-topup" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-01", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 68.5, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 214, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1010, "categoryRank": 6, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 85, "maintenance": 84, "payments": 40, "reliability": 55, "schema": 90, "security": 60, "transparency": 71 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "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.", "bestFor": "Agents that need many models behind one key, provider failover and a hard price ceiling per request.", "strengths": [ "Public OpenAPI document, llms.txt with Markdown twins, and SDKs in TypeScript, Python and Go, all tagged on 1 October 2026", "Per-request routing controls, fallback `models` lists, provider ordering, `zdr` and `max_price`", "429, 503 and some 402 responses carry `Retry-After`, and the SDKs honour it", "OpenRouter stores no prompts or responses unless you opt in", "Free models with no card, and Management API keys for minting and rotating keys in code" ], "weaknesses": [ "No machine payment. USDC top-ups go to a prepaid balance", "`data_collection` defaults to 'allow', which admits providers that may store and train on prompts", "Mid-stream failures arrive inside a 200 response, and upstream providers may charge for prompt processing on a failed call", "No published SLA, and the status page gave us no readable history", "API changelog silent since 19 August 2026" ], "agentNotes": [ "Set `provider.data_collection: \"deny\"` or `provider.zdr: true` when the prompt holds anything private", "Pass a `models` list so a failed provider falls through to the next one", "Honour `Retry-After` on 429 and 503, and check the stream body for errors even on a 200", "Set `max_price` so a routed request can't land on an expensive provider", "Free models allow 50 requests a day until $10 of credit has been bought. Check `GET /api/v1/key` for what's left" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 68.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 85, "maintenance": 84, "payments": 40, "reliability": 55, "schema": 90, "security": 60, "transparency": 55 }, "provenanceScore": 86 }, "connect": { "install": "npm i @openrouter/sdk # or any OpenAI client with base URL https://openrouter.ai/api/v1", "http": "curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY\" -H \"content-type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"models\":[\"anthropic/claude-opus-5-5\",\"openai/gpt-6-sol\"],\"provider\":{\"zdr\":true},\"messages\":[{\"role\":\"user\",\"content\":\"hello\"}]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.llm", "tool": "https://letme.dev/openrouter" }, "area": "models", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Card top-up fee", "unit": "pct", "usd": 5.5, "note": "$0.80 minimum" }, { "item": "Crypto top-up fee", "unit": "pct", "usd": 5 }, { "item": "Bring your own key over $25,000 a month", "unit": "pct", "usd": 5 } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "OpenRouter, Inc.", "domain": "openrouter.ai", "domainRegistered": "2023-04-17", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://openrouter.ai/terms", "privacy": "https://openrouter.ai/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.openrouter.ai", "changelog": "https://openrouter.ai/docs/changelog", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-09-26", "score": 86 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openrouter.json", "live": { "slug": "openrouter", "probe": { "target": "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-14T01:19:51.71283967Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 135, 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"probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 14, "ok": 14 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.openrouter.ai", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T01:11:11.004726659Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "OpenRouterTeam/typescript-sdk", "version": "v1.4.25", "released": "2026-10-06", "seenAt": "2026-10-13T23:15:18.105768168Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@openrouter/sdk", "version": "1.4.25", "seenAt": "2026-10-13T23:15:17.081749736Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "openrouter", "version": "1.3.47", "released": "2026-10-13", "seenAt": "2026-10-13T23:15:17.988892507Z" } ], "githubStars": 263, "npmWeekly": 860510, "pypiWeekly": 491135, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://openrouter.ai/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2027-08-12T00:00:00.000Z", "checkedAt": "2026-10-13T15:45:29.264424573Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://openrouter.ai/docs/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-13T14:12:15.555900526Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "openrouter.ai", "registered": "2023-04-17", "source": "https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/domain/openrouter.ai", "checkedAt": "2026-10-11T13:26:38.23800535Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://openrouter.ai/docs/changelog", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-13T20:20:21.450368195Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-10T19:07:01.411136467Z", "fingerprint": "62c469936385" }, { "url": "https://openrouter.ai/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-13T20:20:23.808669509Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-03T15:34:30.960156372Z", "fingerprint": "e35cc85a871d" }, { "url": "https://openrouter.ai/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-13T20:20:25.599341135Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-11T19:31:17.428381916Z", "fingerprint": "0777fbbbb528" }, { "url": "https://openrouter.ai/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-13T20:20:27.754670897Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-11T19:31:19.465320152Z", "fingerprint": "0b340f4229ba" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-14T01:19:51.71283967Z" } }, "answer": "OpenRouter scores 68.5 (B) on agent readiness against RouterPlus's 51.2 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories.", "b": { "slug": "routerplus", "name": "RouterPlus", "vendor": "RouterPlus", "vendorUrl": "https://routerplus.com", "kind": "router", "category": "inference", "summary": "RouterPlus is an LLM gateway that puts Claude, GPT and decision models behind one API key and a prepaid balance, with OpenAI-compatible and Anthropic-compatible endpoints at the providers' list prices.