OpenRouter vs Replicate
Same workloads, both price lists, refreshed daily. On shared line items today: OpenRouter is cheaper on 7 of 23 shared models (input or output price), Replicate on 2.
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
Replicate
Run thousands of community models (LLMs, image, audio, video) behind one API with per-second GPU billing: the fastest path from 'found a model on GitHub' to production endpoint..
- Massive community model zoo
- Per-second billing, scale to zero
- Custom models via Cog
Shared models, priced by both
List prices refreshed 2026-08-23 ยท input $/1M tokens| Model | OpenRouter in/out | Replicate in/out | Cheaper input |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-OSS 20B | $0.020 / $0.100 | $0.090 / $0.360 | OpenRouter |
| GPT-5 Nano | $0.050 / $0.400 | $0.050 / $0.400 | tie |
| Qwen3 235B A22B | $0.071 / $0.100 | $0.264 / $1.06 | OpenRouter |
| GPT-4.1 Nano | $0.100 / $0.400 | $0.100 / $0.400 | tie |
| GPT-4o-Mini | $0.150 / $0.600 | $0.150 / $0.600 | tie |
| GPT-OSS 120B | $0.180 / $0.800 | $0.180 / $0.720 | tie |
| GPT-5 Mini | $0.250 / $2.00 | $0.250 / $2.00 | tie |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash | $0.300 / $2.50 | $2.50 / $2.50 | OpenRouter |
| GPT-4.1 Mini | $0.400 / $1.60 | $0.400 / $1.60 | tie |
| DeepSeek R1 | $0.550 / $2.19 | $3.75 / $10.00 | OpenRouter |
| Llama-3-70b | $0.590 / $0.790 | $0.650 / $2.75 | OpenRouter |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | $1.00 / $5.00 | $1.00 / $5.00 | tie |
| o4 Mini | $1.10 / $4.40 | $1.00 / $4.00 | Replicate |
| GPT-5 | $1.25 / $10.00 | $1.25 / $10.00 | tie |
| GPT-4.1 | $2.00 / $8.00 | $2.00 / $8.00 | tie |
| Gemini-3-Pro | $2.00 / $12.00 | $2.00 / $12.00 | tie |
| GPT-4o | $2.50 / $10.00 | $2.50 / $10.00 | tie |
| Claude-3.7-Sonnet | $3.00 / $15.00 | $3.00 / $15.00 | tie |
| Claude Sonnet 4 | $3.00 / $15.00 | $3.00 / $15.00 | tie |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 | $3.00 / $15.00 | $3.00 / $15.00 | tie |
| Claude-3.5-Sonnet | $3.00 / $15.00 | $3.75 / $18.75 | OpenRouter |
| Grok-4 | $3.00 / $15.00 | $7.20 / $36.00 | OpenRouter |
| O1 | $15.00 / $60.00 | $15.00 / $60.00 | tie |
Cheaper-on-count is a tally of listed prices, not a quality verdict: throughput, reliability and quantization differ between providers. Disclosure.