OpenRouter / Model Gateways
Model-agnostic routing / aggregation layer
OpenRouter and LLM gateways let applications route across dozens of models by price and performance, turning frontier models into substitutable commodities at the API boundary. This aggregation layer erodes lab pricing power and is where switching costs collapse.
Function
Cross-model routing
How it fits the stack
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OpenRouter / Model Gateways in the AI stack. OpenRouter / Model Gateways with its immediate upstream dependencies (top) and downstream dependents (bottom) in the AI value chain. Hover a node in 3D, or read the full relationships below.
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