OpenRouter vs Defapi vs Elicit vs FastRouter

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

Your tool
OpenRouter
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DDefapi
Competitor 2
Elicit
Competitor 3
FastRouter
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool OpenRouter
openrouter.ai
Every model, one endpoint
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Competitor DDefapi
defapi.org
You know how managing multiple AI provider integrations usually means maintaining separate codebases for each vendor
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Competitor Elicit
elicit.org
Research assistant that reads the papers
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Competitor FastRouter
fastrouter.ai
This LLM gateway lets teams tap into over 100 AI models through one API endpoint
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
22Mvisits/mo
2.4Kvisits/mo
9.2Kvisits/mo
15.5Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▲ 14.6%
▼ 42.6%
▼ 37.4%
▼ 62.7%
6-month growth
+39.6%
-86.2%
+0.1%
+4.7%
Global rank web
#2,023
#4,650,820
#2,562,886
#1,733,591
Avg. last 3 months
19.5M
4.8K
12.3K
23.1K
Bounce rate lower is better
32%
36%
37%
45%
Pages / visit
7.7
1.4
1.5
1.5
Visit duration
6m 13s
7s
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15s
Traffic sources
● Direct 89% · ● Referral 10%
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● Direct 95% · ● Referral 5%
OpenRouterDefapiElicitFastRouter
05.5M11M16.5M22MOpenRouter · 7.5MOpenRouter · 8.6MOpenRouter · 8.4MOpenRouter · 11.2MOpenRouter · 15.8MOpenRouter · 17.9MOpenRouter · 16.8MOpenRouter · 17.3MOpenRouter · 19.2MOpenRouter · 22MDefapi · 11.1KDefapi · 13KDefapi · 12.4KDefapi · 17.7KDefapi · 9.4KDefapi · 6.2KDefapi · 7.6KDefapi · 4.2KDefapi · 2.4KElicit · 7KElicit · 19KElicit · 17.3KElicit · 9.2KElicit · 4.5KElicit · 9.9KElicit · 13.1KElicit · 14.6KElicit · 9.2KFastRouter · 4.9KFastRouter · 14.8KFastRouter · 11KFastRouter · 10.2KFastRouter · 12.2KFastRouter · 41.6KFastRouter · 15.5K1K10K100K1M10M100MOpenRouter · 7.5MOpenRouter · 8.6MOpenRouter · 8.4MOpenRouter · 11.2MOpenRouter · 15.8MOpenRouter · 17.9MOpenRouter · 16.8MOpenRouter · 17.3MOpenRouter · 19.2MOpenRouter · 22MDefapi · 11.1KDefapi · 13KDefapi · 12.4KDefapi · 17.7KDefapi · 9.4KDefapi · 6.2KDefapi · 7.6KDefapi · 4.2KDefapi · 2.4KElicit · 7KElicit · 19KElicit · 17.3KElicit · 9.2KElicit · 4.5KElicit · 9.9KElicit · 13.1KElicit · 14.6KElicit · 9.2KFastRouter · 4.9KFastRouter · 14.8KFastRouter · 11KFastRouter · 10.2KFastRouter · 12.2KFastRouter · 41.6KFastRouter · 15.5KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Paid
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
Free tier
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$10per month · free tier available
$199per month · free tier available
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Plans
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Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview $1/$6/per requestClaude Sonnet 4.6 $1.5/$7.5/per requestClaude Opus 4.6 $2.5/$12.5/per requestSora 2 Stable $0.175+/per request+2 more
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Starter FreePro $199/moBusiness $799/moEnterprise Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
VideoTextImagesAudio
AudioTextImages
DocumentsText
TextImagesAudio
Output
VideoTextImagesAudio
TextImagesAudio
TextData
VideoTextImagesAudio
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Beginner-friendly
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI APILarge Language Models (LLMs)
Development & CodeAI API
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Development & CodeAI APIAI Developer Tools
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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