OpenRouter

Provides a unified API gateway that aggregates hundreds of AI models from dozens of providers for text, image, video and audio generation, solving vendor lock-in, price comparison and uptime management. It sells to developers and engineering teams in startups to enterprises building AI applications that need programmatic model access. It is positioned as a marketplace/gateway with distributed infrastructure, provider fallback, edge execution and fine-grained data policies, offered via pay-as-you-go credits with no subscription and OpenAI-compatible API.

Key features

• Unified interface for 500+ models
• Access to 80+ model providers
• Text, image, video and audio generation
• Provider fallback for higher availability
• Edge inference for low latency
• Fine-grained custom data policies
• OpenAI-compatible API
• Pay-as-you-go credits with auto-recharge
• Async video generation API
• MCP server for editor integration