OpenRouter vs Together AI vs Defapi vs Vercel AI Gateway

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
Together AI
Competitor 2
DDefapi
Competitor 3
Vercel AI Gateway
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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 Together AI
together.ai
Open-source models without infrastructure
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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 Vercel AI Gateway
vercel.com
Vercel AI Gateway is a single API endpoint for hundreds of AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceXAI, open-source providers and more.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
22Mvisits/mo
785.1Kvisits/mo
2.4Kvisits/mo
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MoM change
▲ 14.6%
▼ 6.4%
▼ 42.6%
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6-month growth
+39.6%
+1.9%
-86.2%
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Global rank web
#2,023
#60,843
#4,650,820
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Avg. last 3 months
19.5M
794.7K
4.8K
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Bounce rate lower is better
32%
42%
36%
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Pages / visit
7.7
3.2
1.4
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Visit duration
6m 13s
1m 57s
7s
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Traffic sources
● Direct 89% · ● Referral 10%
● Direct 77% · ● Referral 21%
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OpenRouterTogether AIDefapiVercel AI Gateway
05.5M11M16.5M22MOpenRouter · 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 · 785.1KDefapi · 11.1KDefapi · 13KDefapi · 12.4KDefapi · 17.7KDefapi · 9.4KDefapi · 6.2KDefapi · 7.6KDefapi · 4.2KDefapi · 2.4K1K10K100K1M10M100MOpenRouter · 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 · 785.1KDefapi · 11.1KDefapi · 13KDefapi · 12.4KDefapi · 17.7KDefapi · 9.4KDefapi · 6.2KDefapi · 7.6KDefapi · 4.2KDefapi · 2.4KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Paid
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Freemium
Starting price
Free tier
$1.99per month
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$20per month · free tier available
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Plans
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
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
Hobby FreePro $20/moEnterprise Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
VideoTextImagesAudio
CodeTextImagesAudio
TextImagesAudio
TextImagesAudio
Output
ImagesTextVideoAudio
VideoTextImagesCodeAudio
TextImagesAudio
VideoTextImagesAudio
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI APILarge Language Models (LLMs)
Development & CodeAI APIAI Developer ToolsOpen Source AI Models
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeAI API
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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APIs
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