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The same open models cost about twice as much as on OpenRouter, and frontier models are capped at 20 requests a minute.

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Convenient inside a Worker, but OpenRouter is cheaper and has newer models.

Don't use it when

Production features at volume. OpenRouter serves the same open models for about half the price.

Pricing

$0.011 per 1,000 neurons. DeepSeek V4 Pro: $1.32 / $3.96 per million tokens vs $0.66 / $1.98 on OpenRouter.

Provisioning

Official Pulumi package · Official Terraform provider

Use instead

OpenRouter: the same open models for about half the price, and newer ones.

Alternatives

OpenRouter Always.

Last reviewed 18 October 2026 by Nicolas Dao

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