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openrouter-pricing-basics
Understand OpenRouter pricing, calculate costs, and optimize spend. Use when budgeting, comparing model costs, or tracking spend. Triggers: 'openrouter pricing', 'openrouter cost', 'model pricing', 'openrouter budget', 'how much does openrouter cost'.
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# OpenRouter Pricing Basics
## Overview
OpenRouter charges per token with separate rates for prompt (input) and completion (output) tokens. Prices are listed per token in the models API (multiply by 1M for per-million rates). Credits are prepaid with a 5.5% processing fee ($0.80 minimum). Free models are available for testing and low-volume use.
## Prerequisites
- An OpenRouter API key (`sk-or-v1-...`) exported as `OPENROUTER_API_KEY` — see the `openrouter-install-auth` skill for setup
- `curl` and `jq` for the model-pricing and credit-balance queries
- Python 3.8+ with the OpenAI SDK plus the `requests` package for the cost-calculation and generation-endpoint snippets
- Prepaid credits for paid models — the public models/pricing endpoint needs no auth, but real completions require credits or a `:free` model
## Instructions