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/routerplus", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/routerplus.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/routerplus.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/routerplus.json", "license": "Closed service. No terms of service for the gateway were found on routerplus.com or app.routerplus.com on 13 October 2026. The only terms on the site govern the capacity request form and name EVO HQ Inc, a Delaware corporation (https://routerplus.com/capacity/terms/).", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.routerplus.com/v1", "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "A `tm_vk_` virtual key, sent as `Authorization: Bearer` or `x-api-key` on every route. A person signs up in the browser through Clerk with email verification, and the first key is shown once after sign-in. More keys come from the console or from `POST /api/identity/keys` with a console session. The programmatic signup route `POST /v1/signup` was removed and returns 404 (https://app.routerplus.com/docs/authentication.md, https://app.routerplus.com/docs/api-signup.md).", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Provider list prices per 1M tokens with no markup, paid from prepaid credits. Purchases start at $10, and RouterPlus matches the first $100 of purchases for eligible accounts. Signup adds no free credit. Inference through the caller's own provider keys (BYOK) carries no RouterPlus charge and needs no credit. Prices are public at https://app.routerplus.com/api/models.json (https://app.routerplus.com/docs/pricing.md).", "priceSummary": "0% fee", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in https://app.routerplus.com/llms-full.txt, checked 13 October 2026. Calls draw on a prepaid balance bought in the console's Billing page.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-13" }, "docsUrl": "https://app.routerplus.com/docs/overview", "llmsTxt": "https://app.routerplus.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "inference.router", "inference.llm", "inference.decision", "image.generate" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "router", "closed-source", "usage-priced", "prepaid", "llms-txt", "openai-compatible", "anthropic-compatible", "streaming" ], "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 51.2, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 777, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1010, "categoryRank": 17, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 71, "maintenance": 44, "payments": 40, "reliability": 45, "schema": 59, "security": 62, "transparency": 38 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-13" }, "negative": -2, "negativeNotes": [ "Misleading claim, seen 13 October 2026. The banner on https://routerplus.com/ reads \"Try RouterPlus with free credits\" and links to the playground, while the quickstart (https://app.routerplus.com/docs/quickstart.md) says \"Signup does not add free credit\" and the playground bills the organisation's credits (https://app.routerplus.com/docs/playground.md). Only an invitation link adds credit. -2." ], "verdict": "The docs are written for agents, every model price is public, and each response carries its own cost. No terms of service, privacy policy, status page or changelog were found. Signup adds no free credit, and the chat catalogue is Claude and GPT only.", "bestFor": "Teams that call Claude and GPT models from one key and want the cost of every call in the response, with their own provider keys where they have them.", "strengths": [ "llms.txt, llms-full.txt and a Markdown copy of every page, with an integration guide written for coding agents", "Every billed response carries `usage.cost` in USD, and `GET /v1/generation` lists each attempt behind a request", "Any chat model answers on both the OpenAI-compatible and Anthropic-compatible surfaces, with the format translated by the gateway", "Typed errors with a stable `error_type`, an origin header, and `retry-after` on rate-limit 429s", "The gateway stores no prompt or completion content for ordinary accounts, and BYOK inference carries no RouterPlus charge" ], "weaknesses": [ "No terms of service, privacy policy, status page, changelog or security.txt found for the gateway", "The chat catalogue on 13 October 2026 was nine Claude and ten GPT models, all marked as retained by the provider with no ZDR", "Signup adds no free credit, purchases start at $10, and keys stay at 20 requests a minute until the first purchase", "No idempotency keys, no batch route and no embeddings, and the `zdr` and `regions` filters remove every marketplace route", "Optimize, the eval-based model search the homepage leads with, is paused" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send `max_tokens` on every request. Without it the balance hold assumes up to 32,768 output tokens and can return `insufficient_quota` on a small balance", "Switch on `error_type`. Retry `rate_limit` after `retry-after`, and stop on `insufficient_quota`, which needs a person to add credit or raise a cap", "Don't add a retry loop on top of the SDK's. There is no idempotency key, so a retry that reaches a provider is billed again", "Copy model ids from `GET /v1/models` or /api/models.json. An unknown id is a 404 and the gateway never substitutes one", "Use `/v1/messages` for Claude when you need `thinking` or server tools, and `/v1/chat/completions` with `response_format` only for GPT ids" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 51.