OpenRouter’s weighted average token price fell sharply this year
maferase · reddit · 2026-07-29
The average price of tokens routed through OpenRouter has fallen sharply this year.
The chart measures the weighted average token price across real model volume, using OpenRouter’s catalog pricing. The result suggests that routing and model competition are steadily pushing effective token costs down, even when usage is weighted by actual traffic rather than list prices alone.
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