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Best OpenRouter alternatives (October 2026)

Updated October 31, 2026, 17:00 UTC. UberLLM prices are read live when the page is built (every hour); other providers' prices were checked October 30, 2026 or read from their public price lists at build. UberLLM wrote this page and is one of the providers in it.

On October 31, 2026, of the OpenRouter alternatives with a public price list, UberLLM was lowest against OpenRouter on the same models: lower on 146 of 151 shared models, 68% less at the median, with its card fee added. The others with a public price list were at OpenRouter’s price at the median. Vercel AI Gateway and Requesty charge the providers’ list prices; Requesty adds 5%. LiteLLM, Portkey and Cloudflare AI Gateway route your own provider keys.

ProviderWhat it isFeePrice vs OpenRouter, same modelsImage and video
UberLLMAPI marketplace: each request goes to a third-party provider for the modelNone on requests; 5.5% + $0.50 when adding credit by cardLower on 146 of 151 shared models, 68% less at the medianYes: image, video, music, speech
Vercel AI GatewayGateway in your Vercel accountNo markup on provider token pricesLower on 12 of 172 shared models; the median is the same price
RequestyRouter with fallbacks and spend controls5% on model costs, added when you top upLower on 18 of 147 shared models; the median is the same price
DeepInfraRuns open models on its own GPUsNo separate fee listedLower on 34 of 106 shared models; the median is the same price
Novita AIRuns open models on its own GPUsNot publicly listedLower on 11 of 58 shared models; the median is 0% more
Concentrate AIManaged LLM gateway“0 service fee or credit card fees… No platform markup on tokens”
Cloudflare AI GatewayProxy in your Cloudflare account: caching, logs, rate limits5% added to credits bought through its Unified Billing; none on your own keysYes, through Workers AI models
LiteLLMOpen-source proxy you run yourselfNone on the open-source version
PortkeyGateway with logs and guardrails, priced by planFree plan; Production $49/month

Providers with a public price list come first, ordered by their median price against OpenRouter on the models both list (read from each list when this page was built; UberLLM’s side includes its 5.5% card fee). Gateways that route your own provider keys follow; through them you pay each provider’s own price. An empty cell means we could not confirm it on the provider's own pages.

Each provider, good and bad

UberLLM

Pick it if: You want the lowest live price on the models OpenRouter also sells, and one key for chat, image and video, with the OpenAI or Anthropic SDK you already use.

Watch for: Prices move with the market during the day, and a request can cost more when the lower-priced sellers are busy (cap it with provider.max_price). No free models. Fewer models than OpenRouter, and a short track record: UberLLM opened in 2026.

Source: UberLLM live prices (live, October 31, 2026)

Vercel AI Gateway

Pick it if: Your app already runs on Vercel or uses the AI SDK.

Watch for: You pay the providers’ list prices, so it is rarely cheaper than OpenRouter per token.

Source: Vercel AI Gateway pricing, its model list (checked 2026-10-30)

Requesty

Pick it if: You want routing rules, fallbacks and per-team spend limits.

Watch for: List prices plus 5%; built into Cline, Roo and Kilo, but not cheaper per token.

Source: Requesty pricing, its model list (checked 2026-10-30)

DeepInfra

Pick it if: You run open models (DeepSeek, Qwen, Llama) and want one host with steady prices.

Watch for: Open models only: no Claude, GPT or Gemini.

Source: DeepInfra pricing, its model list (checked 2026-10-30)

Novita AI

Pick it if: You want open models at low prices, also on Hugging Face as an inference provider.

Watch for: Mostly open models; check that yours is listed.

Source: Novita pricing, its model list (checked 2026-10-30)

Concentrate AI

Pick it if: You want a managed gateway with no fee on credit.

Watch for: Provider list prices; its own pages give two different model counts.

Source: Concentrate pricing (checked 2026-10-30)

Cloudflare AI Gateway

Pick it if: You are on Cloudflare and want caching and logs in front of your own provider keys.

Watch for: Its OpenAI-style chat endpoint is deprecated for single-model calls; Cloudflare points to its own REST API instead.

Source: Cloudflare AI Gateway pricing (checked 2026-10-30)

LiteLLM

Pick it if: You want full control and already hold provider keys.

Watch for: You run and update the server, and you pay each provider’s own price.

Source: LiteLLM (checked 2026-10-30)

Portkey

Pick it if: You need observability, guardrails and governance across teams.

Watch for: A monthly plan for production use; you bring your own provider keys.

Source: Portkey pricing (checked 2026-10-30)

How to switch to UberLLM

UberLLM and every service here accept OpenAI Chat Completions requests. Moving from OpenRouter means a new base URL and API key; model ids use the same maker/model form.

python
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.uberllm.dev/v1",  # was: https://openrouter.ai/api/v1
    api_key="ull_your_key_here",
)

resp = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)

No UberLLM fee on requests. Adding credit by card costs 5.5% + $0.50.

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Questions

What does OpenRouter charge?

OpenRouter adds no fee to model prices; it charges 5.5% when you buy credits on its Standard plan and 8% on Business. Bring-your-own-key use is free up to $25,000 of list-price use a month, then 5%.

Is there an OpenRouter alternative with lower prices on the same models?

Compare prices on the same model ids: the table shows, for each provider with a public price list, on how many shared models it is lower than OpenRouter and by how much at the median. Gateways that use your own keys charge each provider’s own price.

Which OpenRouter alternatives also do image and video?

UberLLM serves image, video, music and speech models with the same key. OpenRouter itself now lists image and video models. Cloudflare AI Gateway reaches image and video models through Workers AI.

How do I switch from OpenRouter to UberLLM?

Set base_url to https://api.uberllm.dev/v1 and use an UberLLM API key. Anthropic SDK requests go to /v1/messages. No UberLLM fee on requests. Adding credit by card costs 5.5% + $0.50.