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OpenRouter
✓ verifiedFreemium
Unified API gateway that routes requests to 400+ LLMs across 70+ providers with failover and no subscription.
17M visits/mo
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Fireworks AI
✓ verifiedPaid
Developer platform for fast serverless inference and training of open generative models, billed per token or GPU-second.
611K visits/mo1.3K saves
Pricing
Free: $0 (free models only, 50 requests/day)
Pay-as-you-go: 5.5% platform fee on inference
On-Demand H100/H200: $7/GPU-hour
On-Demand B200: $10/GPU-hour
On-Demand B300: $12/GPU-hour
Fine-tuning (LoRA SFT, models up to 16B): from $0.50 per 1M training tokens
Core features
- ✦One unified, OpenAI-compatible API for 400+ models
- ✦Automatic provider failover for higher uptime
- ✦Edge routing for low latency
- ✦Custom data and provider policies
- ✦Pay-as-you-go credits usable across any model
- ✦Serverless per-token inference with OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible APIs
- ✦On-demand dedicated and reserved GPU deployments
- ✦Fine-tuning and reinforcement-learning training pipelines
- ✦Large library of open LLM, vision, image and audio models
- ✦Optimized inference engine for throughput and latency
Use cases
- →Accessing many LLMs through one integration
- →Adding provider redundancy to AI apps
- →Comparing model price and performance
- →Powering agents and AI-native products
- →Serving open models in production apps and agents
- →Fine-tuning models on private data
- →Powering code assistants, chatbots and RAG at scale
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