> There's not even a way to compare providers, AFAICT
That's not quite true. The only thing they don't show per-provider is benchmark data, cause I don't think they are doing continuous benchmarking of each model from each provider, as I assume they feel that's too expensive. You can see hugely detailed breakdowns for near-time metrics per provider for any model by visiting the page for that model on Openrouter. For example see the page for Qwen 3.8 27B: https://openrouter.ai/qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Some of the killer stats they show per provider:
- Pricing: Effective price accounting for cache hit rate, by provider
- Performance: Throughput in tok/s, latency, E2E latency, tool call error rate, structured output error rate, and more; all per provider.
- Uptime: You have to click on the provider to see their specific uptime, but doing so does show the last-7-days uptime, and you can click to see more.
That's not quite true. The only thing they don't show per-provider is benchmark data, cause I don't think they are doing continuous benchmarking of each model from each provider, as I assume they feel that's too expensive. You can see hugely detailed breakdowns for near-time metrics per provider for any model by visiting the page for that model on Openrouter. For example see the page for Qwen 3.8 27B: https://openrouter.ai/qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Some of the killer stats they show per provider:
- Pricing: Effective price accounting for cache hit rate, by provider
- Performance: Throughput in tok/s, latency, E2E latency, tool call error rate, structured output error rate, and more; all per provider.
- Uptime: You have to click on the provider to see their specific uptime, but doing so does show the last-7-days uptime, and you can click to see more.