- Owl Alpha — $0 sample workload
- Free Models Router — $0 sample workload
OpenRouter LLM API Models & Pricing
Browse OpenRouter LLM API models with normalized prompt pricing, output pricing, context windows, release dates, and popularity signals.
2Models tracked
2Priced models
1Popular models
0Latest releases
Provider shortlist
Use OpenRouter as a model-level shortlist, not a single default choice.
Start from the cost, context, and popularity picks below, then open the model pages or head-to-head comparisons before choosing an API.
Cost pick
Owl Alpha
$0 sample workload
Context pick
Owl Alpha
1.05M context window
Popular pick
Owl Alpha
#7 popularity signal
When to avoid
Verify model fit
Do not choose by provider name alone. Compare model-level input price, output price, context window, release timing, and current availability before production use.
- Owl Alpha — 1.05M
- Free Models Router — 200K
OpenRouter comparisons
Search OpenRouter comparisons| Comparison | Sample Cost Winner | Larger Context | Newest Release |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🔥Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs 🔥Owl Alpha | Owl Alpha | Owl Alpha | |
| 🔥DeepSeek V4 Flash vs 🔥Owl Alpha | Owl Alpha | Owl Alpha | |
| 🔥DeepSeek V4 Pro vs 🔥Owl Alpha | Owl Alpha | Owl Alpha | |
| 🔥Hy3 preview vs 🔥Owl Alpha | Owl Alpha | Owl Alpha | |
| 🔥MiMo-V2.5 vs 🔥Owl Alpha | Owl Alpha | Owl Alpha | |
| New🔥MiniMax M3 vs 🔥Owl Alpha | Owl Alpha | Owl Alpha | |
| 🔥Owl Alpha vs 🔥Claude Opus 4.7 | Owl Alpha | Owl Alpha | |
| 🔥Owl Alpha vs 🔥DeepSeek V3.2 | Owl Alpha | Owl Alpha |
Cross-Provider Alternatives
Open alternatives hubUse this shortlist when OpenRouter is not a hard requirement and your first constraint is workload cost.
| Alternative | Provider | Sample Cost | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New🔥Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) | NVIDIA | $0 | $0 | $0 | 1M |
| 🔥Laguna M.1 (free) | Poolside | $0 | $0 | $0 | 262.14K |
| Nemotron 3 Super (free) | NVIDIA | $0 | $0 | $0 | 1M |
| gpt-oss-120b (free) | OpenAI | $0 | $0 | $0 | 131.07K |
| Laguna XS.2 (free) | Poolside | $0 | $0 | $0 | 262.14K |
| GLM 4.5 Air (free) | Z.ai | $0 | $0 | $0 | 131.07K |
OpenRouter model catalog
Browse all models| Model | Prompt | Output | Context | Popularity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🔥Owl Alpha | $0 | $0 | 1.05M | #7 |
| Free Models Router | $0 | $0 | 200K |