openrouter-ai-models-guide

openrouter-ai-models-guide is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nirholas/three.ws. It costs 64 tokens per session (1,353 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to OpenRouter, one API that can send requests to many AI model providers. It covers choosing models, pricing, routing, fallbacks, and API integration.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare models, route tasks to suitable providers, create fallback chains, and connect AI applications to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Mistral, and other models.
Why use it?
Using several AI providers normally means learning and maintaining separate APIs. OpenRouter provides a common entry point and supports choosing or switching models for different tasks.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nirholas/three.ws/openrouter-ai-models-guide
Any agent
npx skills add nirholas/three.ws --skill openrouter-ai-models-guide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nirholas/three.ws

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00064 $0.01353
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00677
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00271
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00135

Measured yesterday against content hash c5a9c3605c74, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

openrouter-ai-models-guide scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
data/skills/general/openrouter-ai-models-guide/SKILL.md · 161 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 161 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OpenRouter AI Models Guide

OpenRouter provides a unified API for 200+ AI models. This guide covers model selection, pricing, routing, and integration with SperaxOS.

What Is OpenRouter?

A single API endpoint that routes requests to 200+ models:

Your App → OpenRouter API → Model Provider
                              ├── OpenAI (GPT-4, o1, o3)
                              ├── Anthropic (Claude 4, Sonnet, Haiku)
                              ├── Google (Gemini 2.5, Pro, Flash)
                              ├── Meta (Llama 4, Maverick)
                              ├── Mistral (Large, Medium)
                              ├── DeepSeek (V3, R1)
                              └── 50+ more providers

Quick Start

curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-20250514",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

Model Selection Guide

By Task

Task Recommended Model Why
Complex reasoning claude-sonnet-4, o3 Best logical reasoning
Coding claude-sonnet-4, deepseek-v3 Best code generation
Creative writing claude-sonnet-4, gpt-4o Most creative output
Fast responses gemini-flash, claude-haiku Lowest latency
Long context gemini-pro-2.5 (1M), claude-sonnet-4 (200K) Largest context windows
DeFi analysis claude-sonnet-4, gpt-4o Best structured data handling
Vision/images gpt-4o, gemini-pro Best image understanding
JSON output claude-sonnet-4, gpt-4o Most reliable structured output
Budget deepseek-v3, llama-4 Cheapest per token

By Price (per 1M tokens)

Tier Input Output Models
Free $0 $0 Selected models with limits
Budget $0.10-0.50 $0.30-1.50 DeepSeek, Llama, Gemma
Standard $1-5 $3-15 GPT-4o, Claude Sonnet, Gemini Pro
Premium $10-15 $30-60 o3, Claude Opus

Read the full file on GitHub · 161 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 161 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A c5a9c3605c74

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openrouter-ai-models-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository nirholas/three.ws (110 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 1,353 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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