Anthropic Claude API vs OpenAI API vs OpenRouter vs Together AI

Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.

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Anthropic Claude API
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OpenAI API
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OpenRouter
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Together AI
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Anthropic Claude API
anthropic.com
Build on Claude's capabilities
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Competitor OpenAI API
platform.openai.com
The API powering the AI ecosystem
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Competitor OpenRouter
openrouter.ai
Every model, one endpoint
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Competitor Together AI
together.ai
Open-source models without infrastructure
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
13.8Mvisits/mo
15.2Mvisits/mo
22Mvisits/mo
785.1Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▼ 39.4%
▲ 4.6%
▲ 14.6%
▼ 6.4%
6-month growth
-43.4%
-2.4%
+39.6%
+1.9%
Global rank web
#3,345
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#2,023
#60,843
Avg. last 3 months
25.7M
15.2M
19.5M
794.7K
Bounce rate lower is better
67%
34%
32%
42%
Pages / visit
1.8
5.4
7.7
3.2
Visit duration
1m 35s
3m 56s
6m 13s
1m 57s
Traffic sources
● Direct 81% · ● Referral 16%
● Direct 82% · ● Referral 15%
● Direct 89% · ● Referral 10%
● Direct 77% · ● Referral 21%
Anthropic Claude APIOpenAI APIOpenRouterTogether AI
010.1M20.2M30.4M40.5MAnthropic Claude API · 9.9MAnthropic Claude API · 9.4MAnthropic Claude API · 9.5MAnthropic Claude API · 16.1MAnthropic Claude API · 24.4MAnthropic Claude API · 25.9MAnthropic Claude API · 22.4MAnthropic Claude API · 40.5MAnthropic Claude API · 22.8MAnthropic Claude API · 13.8MOpenAI API · 18.7MOpenAI API · 16.7MOpenAI API · 16.5MOpenAI API · 15.6MOpenAI API · 15.9MOpenAI API · 15.1MOpenAI API · 15.7MOpenAI API · 14.6MOpenAI API · 15.2MOpenRouter · 7.5MOpenRouter · 8.6MOpenRouter · 8.4MOpenRouter · 11.2MOpenRouter · 15.8MOpenRouter · 17.9MOpenRouter · 16.8MOpenRouter · 17.3MOpenRouter · 19.2MOpenRouter · 22MTogether AI · 566.8KTogether AI · 552.7KTogether AI · 645.8KTogether AI · 637.7KTogether AI · 770.2KTogether AI · 792.8KTogether AI · 756.1KTogether AI · 760.5KTogether AI · 838.4KTogether AI · 785.1K100K1M10M100MAnthropic Claude API · 9.9MAnthropic Claude API · 9.4MAnthropic Claude API · 9.5MAnthropic Claude API · 16.1MAnthropic Claude API · 24.4MAnthropic Claude API · 25.9MAnthropic Claude API · 22.4MAnthropic Claude API · 40.5MAnthropic Claude API · 22.8MAnthropic Claude API · 13.8MOpenAI API · 18.7MOpenAI API · 16.7MOpenAI API · 16.5MOpenAI API · 15.6MOpenAI API · 15.9MOpenAI API · 15.1MOpenAI API · 15.7MOpenAI API · 14.6MOpenAI API · 15.2MOpenRouter · 7.5MOpenRouter · 8.6MOpenRouter · 8.4MOpenRouter · 11.2MOpenRouter · 15.8MOpenRouter · 17.9MOpenRouter · 16.8MOpenRouter · 17.3MOpenRouter · 19.2MOpenRouter · 22MTogether AI · 566.8KTogether AI · 552.7KTogether AI · 645.8KTogether AI · 637.7KTogether AI · 770.2KTogether AI · 792.8KTogether AI · 756.1KTogether AI · 760.5KTogether AI · 838.4KTogether AI · 785.1KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Paid
Freemium
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Starting price
$17per month · free tier available
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Free tier
$1.99per month
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Plans
Plan $17.0 $17/moPlan $20.0 $20/moPlan $25.0 $25/moPlan $100.0 $100/mo+2 more
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Free FreeStandard Custom/moBusiness Custom/moEnterprise Custom
Serverless Inference $0.30/usage-basedDedicated Inference GPU $3.99/usage-basedGPU Clusters $1.99/usage-basedFine-Tuning $0.34/usage-based
Capabilities input → output
Input
CodeTextImagesDocuments
AudioDocumentsImagesText
TextVideoImagesAudio
TextImagesCodeAudio
Output
TextCode
VideoAudioCodeImagesText
VideoAudioImagesText
AudioCodeImagesTextVideo
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI APILarge Language Models (LLMs)
Development & CodeAI APILarge Language Models (LLMs)
Development & CodeAI APILarge Language Models (LLMs)
Development & CodeAI APIAI Developer ToolsOpen Source AI Models
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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8
APIs
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GPU infrastructure
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