Baseten vs OpenRouter
Same workloads, both price lists, refreshed daily. On shared line items today: Baseten is cheaper on 1 of 8 shared models (input or output price), OpenRouter on 5.
Baseten
Production inference platform with Truss packaging, optimized serving engines and enterprise-grade autoscaling. Strong for teams shipping custom models with SLAs.
- Optimized model serving (TensorRT-LLM)
- Enterprise autoscaling and observability
OpenRouter
One API key for 340+ models across every major provider, with automatic failover and pass-through pricing. The fastest way to hedge provider risk or A/B models without new integrations.
- 340+ models, one integration
- Automatic provider failover
- Pass-through pricing, small platform fee
Shared models, priced by both
List prices refreshed 2026-08-23 ยท input $/1M tokens| Model | Baseten in/out | OpenRouter in/out | Cheaper input |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-OSS 120B | $0.100 / $0.500 | $0.180 / $0.800 | Baseten |
| MiniMax M2.5 | $0.300 / $1.20 | $0.300 / $1.10 | tie |
| Kimi K2 | $0.600 / $2.50 | $0.570 / $2.30 | OpenRouter |
| GLM-4.7 | $0.600 / $2.20 | $0.400 / $1.50 | OpenRouter |
| Kimi K2 Thinking | $0.600 / $2.50 | $0.600 / $2.50 | tie |
| Kimi K2.5 | $0.600 / $3.00 | $0.600 / $3.00 | tie |
| GLM-4.6 | $0.600 / $2.20 | $0.400 / $1.75 | OpenRouter |
| GLM-5 | $0.950 / $3.15 | $0.800 / $2.56 | OpenRouter |
Cheaper-on-count is a tally of listed prices, not a quality verdict: throughput, reliability and quantization differ between providers. Disclosure.