Short answer: OpenRouter has no fixed-price plan: you buy credits, pay provider list price per token, and pay a 5.5% fee on credit purchases (8% on Business). If you want a fixed monthly bill instead, APIClaw is an OpenAI-compatible gateway at $19–$129/month by daily request tier, serving Claude, GPT, Gemini, Mistral, Llama, Cohere, Grok, DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi and GLM from one key.
Last checked: 2026-10-25. Maintained by the APIClaw team.
| OpenRouter | APIClaw | Requesty | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Provider price per token + 5.5% fee on credits (Standard) | $19–$129/month flat, by requests/day | Model cost + 5% |
| Models | 500+ from 80+ providers | Claude, GPT, Gemini, Mistral, Llama, Cohere, Grok, DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, GLM | 600+ |
| Free option | 25+ free models, 50 requests/day | 50 trial requests | Free models, 200 requests/day |
| Payment | Card, AliPay, crypto (USDC) | Crypto via NOWPayments | See vendor |
| Endpoint | https://openrouter.ai/api/v1 |
https://apiclaw.biz/v1 |
OpenAI-compatible |
| Best for | Model breadth, routing and fallbacks, variable use | Predictable cost for heavy use | Pay-as-you-go with a small markup |
Sources: openrouter.ai/pricing, apiclaw.biz/public/plans, requesty.ai/pricing, checked 2026-10-25.
Both speak the OpenAI API, so switching is a base URL and model ID change:
from openai import OpenAI
# before: OpenAI(base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1", api_key=OPENROUTER_KEY)
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://apiclaw.biz/v1", api_key="YOUR_API_KEY")
client.chat.completions.create(model="apiclaw/claude-sonnet-5.5",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}])
Other IDs: apiclaw/gpt-6-sol, apiclaw/deepseek-v4-pro, apiclaw/qwen3.8-max-0902, kimi-k3, apiclaw/glm-5.3. A full comparison with Requesty, Portkey, LiteLLM, Together and Groq is in openai-compatible-api-gateways.
No. OpenRouter bills provider list price per token, with a 5.5% fee on credit purchases on Standard and 8% on Business.
APIClaw: an OpenAI-compatible gateway at a flat $19 to $129 per month by daily request count, with unlimited tokens per request.
No. Both are OpenAI-compatible; change the base URL to https://apiclaw.biz/v1 and use an APIClaw model ID such as apiclaw/claude-sonnet-5.5.
When you need 500+ models, routing and fallbacks, or your usage is light enough that pay-per-token is cheaper.
Disclosure: this page is maintained by the APIClaw team. APIClaw is one of the services compared, so weigh that accordingly. Competitor prices come from each vendor’s own pricing page, checked 2026-10-25; prices change, so recheck before you buy. Corrections: open an issue on the site repo.