OpenRouter vs Vercel AI Gateway vs CometAPI vs APIPASS

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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Vercel AI Gateway
Competitor 2
CometAPI
Competitor 3
APIPASS
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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 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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Competitor CometAPI
cometapi.com
CometAPI functions as an aggregation layer that sits between your application and hundreds of AI model providers
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Competitor APIPASS
apipass.dev
You're juggling eighteen different AI model providers through APIPASS
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
22Mvisits/mo
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302.3Kvisits/mo
90.8Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▲ 14.6%
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▲ 9.9%
▲ 2,647.8%
6-month growth
+39.6%
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-16.5%
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Global rank web
#2,023
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#157,147
#4,344,465
Avg. last 3 months
19.5M
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295.7K
31.6K
Bounce rate lower is better
32%
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46%
44%
Pages / visit
7.7
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2.9
2.3
Visit duration
6m 13s
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38s
15s
Traffic sources
● Direct 89% · ● Referral 10%
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● Direct 69% · ● Referral 30%
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OpenRouterVercel AI GatewayCometAPIAPIPASS
05.5M11M16.5M22MOpenRouter · 7.5MOpenRouter · 8.6MOpenRouter · 8.4MOpenRouter · 11.2MOpenRouter · 15.8MOpenRouter · 17.9MOpenRouter · 16.8MOpenRouter · 17.3MOpenRouter · 19.2MOpenRouter · 22MCometAPI · 834.4KCometAPI · 619.7KCometAPI · 437.2KCometAPI · 362.2KCometAPI · 355.5KCometAPI · 362.7KCometAPI · 309.5KCometAPI · 275.2KCometAPI · 302.3KAPIPASS · 1.2KAPIPASS · 700APIPASS · 3.3KAPIPASS · 90.8K1001K10K100K1M10M100MOpenRouter · 7.5MOpenRouter · 8.6MOpenRouter · 8.4MOpenRouter · 11.2MOpenRouter · 15.8MOpenRouter · 17.9MOpenRouter · 16.8MOpenRouter · 17.3MOpenRouter · 19.2MOpenRouter · 22MCometAPI · 834.4KCometAPI · 619.7KCometAPI · 437.2KCometAPI · 362.2KCometAPI · 355.5KCometAPI · 362.7KCometAPI · 309.5KCometAPI · 275.2KCometAPI · 302.3KAPIPASS · 1.2KAPIPASS · 700APIPASS · 3.3KAPIPASS · 90.8KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Paid
Starting price
Free tier
$20per month · free tier available
$4per month · free tier available
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Plans
Free FreeStandard Custom/moBusiness Custom/moEnterprise Custom
Hobby FreePro $20/moEnterprise Custom
Free Trial FreePay-as-you-go Custom/usage-basedEnterprise Custom/mo
Usage-Based Credits $1,250
Capabilities input → output
Input
AudioVideoTextImages
TextImagesAudio
TextImages
TextImages
Output
VideoTextImagesAudio
VideoTextImagesAudio
VideoTextImages
VideoTextImagesAudio
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI APILarge Language Models (LLMs)
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeAI API
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
5
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APIs
LLM gateway
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Image generation
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Development
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