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One API for hundreds of LLMs from many providers.

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CategoryAPIs & Model Platforms
Websiteopenrouter.ai
StatusEstablished tool
Alternatives6 on PickAI

What is OpenRouter?

OpenRouter is an AI tool in the APIs & Model Platforms category on PickAI. One API for hundreds of LLMs from many providers. Model APIs and infra to build AI products.

Who is OpenRouter for?

OpenRouter is a good fit for developers building AI features into their own products. If you are comparing options, look at how it fits your workflow, pricing on the official website, and the alternatives below such as OpenAI API, Anthropic API, Google AI Studio.

OpenRouter in the news

Meta AI Research

Meta releases Muse Spark Open weights

Meta released Muse Spark Open, an 816B-parameter open-weight multimodal model (42B active) with a 1M-token context window for coding and agents. Weights are on Hugging Face; hosted APIs include OpenRouter, Groq and others, and it can run on two Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios via MLX.

2026-10-15
NVIDIA

NVIDIA ships Nemotron 3.5 Super VL and Bolt

NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, an open 120B multimodal model for always-on agents, plus Bolt edge models for local RTX and DGX Spark systems. Super VL and Bolt 74B-A9B are available now on Hugging Face; Bolt E4B follows Oct. 23.

2026-10-15
The Verge

Google and Meta re-enter the AI model race

The Verge argues that new releases from Google and Meta have broken the recent lead Anthropic and OpenAI seemed to hold.

2026-10-14

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Anthropic API

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API access to Anthropic's Claude models.

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Google AI Studio

aistudio.google.com

Prototype with Gemini models and get an API key.

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Hugging Face

huggingface.co

Hub for open models, datasets and ML demos.

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Groq

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Very fast LLM inference on custom LPU hardware.

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Ollama

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Run open LLMs locally on your machine.

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