OpenAI API vs Cohere vs OpenRouter vs Together AI

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

Your tool
OpenAI API
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Cohere
Competitor 2
OpenRouter
Competitor 3
Together AI
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool OpenAI API
platform.openai.com
The API powering the AI ecosystem
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Competitor Cohere
cohere.com
Enterprise AI for business language
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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
15.2Mvisits/mo
773.1Kvisits/mo
22Mvisits/mo
785.1Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▲ 4.6%
▼ 14.2%
▲ 14.6%
▼ 6.4%
6-month growth
-2.4%
+68.3%
+39.6%
+1.9%
Global rank web
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#72,961
#2,023
#60,843
Avg. last 3 months
15.2M
758K
19.5M
794.7K
Bounce rate lower is better
34%
51%
32%
42%
Pages / visit
5.4
2.5
7.7
3.2
Visit duration
3m 56s
2m 21s
6m 13s
1m 57s
Traffic sources
● Direct 82% · ● Referral 15%
● Direct 78% · ● Referral 20%
● Direct 89% · ● Referral 10%
● Direct 77% · ● Referral 21%
OpenAI APICohereOpenRouterTogether AI
05.5M11M16.5M22MOpenAI 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 · 15.2MCohere · 579.9KCohere · 616.7KCohere · 446KCohere · 459.3KCohere · 505.7KCohere · 536.7KCohere · 599.7KCohere · 901.3KCohere · 773.1KOpenRouter · 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 · 785.1K100K1M10M100MOpenAI 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 · 15.2MCohere · 579.9KCohere · 616.7KCohere · 446KCohere · 459.3KCohere · 505.7KCohere · 536.7KCohere · 599.7KCohere · 901.3KCohere · 773.1KOpenRouter · 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
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Freemium
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Paid
Starting price
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Free tier
Free tier
$1.99per month
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Plans
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Trial FreeProduction Custom/usage-basedModel Vault Custom/mo
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
DocumentsImagesTextAudio
TextDocumentsAudio
AudioImagesTextVideo
CodeTextImagesAudio
Output
AudioCodeImagesTextVideo
TextData
AudioImagesTextVideo
VideoTextImagesCodeAudio
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI APILarge Language Models (LLMs)
Chatbots & CompanionsDevelopment & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI Agent+4 more
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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APIs
Large language models
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GPU infrastructure
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