OpenRouter alternatives: AI API aggregator and gateway options compared on model coverage, billing units, free tiers, OpenAI compatibility, rate limits and migration effort.
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OpenRouter alternatives: AI API aggregator and gateway options compared on model coverage, billing units, free tiers, OpenAI compatibility, rate limits and migration effort.
LLM gateway comparison: self-hosted and managed AI API gateways compared on protocol compatibility, billing units, timeout and retry semantics, idempotency, quotas and observability.
AI API aggregator companion: machine-readable catalog of 300+ models behind one key and one base URL, with routing patterns, cost accounting, OpenAI SDK and curl examples.
Seedance 2.0 API (seedance-2.0 / seedance-2.0-mini / seedance-2.0-fast): per-second pricing by resolution, text-to-video and image-to-video examples, parameters and limits.
Grok Image API (Grok Imagine 1.5, grok-imagine-1.5-apimart): model ids, per-image pricing, text-to-image and edit routes, moderation behaviour and runnable API examples.
Claude Opus 5 API (claude-opus-5): model id, per-million-token pricing, cache write and cache read rates, streaming and Anthropic-style requests through an OpenAI-compatible gateway.
Unified AI API model catalog: machine-readable JSON for 300+ models behind one OpenAI-compatible API, with modality, billing unit, per-image, per-second and per-token pricing and doc links.
OpenAI-compatible API migration kit: drop-in /v1/images/generations and chat examples, a compatibility matrix, rollback switches and a checklist for moving workloads between AI API gateways.
Nano Banana Pro API (gemini-3-pro-image-preview): model id, per-image pricing, aspect ratios, resolution tiers, curl, Python and JavaScript examples with async task polling.
GPT-5.5 API (gpt-5.5 / gpt-5.5-pro): model ids, per-million-token pricing, context limits, streaming, tool calling and OpenAI-compatible base URL examples.
Seedance 2.5 API (seedance-2.5): per-second pricing by resolution, up to 30-second text-to-video and reference-media workflows, with cURL and Python examples and measured costs.
Grok Imagine API guide: image generation and editing on the grok-imagine routes, per-image pricing, prompt recipes with example renders and async task polling examples.
AI API proxy SDK for Python: retry with idempotency keys, rate-limit backoff, task polling, cost accounting and typed errors for OpenAI-compatible AI API gateways.
Nano Banana Pro prompts: tested prompt recipes with example renders, aspect ratios, the model id (gemini-3-pro-image-preview) and the cost each render reported.
Ownership, licensing and retention for GPT Image 2.6 output.
Use GPT Image 2.6 from Claude, Cursor and VS Code via MCP.
Prompt patterns for legible in-image text with GPT Image 2.6.
Six copy-paste curl requests for GPT Image 2.6.
GPT Image 2.6 price per image, comparisons and volume planning.
Working Python snippets for GPT Image 2.6: generate, poll, batch.
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