AI BriefingAverage per-token price via OpenRouter plunges
·2026.07.29 02:30
Key point
The average price per token for models routed through OpenRouter has dropped sharply this year.
Details
Calculating a volume-weighted average across the models in OpenRouter's catalog, the average price of tokens routed through the gateway has dropped sharply this year.
This suggests that, driven by competition among various LLM models and efficient infrastructure provisioning, the average cost developers pay when calling models via API has fallen significantly.
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