OpenRouter vs Groq vs SambaNova Cloud

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

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OpenRouter
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Competitor 1
Groq
Competitor 2
SambaNova Cloud
Competitor 3
Suggested competitors for OpenRouter: FastRouter90% CometAPI90% APIMart86% Together AI85% AnyApiAI85% DDefapi84% APIPASS84% Eden AI80%
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3 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool OpenRouter
openrouter.ai
Every model, one endpoint
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Competitor Groq
groq.com
AI inference at unprecedented speed
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Competitor SambaNova Cloud
cloud.sambanova.ai
SambaNova Cloud is an inference service where developers call open-source models through an API that follows the OpenAI chat completions format.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
22Mvisits/mo
4.2Mvisits/mo
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MoM change
▲ 14.6%
▼ 12.2%
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6-month growth
+39.6%
+19.4%
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Global rank web
#2,023
#9,344
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Avg. last 3 months
19.5M
4.1M
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Bounce rate lower is better
32%
32%
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Pages / visit
7.7
6.1
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Visit duration
6m 13s
3m 48s
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Traffic sources
● Direct 89% · ● Referral 10%
● Direct 78% · ● Referral 20%
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OpenRouterGroqSambaNova Cloud
05.5M11M16.5M22MOpenRouter · 7.5MOpenRouter · 8.6MOpenRouter · 8.4MOpenRouter · 11.2MOpenRouter · 15.8MOpenRouter · 17.9MOpenRouter · 16.8MOpenRouter · 17.3MOpenRouter · 19.2MOpenRouter · 22MGroq · 1.4MGroq · 1.9MGroq · 2.1MGroq · 2.5MGroq · 3.5MGroq · 3.7MGroq · 3.6MGroq · 3.4MGroq · 4.8MGroq · 4.2M1M10M100MOpenRouter · 7.5MOpenRouter · 8.6MOpenRouter · 8.4MOpenRouter · 11.2MOpenRouter · 15.8MOpenRouter · 17.9MOpenRouter · 16.8MOpenRouter · 17.3MOpenRouter · 19.2MOpenRouter · 22MGroq · 1.4MGroq · 1.9MGroq · 2.1MGroq · 2.5MGroq · 3.5MGroq · 3.7MGroq · 3.6MGroq · 3.4MGroq · 4.8MGroq · 4.2MNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
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Starting price
Free tier
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Free tier
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Plans
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Free Custom/moDeveloper Custom/moEnterprise Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
AudioImagesTextVideo
AudioText
ImagesText
Output
AudioImagesTextVideo
AudioText
Text
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI APILarge Language Models (LLMs)
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeAI API
Tasks what each tool can do · 2 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
5
3
4
APIs
Large language models
Development
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