The open OpenRouter alternative — a unified inference gateway and live leaderboard for LLMs and multimodal AI. OpenAI-compatible, 300+ models, and cost / latency / quality-aware routing — without the vendor lock-in.
$5 free credits · no card · works with the OpenAI SDK
Routing across the entire frontier — and every serious open model
Built for teams that ship AI products — with the primitives you'd otherwise build yourself.
Point your existing OpenAI SDK at api.llmcloud.ai and you're done. Streaming, tools, structured output, vision, PDFs — all pass through unchanged.
A prompt classifier picks the cheapest model that meets your quality bar. Cascade to a stronger one only when the first refuses. Save 40–80% on the same task.
FLUX, Nano Banana, Imagen, Veo, Whisper, ElevenLabs — one shape for text, images, speech and video. Not a text-only surface with attachments bolted on.
Public benchmarks + our own evals + real gateway traffic. Filter by task, price ceiling, latency budget, context window — not a single averaged Elo.
Every request is logged with cost, latency, and token usage. PII redaction, prompt-injection filters, and per-key spend limits ship in the box.
Bring your own provider keys and pay providers directly. Set fallback chains, exclude regions, cap per-request cost. You stay in control.
Not one averaged Elo. Combine public benchmarks (MMLU-Pro, GPQA, LiveBench, SWE-Bench), our task-specific evals, and real traffic from the gateway.
Preview data · full leaderboard ships with launch
A lightweight classifier reads each prompt and picks from a candidate pool you control. Fallback if the primary refuses or times out. Cascade if a cheap model isn't confident. You define the tradeoff — we do the work.
If it speaks OpenAI, it speaks llmcloud. Streaming, tools, vision, audio, structured outputs — supported unchanged.
import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({
baseURL: "https://api.llmcloud.ai/v1",
apiKey: process.env.LLMCLOUD_API_KEY,
});
const res = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "auto:cost", // let llmcloud pick
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Explain MoE in one line." }],
// optional: constrain the pool
extra_body: { quality_floor: 0.85, max_latency_ms: 800 },
});No markup on tokens. No surprise inflation. Buy credits, or bring your own provider keys and pay them directly.
Join the beta. Get $5 in credits. One line of code from your first request.