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
0Popular 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 No current pick No popular models are available.
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
Aion-3.0 vs Owl AlphaOwl AlphaOwl Alpha
Aion-3.0-Mini vs Owl AlphaOwl AlphaOwl Alpha
Claude Fable 5 (batch) vs Owl AlphaOwl AlphaOwl Alpha
Claude Fable 5 vs Owl AlphaOwl AlphaOwl Alpha
Claude Fable Latest vs Owl AlphaOwl AlphaOwl Alpha
Claude Opus 4.7 (Fast) vs Owl AlphaOwl AlphaOwl Alpha
Claude Opus 4.8 (batch) vs Owl AlphaOwl AlphaOwl Alpha
Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast) vs Owl AlphaOwl 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🔥Ox Alphastealth$0$0$01.05M
🔥Nemotron 3 Ultra (free)NVIDIA$0$0$01M
🔥Laguna S 2.1 (free)Poolside$0$0$0262.14K
New🔥Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free)NVIDIA$0$0$01M
NewDots3-Note Preview (free)Dots Studio$0$0$0512K
NewLFM2.5-2.6B (free)LiquidAI$0$0$065.54K

OpenRouter model catalog

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