OpenRouter Pricing
Every OpenRouter plan with its monthly and annual price, what it costs for common team sizes, and a calculator to estimate your own monthly cost before you buy.
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Plans and prices
| Plan | Monthly billing | Annual billing (per month) | Per user or flat | Users | Free tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Free | — | No limit listed | Yes |
| Business | Contact sales | Contact sales | — | No limit listed | No |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | Contact sales | — | No limit listed | No |
| Standard | Contact sales | Contact sales | — | No limit listed | No |
Prices last updated November 2026.
What each OpenRouter plan includes
Free
- 5 workspaces
- Community support
- 25+ free models from 4 providers
- 50 requests per day on free models (1,000 per day after a 10 dollar credit purchase)
Business
- Email support
- 1,000 workspaces
- Advanced notifications
- EU and US in-region routing
- Workload Identity Federation
- Pay as you go with an 8% fee on credit purchases
Enterprise
- SSO/SAML
- Invoicing
- Contractual SLAs
- Higher rate limits
- Dedicated support team
- Managed policy enforcement
- Discounted platform fee by contract
Standard
- 5 workspaces
- Email support
- 600+ models, 80+ providers
- Management API keys and activity log export
- Pay as you go with a 5.5% fee on credit purchases
- Budgets, spend controls, auto-routing, prompt caching
What OpenRouter costs by team size
The plan that fits each team size, billed monthly, before add-ons and usage charges.
Add-ons
| Add-on | Monthly billing | Annual billing (per month) | Charged |
|---|---|---|---|
| Private endpointsEnterprise-only add-on, priced through sales. | Not listed | Not listed | Flat |
Usage pricing
| Metric | Plan | Included per month | Price after that |
|---|---|---|---|
| BYOK fee above 25,000 dollars per month of list-price inference | Standard | 25,000 | $5 per percent of inference spend |
| Platform fee on credit purchases | Business | None | $8 per percent of credits purchased |
| Platform fee on credit purchases | Standard | None | $5.50 per percent of credits purchased |
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Cost breakdown
Estimated from the vendor's published prices, last updated November 2026. Actual costs may vary based on negotiated contracts. How we collect prices
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OpenRouter pricing FAQs
No. You pay provider list prices for tokens plus a platform fee when you buy credits: 5.5% on Standard and 8% on Business. Enterprise fees are negotiated.
Yes. BYOK is free up to 25,000 dollars a month of list-price inference, then a 5% fee applies.
Yes, OpenRouter has a free plan: Free.
OpenRouter's Free plan includes 5 workspaces, Community support, 25+ free models from 4 providers and 50 requests per day on free models (1,000 per day after a 10 dollar credit purchase).
OpenRouter is free for 10 users on its Free plan.
Yes. OpenRouter sells an add-on on top of its plans: Private endpoints. It also charges by usage for BYOK fee above 25,000 dollars per month of list-price inference and Platform fee on credit purchases, past what the plan includes.