OpenRouter alternatives
Compare 43 alternatives to OpenRouter: providers that serve the same models, ranked by how many they share, with live prices showing where each one is cheaper.
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43 providers serve at least one of the 212 models OpenRouter prices per token, most shared first. Input and output rates are compared separately on each shared model at standard pricing.
| Provider | Shared models | Lower input price on | Lower output price on | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Prime Intellect | 99 of 212DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM-5.3-Flash, DeepSeek V4 Pro +96 more | 5 | 7 | Compare |
 RouterPlus | 91 of 212DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM-5.3-Flash, DeepSeek V4 Pro +88 more | 11 | 11 | Compare |
 GMI Cloud | 64 of 212DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM-5.3-Flash, DeepSeek V4 Pro +61 more | 10 | 13 | Compare |
 Deep Infra | 63 of 212DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM-5.3-Flash, DeepSeek V4 Pro +60 more | 13 | 12 | Compare |
 Novita AI | 52 of 212DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM-5.3-Flash, DeepSeek V4 Pro +49 more | 9 | 12 | Compare |
 DigitalOcean | 50 of 212DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM-5.3-Flash, DeepSeek V4 Pro +47 more | 1 | 2 | Compare |
 PopNow | 40 of 212DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM-5.3-Flash, DeepSeek V4 Pro +37 more | 19 | 20 | Compare |
 Together AI | 35 of 212DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM-5.3-Flash, DeepSeek V4 Pro +32 more | 3 | 7 | Compare |
 Amazon AWS | 34 of 212DeepSeek V3.2, Claude Opus 4.6, GLM-4.7 +31 more | 3 | 4 | Compare |
 IO.NET | 32 of 212DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM-5.3-Flash, DeepSeek V4 Pro +29 more | 7 | 7 | Compare |
 Empirio Labs | 27 of 212DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM-5.3-Flash, DeepSeek V4 Pro +24 more | 8 | 9 | Compare |
 Microsoft Azure | 24 of 212GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-6 Astra, GPT-5.6 Terra +21 more | 0 | 0 | Compare |
 OpenAI | 22 of 212GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-5.6 Terra, GPT-5.4 +19 more | 0 | 0 | Compare |
 IteraCompute | 21 of 212DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM-5.3-Flash, DeepSeek V4 Pro +18 more | 13 | 16 | Compare |
 Heabsy | 20 of 212DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM-5.3-Flash, DeepSeek V4 Pro +17 more | 1 | 1 | Compare |
 HiAPI | 17 of 212DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, DeepSeek V4 Pro, Kimi K3 +14 more | 10 | 11 | Compare |
 Anthropic | 14 of 212Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Sonnet 5.5, Claude Opus 5 +11 more | 0 | 0 | Compare |
 Google Cloud | 11 of 212Gemini 3.1 Pro, Gemini 3.7 Flash, Gemini 2.5 Flash +8 more | 0 | 0 | Compare |
 CloudGPU | 10 of 212Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Sonnet 5.5, Claude Opus 5 +7 more | 10 | 10 | Compare |
 Lyceum | 10 of 212DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM-5.3-Flash, DeepSeek V4 Pro +7 more | 0 | 1 | Compare |
 Baseten | 8 of 212DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM-5.3-Flash, DeepSeek V4 Pro +5 more | 0 | 1 | Compare |
 Scaleway | 8 of 212DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, Qwen3.8 27B, DeepSeek V4 Flash +5 more | 0 | 0 | Compare |
 Crusoe | 7 of 212DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM-5.3-Flash, DeepSeek V4 Pro +4 more | 2 | 1 | Compare |
 EcoHash | 7 of 212DeepSeek V4 Pro, Kimi K3, Qwen3.8 27B +4 more | 4 | 5 | Compare |
 Mistral AI | 7 of 212DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM-5.3-Flash, Ministral 3 14B +4 more | 0 | 0 | Compare |
 Runcrate | 7 of 212MiniMax-M3.1-Flash, Ministral 3 14B, DeepSeek R1 +4 more | 0 | 0 | Compare |
 VoltageGPU | 7 of 212Kimi K3, Qwen3.8 27B, Kimi K2.6 +4 more | 1 | 1 | Compare |
 Geodd | 6 of 212DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM-5.3-Flash, DeepSeek V4 Pro +3 more | 3 | 3 | Compare |
 OVHcloud | 6 of 212Qwen3.8 27B, Qwen3.5 397B A17B, Qwen 3.6 27B +3 more | 2 | 2 | Compare |
 xAI | 5 of 212Grok 4.6, Grok 4.5, Grok 4.7 +2 more | 0 | 0 | Compare |
 Fireworks AI | 4 of 212DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM-5.3-Flash, Kimi K3.1 Pro +1 more | 0 | 0 | Compare |
 Perplexity | 4 of 212GLM-5.3-Flash, DeepSeek V4 Pro, Kimi K3 +1 more | 1 | 1 | Compare |
 Runpod | 4 of 212Kimi K3, Kimi K3.1 Pro, Kimi K2.6 +1 more | 0 | 1 | Compare |
 Cohere | 2 of 212Command R, Command R7B | 0 | 0 | Compare |
 DeepSeek | 2 of 212DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, DeepSeek V4 Pro | 0 | 0 | Compare |
 Hyperstack | 2 of 212Llama 3.1 8B, Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | Compare |
 Inception | 2 of 212Mercury 3, Mercury 2 | 0 | 0 | Compare |
 OpenRelay | 2 of 212DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM-5.3-Flash | 2 | 1 | Compare |
 SambaNova | 2 of 212MiniMax-M3.1-Flash, Gemma 4 31B | 0 | 0 | Compare |
 Cerebras | 1 of 212Qwen3.8 27B | 0 | 1 | Compare |
 Groq | 1 of 212Qwen3.8 27B | 0 | 0 | Compare |
 ParalonCloud | 1 of 212Qwen3.8 27B | 1 | 0 | Compare |
 Pareto Inference | 1 of 212GLM-5.3-Flash | 1 | 1 | Compare |
Frequently Asked Questions
Which providers serve the same models as OpenRouter?
43 providers serve at least one of the 212 models OpenRouter prices per token. The most overlap is at Prime Intellect (99 models), RouterPlus (91 models) and GMI Cloud (64 models).
Where are the same models cheaper than on OpenRouter?
24 providers charge less per input token than OpenRouter on at least one shared model, and 28 providers charge less per output token. The two are counted separately because the cheapest host for input tokens is often not the cheapest for output.
How are these OpenRouter alternatives chosen?
An alternative is any provider that currently prices at least one of the same GPUs on demand or the same models at standard per-token rates. They are ordered by how many they share, using the current prices we track for every provider. Sponsorship and paid placement have no effect on the order.