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OpenRouter

OpenRouter is an API platform that provides unified access to multiple AI language models through a single interface. OpenRouter acts as a "router" or gateway that lets developers and applications access dozens of different AI models from various providers through one standardized API, rather than having to integrate with each provider separately.

agent ready

Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles OpenRouter the way a machine reads it — 40 machine-readable artifacts across 7 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — OpenRouter scores 67.7/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 56/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 67.7/100 · strong
Contract Quality 17.1 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 10.4 / 20
Commercial Clarity 15.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 6.8 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 56/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile OpenRouter

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for OpenRouter. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 7

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

OpenRouter Chat API

Chat completion endpoints (OpenAI-compatible).

OpenRouter Completions API

Legacy completions endpoint.

OpenRouter Credits API

Account credit balance and usage.

OpenRouter Generation API

Query stats and usage for completed generations.

OpenRouter Keys API

Provisioning and management of API keys.

OpenRouter Models API

Discover available models and their endpoints.

OpenRouter Providers API

List supported providers.

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Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

OpenRouter API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Openrouter Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Features 16

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Free: 25+ models, 50 req/day cap
Pay-As-You-Go: 300+ models, 0% provider markup
5.5% platform fee on credit purchases
Enterprise: volume discounts, custom platform fee
Failed/fallback attempts NOT billed
OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions API
300+ models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, Meta, etc.
Automatic fallback routing on errors
Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) for select providers
Streaming responses
Tool use / function calling (model-dependent)
Vision (model-dependent)
Per-model upstream rate limit passthrough
Bearer token auth
Provider transparency (see live latency/uptime/throughput)
Credits + Stripe payments + crypto

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Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Openrouter Context

21 classes · 1 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

OpenRouter API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 6

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

OpenRouter Chat Message

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ChatCompletionRequest

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ChatCompletionResponse

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ChatMessage

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CompletionRequest

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ModelList

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Openrouter Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Openrouter Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Openrouter Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Openrouter Agentic Access

12 operations · 5 acting

12 operations · 5 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for OpenRouter — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

← All providers · Data indexed from github.com/api-evangelist/openrouter · machine-readable index on apis.io