OpenRouter model tradeoff explorer

Task intelligence (Artificial Analysis) vs operational/logistic quality (OpenRouter, 1-wk) vs cost.Hover any point for details.

109 models shown
Cheap ≤$0.5/M Mid $0.5-2/M Pricey >$2/M 3-way Pareto

Intelligence vs Logistic

Dashed lines = medians. Top-right = strong on both. Color = 7:1 blended cost.

Balanced quality vs cost

Quality = min(percentile-intel, percentile-logistic). Up-left = best value. Line = value frontier.

Shortlist by quality

ModelIntelLogisticQualityCost $/M

Data: OpenRouter performance stats (throughput, E2E latency, tool-call & structured-output error, cache hit, uptime - volume-weighted across providers, 1-week) and Artificial Analysis benchmarks (Omniscience, Briefcase, GDPval, LCR, tau2-Telecom). Intelligence & logistic scores are min-max normalized to /10; quality is the min of the two percentile ranks. Cost is 7:1 input:output blended $/M. 109 models with all three dimensions shown.