OpenRouter
How vibe coders and indie builders use OpenRouter: 218 projects built with it and 6 built for it since May 2026.
Projects built with it
218
Share of stated stacks, 4 wks
1.6%
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
+13%
Add-ons built for it
6
Share of stated stacks, per week
Share rather than counts, so changes in how many posts a subreddit lets through don't show up as trends.
Often used with
- OpenAI API 82
- Claude API 73
- Gemini API 67
- Ollama 48
- Groq 35
- DeepSeek 29
- Claude Code 22
- Python 20
What's built with it
Latest projects built with OpenRouter
- jev-job-search — Automatically fills and submits job applications across common job board forms, using a classifier model for fixed-answer fields and Claude for written answers.“Built an open source tool that applies to jobs for me with Jev and Claude”
- MeetNote — Transcribes Google Meet captions in the browser and generates a summary with decisions and action items after the call.“I built a Chrome extension that takes notes in Google Meet without adding a bot to the call”
- jev-job-search — Automatically finds internship postings, ranks them, and fills out application forms in a browser for the user to review.“Built an open-source tool that applies to internships for me”
- The Imitation Desk — Produces a clay-animated news show where four AI model characters debate and discuss news stories with lines generated live by their models.“I built a clay-animated AI news show where GPT, Claude, Grok and Llama write every line themselves”
- OpenTerminalUI — Provides a self-hosted stock research terminal with charts, fundamentals, screening, backtesting, and an AI agent that summarizes a stock from live data and filings.“Spent way too many weekends building my own "Bloomberg terminal" for Indian + US stocks. Here's the AI agent doing a quick read on CCL”
- OpenNotch — Turns the MacBook notch into an AI assistant that can run tools on the Mac, asking for approval before risky actions.“I spent my evenings making the MacBook notch useful: an open-source AI assistant + a jelly blob named Puff" + video.”
- Chronicle — Runs a fantasy text RPG where an AI game master narrates while the engine enforces world rules, inventory, injuries and travel as database state.“I made the game master of my AI RPG swappable, so your own Claude Code or Codex can run the world”
- TabX — Adds an AI side panel to Chrome that semantically searches past visited pages, summarizes content, groups browsing sessions, and suggests next tabs.“I built the missing AI companion for Chrome because Google just wouldn't. Get the power of Dia and Comet in Chrome”
- FlashTranslate — Translates YouTube subtitles, full web pages, and selected text in the browser using the user's own AI provider API key.“I wanted one BYOK AI translator for YouTube and the web, so I built FlashTranslate”
- Fogar — Replaces the Chrome new tab page with saved tab sessions, tab search, widgets, and an ask box answered by a local or user-chosen language model.“I built a new tab page that saves your tabs, finds them as you type, and answers questions with an AI that runs on your computer”
- Every Halloween our game studio… — Runs a season of automated boxing matches between monsters designed and programmed by 325 AI models, broadcast live on YouTube and Twitch.“Every Halloween our game studio tries to do something fun. This year we asked 325 AI models to design monsters and write their brains, then put the monsters in a boxing league.”
- OmniNotch — Puts a multi-tool dashboard in the Mac notch with sales stats, AI usage tracking, a teleprompter, clipboard history, a file shelf, and music, weather, calendar and note widgets.“I know there are a hundred notch apps already. Here's why I built another one.”
- PocketResume — Rewrites resume bullets to match a job posting's keywords and drafts cover letters and application form answers using an AI key.“I built a free Chrome extension that rewrites your CV for every job posting in one click”
- p-r-y agent — Runs a browser agent that redacts sensitive regions like passwords, IDs and faces on-device before sending pages to cloud models.“Built a browser agent that keeps your personal data off cloud servers (now live)”
- Vehla — Combines many macOS utilities such as app launching, clipboard history, AI text actions, dictation, notes and window management into one command palette.“Vehla – I made a native macOS command center that replaces a bunch of apps I used every day”
Latest add-ons built for OpenRouter
- OpenRouter Monitor — Shows OpenRouter credit balance and spend over time, and sends a low-balance notification on Android.“I built an Android app that warns me before I run out of OpenRouter credits (BYOK, no account)”
- UsageDeck — Shows quota usage, reset times, and spend estimates for multiple AI coding tools in one desktop tray panel.“I expanded an open-source AI usage dashboard to support 13 providers across macOS, Windows, and Linux”
- Auscope — Audits LLM responses in the background using multiple models from different providers and returns a verified, uncertain, or unreliable verdict.“Hey, I created a tool that catches when your LLM is confidently wrong, in production, in real time — looking for beta testers.”
