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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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Paperclip - ing
✓ verifiedFree
Open-source, self-hosted app to manage teams of AI agents like a company - org chart, goals, budgets and per-agent approvals.
942K visits/mo
Pricing
Free: $0 (free models only, 50 requests/day)
Pay-as-you-go: 5.5% platform fee on inference
No public pricing
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
- ✦Manage teams of AI agents
- ✦Bring-your-own-agent (any runtime/provider)
- ✦Org chart with roles and reporting lines
- ✦Goal alignment for tasks
- ✦Per-agent budget and cost controls
- ✦Ticket system with full audit trail
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
- →Orchestrating agents across business functions
- →Running dev, marketing and research agents
- →Building autonomous-business workflows
- →Governing and budgeting agent work
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