Nebius vs OpenRouter
Same workloads, both price lists, refreshed daily. On shared line items today: Nebius is cheaper on 8 of 30 shared models (input or output price), OpenRouter on 13.
Nebius
AI cloud from the former Yandex team with H100/H200/B200 clusters in Europe and the US, plus Nebius AI Studio for per-token open-weight inference. Competitive pricing at cluster scale.
- European datacenters
- Both clusters and per-token inference
- Aggressive large-scale pricing
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 2026-10-08 ยท input $/1M tokens| Model | Nebius in/out | OpenRouter in/out | Cheaper input |
|---|---|---|---|
| Llama 3.1 8B | $0.020 / $0.060 | $0.050 / $0.080 | Nebius |
| Mistral Nemo | $0.040 / $0.120 | $0.019 / $0.030 | OpenRouter |
| Nemotron 3 Nano | $0.060 / $0.240 | $0.050 / $0.200 | OpenRouter |
| Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | $0.060 / $0.240 | $0.060 / $0.160 | tie |
| Qwen3 14B | $0.080 / $0.240 | $0.120 / $0.240 | Nebius |
| Qwen3 30B A3B | $0.100 / $0.300 | $0.120 / $0.500 | Nebius |
| Qwen3 32B | $0.100 / $0.300 | $0.080 / $0.280 | OpenRouter |
| Gemma 3 27B | $0.100 / $0.300 | $0.080 / $0.450 | OpenRouter |
| Llama 3.3 70B | $0.130 / $0.400 | $0.220 / $0.500 | Nebius |
| Llama 3.1 70B Instruct | $0.130 / $0.400 | $0.400 / $0.400 | Nebius |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | $0.140 / $0.280 | $0.030 / $1.28 | OpenRouter |
| GPT-OSS 120B | $0.150 / $0.600 | $0.037 / $0.170 | OpenRouter |
| GLM 5.3 Flash | $0.150 / $0.500 | $0.150 / $0.500 | tie |
| Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking | $0.150 / $1.20 | $0.150 / $1.20 | tie |
| Qwen3 235B A22B | $0.200 / $0.600 | $0.455 / $1.82 | Nebius |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B | $0.250 / $0.750 | $0.800 / $0.800 | Nebius |
| Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct | $0.250 / $0.750 | $0.800 / $1.00 | Nebius |
| MiniMax M3 | $0.300 / $1.20 | $0.300 / $1.20 | tie |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | $0.300 / $1.20 | $0.044 / $0.300 | OpenRouter |
| MiniMax M2.5 | $0.300 / $1.20 | $0.270 / $1.08 | OpenRouter |
| Nemotron 3 Super | $0.300 / $0.900 | $0.080 / $0.450 | OpenRouter |
| Qwen3.8 27B | $0.450 / $3.00 | $0.425 / $2.55 | OpenRouter |
| Qwen3.5 397B A17B | $0.600 / $3.60 | $0.450 / $3.00 | OpenRouter |
| DeepSeek R1 | $0.800 / $2.40 | $0.700 / $2.50 | OpenRouter |
| Kimi K2.6 | $0.950 / $4.00 | $0.950 / $4.00 | tie |
| Kimi K2.7 Code | $0.950 / $4.00 | $0.671 / $3.35 | OpenRouter |
| Nemotron 3 Ultra | $1.00 / $3.00 | $0.500 / $2.20 | OpenRouter |
| Hermes 3 405B Instruct | $1.00 / $3.00 | $1.00 / $1.00 | tie |
| GLM-5.2 | $1.40 / $4.40 | $0.152 / $12.00 | OpenRouter |
| GLM 5.3 | $1.40 / $4.40 | $0.070 / $7.00 | OpenRouter |
Cheaper-on-count is a tally of listed prices, not a quality verdict: throughput, reliability and quantization differ between providers. Disclosure.