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AI economics
OpenRouter pricing 2026: real 30-day bill vs direct providers
OpenRouter takes 5.5% on credit purchases with a $0.80 minimum, then passes provider rates through. Here is the real 30-day bill across Anthropic, OpenAI, and Mistral at four workload mixes, with the anti-patterns where the routing tax stops being worth it.
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