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.

OpenRouter comparisons

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ComparisonSample Cost WinnerLarger ContextNewest Release
🔥Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs 🔥Owl AlphaOwl AlphaOwl Alpha
🔥DeepSeek V4 Flash vs 🔥Owl AlphaOwl AlphaOwl Alpha
🔥DeepSeek V4 Pro vs 🔥Owl AlphaOwl AlphaOwl Alpha
🔥Hy3 preview vs 🔥Owl AlphaOwl AlphaOwl Alpha
🔥MiMo-V2.5 vs 🔥Owl AlphaOwl AlphaOwl Alpha
New🔥MiniMax M3 vs 🔥Owl AlphaOwl AlphaOwl Alpha
🔥Owl Alpha vs 🔥Claude Opus 4.7Owl AlphaOwl Alpha
🔥Owl Alpha vs 🔥DeepSeek V3.2Owl AlphaOwl Alpha

Cross-Provider Alternatives

Open alternatives hub

Use this shortlist when OpenRouter is not a hard requirement and your first constraint is workload cost.

AlternativeProviderSample CostInput / 1MOutput / 1MContext
New🔥Nemotron 3 Ultra (free)NVIDIA$0$0$01M
🔥Laguna M.1 (free)Poolside$0$0$0262.14K
Nemotron 3 Super (free)NVIDIA$0$0$01M
gpt-oss-120b (free)OpenAI$0$0$0131.07K
Laguna XS.2 (free)Poolside$0$0$0262.14K
GLM 4.5 Air (free)Z.ai$0$0$0131.07K

OpenRouter model catalog

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ModelPromptOutputContextPopularity
🔥Owl Alpha$0$01.05M#7
Free Models Router$0$0200K