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 71, "maintenance": 44, "payments": 40, "reliability": 45, "schema": 59, "security": 62, "transparency": 26 }, "provenanceScore": 50 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -N https://api.routerplus.com/v1/chat/completions \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $TM_API_KEY\" \\\n -H \"content-type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"model\":\"claude-haiku-4-5\",\"stream\":true,\"max_tokens\":60,\"messages\":[{\"role\":\"user\",\"content\":\"hello\"}]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.router", "tool": "https://letme.dev/routerplus" }, "area": "models", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Markup on provider token prices", "unit": "pct", "usd": 0, "note": "Pass-through per the pricing docs. Credits are bought in $10 steps or more" }, { "item": "Claude Opus 5.5 input", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 4, "note": "claude-opus-5-5, served by Anthropic's API" }, { "item": "Claude Opus 5.5 output", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 20 }, { "item": "GPT-6.1 Sol input", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 2, "note": "gpt-6.1-sol, served by OpenAI's API, 1,050,000-token context" }, { "item": "GPT-6.1 Sol output", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 10 }, { "item": "Anthropic web search server tool", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 10, "note": "$10 per 1,000 searches, Anthropic's price, on top of tokens" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "EVO HQ Inc", "domain": "routerplus.com", "domainRegistered": "2014-04-15", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-13", "notes": [ "EVO HQ Inc, a Delaware corporation, is named only in the terms of the capacity request form at https://routerplus.com/capacity/terms/, which govern form submissions and not the gateway. The footer elsewhere reads © 2026 RouterPlus.", "No terms of service or privacy policy for the gateway were found. /terms, /privacy and /legal/terms answer 404 on both hosts, the signup page links neither, and the footer's Privacy and Security links open an email to founders@evo-hq.com. The docs' data policy page (https://app.routerplus.com/docs/data-policy.md) is the only data statement for the gateway.", "No status page. Model pages such as https://app.routerplus.com/models/claude-haiku-4-5 show per-provider uptime over the last 24 hours, with no incident history. A request to status.routerplus.com failed at our proxy with a 502, so whether it exists is unchecked.", "No changelog found. /changelog and /docs/changelog.md answer 404, and the blog's newest post is dated 13 August 2026.", "routerplus.com/.well-known/security.txt and app.routerplus.com/.well-known/security.txt answer 404.", "RDAP gives 15 April 2014 as the registration date of routerplus.com and 2 October 2026 as its last change, so the registration may predate the current owner." ], "score": 50 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/routerplus.json", "live": { "slug": "routerplus", "probe": { "target": "https://api.routerplus.com/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-14T01:19:55.653579676Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 638, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 645, "p95ms24h": 1293, "samples24h": 18, "samples30d": 18, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-13", "probes": 4, "ok": 4 }, { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 14, "ok": 14 } ] }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-14T01:19:55.653579676Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "Model router", "b": "Model router", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "OpenRouter", "b": "RouterPlus", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1", "b": "https://api.routerplus.com/v1", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Pay per use", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Apache-2.0 (SDKs)", "b": "Closed service. No terms of service for the gateway were found on routerplus.com or app.routerplus.com on 13 October 2026. The only terms on the site govern the capacity request form and name EVO HQ Inc, a Delaware corporation (https://routerplus.com/capacity/terms/).", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-01", "b": "none", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-08-31", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-08-31", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "226 stars", "b": "none", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "3/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "OpenRouter scores 68.5 (B) on agent readiness against RouterPlus's 51.2 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, OpenRouter or RouterPlus?" }, { "answer": "Both need an API key.", "question": "Do OpenRouter and RouterPlus need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. OpenRouter has a hosted endpoint at https://openrouter.ai/api/v1 and RouterPlus at https://api.routerplus.com/v1.", "question": "Can an agent call OpenRouter and RouterPlus without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 55 against 45", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 