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OpenRouter Credits

LLM 4.8/10

Pre-paid credits routed to 300+ models at provider list prices; credits never expire; Kimi K2 Thinking is $0.60/$2.50 per 1M on OpenRouter; 1M free BYOK requests/mo then 5% BYOK fee

Requests / month
1M

OpenRouter Credits scores 4.8/10 for free value in LLM. The main constraint: Paid — Credits, +5.5% purchase fee ($0.80 min). Pre-paid credits routed to 300+ models at provider list prices; Kimi K2 Thinking $0.60/$2.50 per 1M; credits never expire; 1M free BYOK requests/mo then 5% BYOK fee.

Category LLM Kind Paid plan

Free value score

4.8 / 10
Show the math
Model Quality 3.5/10
value = 19 artificial_analysis_score
weighted score = 0.2 * 3.5/10
Requests 7/10
value = 1000000 req/mo
weighted score = 0.1 * 7/10
Access 10/10
value = 10/10
score = 10/10
Price Efficiency 4.9/10
value = 930233 tok/$
weighted score = 0.7 * 4.9/10

Key metrics

Kimi K2 19 Best model
1.0M R/mo Requests/month
$1.075/M Price

What you get

Paid — Credits, +5.5% purchase fee ($0.80 min). Pre-paid credits routed to 300+ models at provider list prices; Kimi K2 Thinking $0.60/$2.50 per 1M; credits never expire; 1M free BYOK requests/mo then 5% BYOK fee

Pay provider list price (e.g. Kimi K2 Thinking blended $1.075/M) +5.5% one-time on purchase; no markup per-call

Gotchas

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Sources

paid value llm-providers
Open service ← All LLM

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