OrcaRouter
orcarouter.aiFrontier AI quality at open-source prices, zero token markup.
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About
OrcaRouter is an AI model router that automatically grades each prompt by difficulty and routes it to the most cost-effective model across OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and 200+ other providers. It is OpenAI SDK-compatible, requiring only a one-line base URL change to integrate. The platform charges no markup on tokens, instead monetizing through optional team feature plans.
Problem
Running AI applications on frontier models is expensive, but blindly switching to cheaper models risks degrading answer quality.
For
developers and engineering teams building AI-powered applications
How it works
Each prompt is graded for difficulty in under 1ms, then routed to the optimal model — frontier for hard reasoning, open-source for routine tasks — with traffic sent directly to the provider at their published rate with zero token markup.
Business model
freemium
Status
launched