OpenRouter

license

proprietary(hosted gateway)

source

closed(SDK present, core service closed)

self-host

none

Proprietary hosted routing gateway, the closed counterpart to open gateways (LiteLLM); listed as closed in the recipe.

• https://openrouter.ai/ recorded 2026-06-04

  hosted unified API gateway across 400+ models/60+ providers; proprietary service (no self-host)