90 against 59", "Agent ergonomics, 85 against 71", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 84 against 44", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 71 against 38" ], "also": [ "Free to start without a card" ], "goodFor": "Agents that need many models behind one key, provider failover and a hard price ceiling per request.", "slug": "openrouter", "watchFor": "No machine payment. USDC top-ups go to a prepaid balance" }, { "aheadOn": null, "also": null, "goodFor": "Teams that call Claude and GPT models from one key and want the cost of every call in the response, with their own provider keys where they have them.", "slug": "routerplus", "watchFor": "No terms of service, privacy policy, status page, changelog or security.txt found for the gateway" } ], "job": { "capability": "inference.llm", "name": "LLM inference" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-openrouter.json", "title": "Claude API vs OpenRouter", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-openrouter" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-routerplus.json", "title": "Claude API vs RouterPlus", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-routerplus" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blockrun-ai-vs-openrouter.json", "title": "BlockRun.AI vs OpenRouter", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blockrun-ai-vs-openrouter" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blockrun-ai-vs-routerplus.json", "title": "BlockRun.AI vs RouterPlus", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blockrun-ai-vs-routerplus" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-openrouter.json", "title": "Cloudflare AI Gateway vs OpenRouter", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-openrouter" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-routerplus.json", "title": "Cloudflare AI Gateway vs RouterPlus", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-routerplus" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-openrouter.json", "title": "Cloudflare Workers AI vs OpenRouter", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-openrouter" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-routerplus.json", "title": "Cloudflare Workers AI vs RouterPlus", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-routerplus" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-chat-vs-openrouter.json", "title": "Cohere Chat API (Command models) vs OpenRouter", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-chat-vs-openrouter" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-chat-vs-routerplus.json", "title": "Cohere Chat API (Command models) vs RouterPlus", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-chat-vs-routerplus" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepinfra-vs-openrouter.json", "title": "DeepInfra vs OpenRouter", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepinfra-vs-openrouter" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepinfra-vs-routerplus.json", "title": "DeepInfra vs RouterPlus", "url": 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openrouter-vs-prism-inference" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openrouter-vs-sambanova.json", "title": "OpenRouter vs SambaCloud", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openrouter-vs-sambanova" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openrouter-vs-siliconflow.json", "title": "OpenRouter vs SiliconFlow", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openrouter-vs-siliconflow" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openrouter-vs-stepfun-api.json", "title": "OpenRouter vs StepFun API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openrouter-vs-stepfun-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prism-inference-vs-routerplus.json", "title": "Prism Inference vs RouterPlus", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prism-inference-vs-routerplus" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/routerplus-vs-sambanova.json", "title": "RouterPlus vs SambaCloud", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/routerplus-vs-sambanova" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/routerplus-vs-siliconflow.json", "title": "RouterPlus vs SiliconFlow", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/routerplus-vs-siliconflow" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/routerplus-vs-stepfun-api.json", "title": "RouterPlus vs StepFun API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/routerplus-vs-stepfun-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-openrouter.json", "title": "Antseed vs OpenRouter", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-openrouter" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-routerplus.json", "title": "Antseed vs RouterPlus", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-routerplus" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 10, "edge": "openrouter", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "openrouter": 55, "routerplus": 45, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 31, "edge": "openrouter", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "openrouter": 90, "routerplus": 59, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 14, "edge": "openrouter", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "openrouter": 85, "routerplus": 71, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 2, "edge": "routerplus", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "openrouter": 60, "routerplus": 62, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 0, "edge": "", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "openrouter": 40, "routerplus": 40, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 40, "edge": "openrouter", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "openrouter": 84, "routerplus": 44, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 33, "edge": "openrouter", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "openrouter": 71, "routerplus": 38, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "OpenRouter scores 68.5 (B) on agent readiness against RouterPlus's 51.2 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do llm inference.", "verdicts": { "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.", "routerplus": "The docs are written for agents, every model price is public, and each response carries its own cost. No terms of service, privacy policy, status page or changelog were found. Signup adds no free credit, and the chat catalogue is Claude and GPT only." