Pick OpenRouter if
developers who want one router and will read per-model token rows.
Read the OpenRouter pageOpenRouter vs Voyage AI
Our take
Pick OpenRouter if developers who want one router and will read per-model token rows. Pick Voyage AI if rAG teams who will burn the 200 million free tokens on voyage-4 / voyage-4-lite and then pay $0.02–$0.12 per million, not a team looking for a $20 chat seat. Skip OpenRouter if people who want a single branded chat seat (ChatGPT) or a local desktop runtime (LM Studio).
Best for
OpenRouter One key across many models
Voyage AI Retrieval quality you can meter in tokens
Free plan
OpenRouter $0 · 25+ free models; 50 requests/day; 5 workspaces; no card. Free models also 20 rpm
Voyage AI $0 · first 200 million tokens on voyage-4-large, voyage-4, voyage-4-lite, voyage-context-4, and voyage-code-4. First 50 million on voyage-finance-2 / voyage-law-2 / voyage-code-2. Multimodal: first 200M text tokens and 150B pixels
Lowest paid
OpenRouter Not published by the vendor
Voyage AI Text embed $0.02
Next step up
OpenRouter
Voyage AI Rerank $0.05
Watch out
OpenRouter Free is 50 requests/day
Voyage AI No public seat
Last checked
OpenRouter 2026-10-21 · openrouter.ai/pricing
Voyage AI 2026-10-22 · docs.voyageai.com/docs/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Voyage AI if
rAG teams who will burn the 200 million free tokens on voyage-4 / voyage-4-lite and then pay $0.02–$0.12 per million, not a team looking for a $20 chat seat.
Read the Voyage AI page