OpenRouter Introduces 'Cost per Session' Metric for Real-World Model Pricing
AccBalanced · x · 2026-08-18
OpenRouter has added a 'Cost per Session' data layer to its platform and API to assess the real-world cost of using models across various tasks and harnesses. The release includes a comparison of Kimi K3 against Sol, Fable, and Opus variants on Hermes, highlighting actual session-based pricing differences. The dataset is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
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