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openrouter-vs-routerplus", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openrouter-vs-routerplus.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openrouter-vs-routerplus.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openrouter-vs-routerplus.min.md" }, "markdown": "OpenRouter scores 68.5 (B) on agent readiness against RouterPlus's 51.2 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do llm inference.\n\n- OpenRouter: grade B, 68.5/100, rank #214 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openrouter.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/openrouter.json\n- RouterPlus: grade D, 51.2/100, rank #777 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/routerplus.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/routerplus.json\n- Best model APIs and inference for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/inference/index.md\n- All 190 models comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inference/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### OpenRouter (B)\n\nGood for: Agents that need many models behind one key, provider failover and a hard price ceiling per request.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 55 against 45\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 90 against 59\n- Agent ergonomics, 85 against 71\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 84 against 44\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 71 against 38\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: No machine payment. USDC top-ups go to a prepaid balance\n\n### RouterPlus (D)\n\nGood for: Teams that call Claude and GPT models from one key and want the cost of every call in the response, with their own provider keys where they have them.\n\nWatch for: No terms of service, privacy policy, status page, changelog or security.txt found for the gateway\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | OpenRouter | RouterPlus | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 55 | 45 | OpenRouter +10 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 90 | 59 | OpenRouter +31 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 85 | 71 | OpenRouter +14 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 60 | 62 | RouterPlus +2 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 40 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 84 | 44 | OpenRouter +40 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 71 | 38 | OpenRouter +33 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -2 | |\n| **Total** | | **68.5 · B** | **51.2 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | OpenRouter | RouterPlus |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model router | Model router |\n| Vendor | OpenRouter | RouterPlus |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://openrouter.ai/api/v1` | `https://api.routerplus.com/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 (SDKs) | Closed service. No terms of service for the gateway were found on routerplus.com or app.routerplus.com on 13 October 2026. The only terms on the site govern the capacity request form and name EVO HQ Inc, a Delaware corporation (https://routerplus.com/capacity/terms/). |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-01 | none |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-08-31 | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-08-31 | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | |\n| Popularity | 226 stars | none |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**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.\n\n**RouterPlus.** The docs are written for agents, every model price is public, and each response carries its own cost. No terms of service, privacy policy, status page or changelog were found. Signup adds no free credit, and the chat catalogue is Claude and GPT only.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### OpenRouter\n\n1. Set `provider.data_collection: \"deny\"` or `provider.zdr: true` when the prompt holds anything private\n2. Pass a `models` list so a failed provider falls through to the next one\n3. Honour `Retry-After` on 429 and 503, and check the stream body for errors even on a 200\n4. Set `max_price` so a routed request can't land on an expensive provider\n5. Free models allow 50 requests a day until $10 of credit has been bought. Check `GET /api/v1/key` for what's left\n\n### RouterPlus\n\n1. Send `max_tokens` on every request. Without it the balance hold assumes up to 32,768 output tokens and can return `insufficient_quota` on a small balance\n2. Switch on `error_type`. Retry `rate_limit` after `retry-after`, and stop on `insufficient_quota`, which needs a person to add credit or raise a cap\n3. Don't add a retry loop on top of the SDK's. There is no idempotency key, so a retry that reaches a provider is billed again\n4. Copy model ids from `GET /v1/models` or /api/models.json. An unknown id is a 404 and the gateway never substitutes one\n5. Use `/v1/messages` for Claude when you need `thinking` or server tools, and `/v1/chat/completions` with `response_format` only for GPT ids\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, OpenRouter or RouterPlus?