- ORList — Compares OpenRouter AI models in a sortable, filterable table with estimated daily cost and a score based on intelligence per dollar.“Scored OpenRouter models browser”
- AIMonitor — Shows usage quotas for multiple AI services in the macOS menu bar.“Vibecoded this for myself but might help other coders with tracking multiple ai token/agent quotas right from macOS menu bar”
- OpenRouter Tracker — Shows OpenRouter credits, recent usage, model activity and API keys in an iOS app with home screen widgets.“I built an iOS app for tracking OpenRouter usage and credits”
Pitched as alternatives to OpenRouter
- WorldNeural — Aggregates AI news, papers, models, companies, benchmarks and people into a connected, source-linked knowledge database.“I got tired of jumping between OpenRouter, Hugging Face, GitHub and dozens of sources to research AI — so I built WorldNeural”
- ObitMC — Serves Qwen language model inference through an OpenAI-compatible API by running on interruptible cloud compute.“Test my new LLM inference engine and get 100M free tokens and then 60% cheaper inference”
- GPU Router — Routes LLM API requests across multiple discounted inference providers behind a single endpoint, choosing the cheapest provider for each request.“I built Openrouter, except you save 88% on GPT 6 Astra, 74% on Fable 5.1, 98% on GLM 5.3, and 400+ more models”
- AI Hotspot — Shares a locally running AI setup with chosen people over a peer-to-peer link through secret access links.“AI Hotspot - share your local AI like Wi‑Fi. Chats, agents, mini-apps, and a local API.”
- The issue of different API… — Routes AI API requests through a proxy that caches semantically similar answers to cut token costs and compares models across providers.“The issue of different API Providers”
- Entelligence Model Router — Routes each coding agent turn to a model chosen per turn, sending routine steps to cheaper models and escalating harder ones.“Using Claude Opus, GPT-5.5, or GLM-5.2 for every agent turn is surprisingly wasteful”
- Cursor-Plan2API — Runs a local OpenAI-compatible API gateway that forwards requests to Cursor CLI so a Cursor Pro subscription can serve agent tools.“🚀 Cursor subscription for Hermes Agent? ✅ Possible RIGHT NOW — skip OpenRouter 💸”
- OmniRoute — Routes OpenAI-compatible requests from local tools to hundreds of LLM providers with automatic fallback and token-compression passes.“I spent ~4.5 months building a free, self-hosted AI gateway: 237 providers (90+ free), auto-fallback, and a 10-engine token-compression pipeline (MIT)”
- LLM Gateway — Routes LLM API requests from one OpenAI-compatible endpoint to many model providers, with fallback, caching, and per-model cost tracking.“I built an open-source, self-hostable alternative to OpenRouter — one API for 280+ models, with cost tracking”
- Fusion Local Proxy — Runs a prompt through multiple LLMs locally and synthesizes their answers into one response.“Fusion Local Proxy - amplify AI intelligence locally”
- OpenCredits — Provides an embeddable checkout and credit-based API key system that meters AI model usage and handles billing for apps.“Anyone building AI apps? This can save you a lot of work.”
- AiAssist SECURE — Puts multiple AI model providers behind one dashboard using the user's own API keys, with options to self-host or white-label.“My boss wanted me to use 12 AI subscriptions. So I built my own.”
- ByteChat — Sends one prompt to several AI models in a shared chatroom and shows their answers side by side, using the user's own API keys.“I was paying for 3 AI subscriptions just to compare answers — so I built a chatroom where they all reply at once, on your own API keys. Roast it.”
- LLMTest — Benchmarks LLM models against a specific use case and routes requests through one API with fallbacks.“Built something to lower LLM costs and improve output for devs”
- agent-data — Gives AI agents a CLI to pull structured real-time data such as flight fares, restaurants, RSS feeds, and social media feeds from one unified interface.“Building a tool to give agents access to flight fares, company enrichment, social media feeds, and more”