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  "slug": "openrouter",
  "name": "OpenRouter",
  "url": "https://openrouter.ai",
  "cat": "ai",
  "group": "ai",
  "tagline": "Multi-provider LLM router",
  "price": "No inference markup; 5.5% (min $0.80) fee on credit top-ups, 5% via crypto. BYOK 5% above a $25k/mo free allowance. Free models capped at 50 req/day, 1,000 with $10 credit.",
  "tier": "mixed",
  "pick": false,
  "what": "A single OpenAI-compatible endpoint that fronts 500+ models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and dozens of inference hosts. It is a <b>router</b>, not a model provider — it resells other people's inference at list price and picks a backend by price, latency or uptime.",
  "why": "One API key and one billing relationship for every model, so you can swap <code>anthropic/claude-opus-5</code> for <code>google/gemini-3.7-flash</code> in a string and A/B the cost. Free models let you prototype at zero spend.",
  "warn": "Routing is opaque by default — the same model slug can land on providers with different quantization, context limits and data-retention policies. Pin providers explicitly for production.",
  "category": {
    "key": "ai",
    "name": "Model APIs, routers & observability",
    "desc": "Providers, gateways, inference hosts and eval layers — constantly conflated, listed separately here.",
    "group": "ai",
    "groupName": "Put AI inside it"
  },
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  "health": {
    "ok": true,
    "status_code": 200,
    "final_url": "https://openrouter.ai/",
    "checked_at": "2026-08-18T23:43:12.623+00:00"
  },
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  "upstream_changed_at": null
}