OpenRouter vs OpenAI API vs Together AI vs Defapi
Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.
Your tool
OpenRouter
vs OpenRouter
Competitor 1
OpenAI API
OpenAI API
Competitor 2
Together AI
Together AI
Competitor 3
DDefapi
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Competitor
DDefapi
defapi.org
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
22Mvisits/mo
15.2Mvisits/mo
785.1Kvisits/mo
2.4Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▲ 14.6%
▲ 4.6%
▼ 6.4%
▼ 42.6%
6-month growth
+39.6%
-2.4%
+1.9%
-86.2%
Global rank web
#2,023
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#60,843
#4,650,820
Avg. last 3 months
19.5M
15.2M
794.7K
4.8K
Bounce rate lower is better
32%
34%
42%
36%
Pages / visit
7.7
5.4
3.2
1.4
Visit duration
6m 13s
3m 56s
1m 57s
7s
Traffic sources
● Direct 89% · ● Referral 10%
● Direct 82% · ● Referral 15%
● Direct 77% · ● Referral 21%
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OpenRouterOpenAI APITogether AIDefapi
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Paid
Paid
Paid
Starting price
Free tier
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$1.99per month
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Free tier
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Free trial
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API access
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Plans
Free FreeStandard Custom/moBusiness Custom/moEnterprise Custom
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Serverless Inference $0.30/usage-basedDedicated Inference GPU $3.99/usage-basedGPU Clusters $1.99/usage-basedFine-Tuning $0.34/usage-based
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
Capabilities input → output
Input
AudioImagesTextVideo
DocumentsImagesTextAudio
TextImagesCodeAudio
TextImagesAudio
Output
AudioImagesTextVideo
AudioCodeImagesTextVideo
VideoTextImagesCodeAudio
TextImagesAudio
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core partial
Tasks covered
5
6
8
4
APIs
API integrations
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Large language models
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LLM development
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Development
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Inference
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LLM gateway
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API management
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Fine-Tuning
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GPU infrastructure
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Models
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API security
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Chatbot building
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LLM comparison
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Traffic figures are third-party estimates for the tool's own domain; tools sharing a domain with a bigger product are not counted. Pricing is captured from each tool's site and may lag.