\n\nOpenRouter scores 68.5 (B) on agent readiness against RouterPlus's 51.2 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories.\n\n### Do OpenRouter and RouterPlus need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call OpenRouter and RouterPlus without installing anything?\n\nYes. OpenRouter has a hosted endpoint at https://openrouter.ai/api/v1 and RouterPlus at https://api.routerplus.com/v1.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openrouter-vs-routerplus.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openrouter-vs-routerplus.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"openrouter\", \"b\": \"routerplus\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare openrouter routerplus`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/openrouter.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/routerplus.json\n\n## Other comparisons with OpenRouter or RouterPlus\n\n- [Claude API vs OpenRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-openrouter.md)\n- [Claude API vs RouterPlus](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-routerplus.md)\n- [BlockRun.AI vs OpenRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blockrun-ai-vs-openrouter.md)\n- [BlockRun.AI vs RouterPlus](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blockrun-ai-vs-routerplus.md)\n- [Cloudflare AI Gateway vs OpenRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-openrouter.md)\n- [Cloudflare AI Gateway vs RouterPlus](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-routerplus.md)\n- [Cloudflare Workers AI vs OpenRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-openrouter.md)\n- [Cloudflare Workers AI vs RouterPlus](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-routerplus.md)\n- [Cohere Chat API (Command models) vs OpenRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-chat-vs-openrouter.md)\n- [Cohere Chat API (Command models) vs RouterPlus](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-chat-vs-routerplus.md)\n- [DeepInfra vs OpenRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepinfra-vs-openrouter.md)\n- [DeepInfra vs RouterPlus](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepinfra-vs-routerplus.md)\n- [DeepSeek API vs OpenRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-api-vs-openrouter.md)\n- [DeepSeek API vs RouterPlus](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-api-vs-routerplus.md)\n- [Gemini Developer API vs OpenRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-openrouter.md)\n- [Gemini Developer API vs RouterPlus](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-routerplus.md)\n- [GroqCloud vs OpenRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/groq-vs-openrouter.md)\n- [GroqCloud vs RouterPlus](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/groq-vs-routerplus.md)\n- [Meta Model API vs OpenRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/meta-model-api-vs-openrouter.md)\n- [Meta Model API vs RouterPlus](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/meta-model-api-vs-routerplus.md)\n- [Mistral AI API vs OpenRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mistral-api-vs-openrouter.md)\n- [Mistral AI API vs RouterPlus](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mistral-api-vs-routerplus.md)\n- [Novita AI vs OpenRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/novita-ai-vs-openrouter.md)\n- [Novita AI vs RouterPlus](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/novita-ai-vs-routerplus.md)\n- [OpenAI API vs OpenRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-api-vs-openrouter.md)\n- [OpenAI API vs RouterPlus](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-api-vs-routerplus.md)\n- [OpenRouter vs Prism Inference](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openrouter-vs-prism-inference.md)\n- [OpenRouter vs SambaCloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openrouter-vs-sambanova.md)\n- [OpenRouter vs SiliconFlow](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openrouter-vs-siliconflow.md)\n- [OpenRouter vs StepFun API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openrouter-vs-stepfun-api.md)\n- [Prism Inference vs RouterPlus](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prism-inference-vs-routerplus.md)\n- [RouterPlus vs SambaCloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/routerplus-vs-sambanova.md)\n- [RouterPlus vs SiliconFlow](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/routerplus-vs-siliconflow.md)\n- [RouterPlus vs StepFun API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/routerplus-vs-stepfun-api.md)\n- [Antseed vs OpenRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-openrouter.md)\n- [Antseed vs RouterPlus](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-routerplus.md)\n", "meta": { "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)", "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/", "generatedAt": "2026-10-14", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/", "methodology": "0.4", "openapi": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/openapi.json", "preview": false, "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run" }, "page": { "breadcrumbs": [ { "name": "Home", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/" }, { "name": "Compare", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/" }, { "name": "OpenRouter vs RouterPlus", "url": "" } ], "description": "OpenRouter scores 68.5 (B) to RouterPlus's 51.2 (D) for llm inference. 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