Large Language Models (LLMs)

Claude Platform vs OpenRouter

Compare Claude Platform and OpenRouter side-by-side. See feature differences and pricing in the Large Language Models (LLMs) category.

Claude Platform

by Anthropic

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Pricing: Usage-based per million tokens: Claude Haiku 4.5 at $1 input and $5 output, Claude Opus 5 at $5 and $25.

Claude Platform is Anthropic's API and console for building apps and agents on Claude models, billed per token with no seat plans.

11 /18 features Full profile

OpenRouter

by OpenRouter

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Pricing: Free plan capped at 50 requests a day; Standard pay as you go with a 5.5% fee on credit purchases; Business 8%; Enterprise by quote.

OpenRouter is an LLM API gateway for developers: one key and one endpoint for models from many AI labs, paid as you go with a platform fee on credits.

14 /18 features Full profile

Feature Comparison

Large Language Models (LLMs) features side-by-side

Feature	Claude Platform 11/18 features	OpenRouter 14/18 features
Published context window size The vendor states the maximum input length.	Yes	Yes
Image input support Accepts images as part of the prompt.	Yes	Yes
Audio input support Accepts speech or audio files directly.	No	Yes
Function and tool calling Can return a structured call to your own tools.	Yes	Yes
JSON schema output mode Guarantees output conforming to a supplied schema.	Yes	Yes
Extended reasoning mode An explicit setting that trades latency for harder thinking.	Yes	Yes
Prompt caching discount Repeated prefixes are billed at a reduced rate.	Yes	Yes
Batch inference API Submit work offline for a lower price.	Yes	Yes
Fine-tuning offered Customers can tune the model on their own data.	No	No
Open weights release The weights are downloadable, whatever the licence.	No	No
Zero data retention option The vendor will contract not to store request content.	Yes	Yes
Regional data residency Inference can be pinned to a named region.	Yes	Yes
Published safety evaluations A model card or system card with evaluation results.	No	No
Free tier or trial credits You can test it before contracting.	No	Yes
Enterprise agreement available Committed-use contracts with support terms.	Yes	Yes
Published deprecation policy The vendor states how long a model version lives.	Yes	No
Published benchmark results First-party benchmark numbers are disclosed.	No	Yes
Embeddings endpoint The same vendor also serves embeddings.	No	Yes
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