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codai vs OpenRouter

What each one is, how it is priced, where data lives, and when OpenRouter is the better pick.

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In short

OpenRouter is a US-based hosted API in front of hundreds of models, billed in USD at provider list price plus a fee on credit purchases. codai is one managed model name billed per verified task in EUR, with its gateway and database in the EU.

When OpenRouter is the better pick

Pick OpenRouter if you want to choose among hundreds of specific models and providers yourself, pay provider list prices in USD, or need its EU in-region inference routing on a Business or Enterprise plan.

codai compared with OpenRouter, checked on October 2, 2026
DimensioncodaiOpenRouterSources
What it is / deploymentManaged gateway (SaaS). Runs on Cloud Run in GCP europe-west1 (Belgium). One public model name: codai.Hosted SaaS: “one OpenAI-compatible API in front of hundreds of models from many providers”. No self-hostable gateway found.
Open sourceNo. Not open source and not self-hostable.SDKs (Apache-2.0) and a Terraform provider (MIT) are open; per its terms the service code is “the property of OpenRouter”.
Wire formatsOpenAI Chat Completions, OpenAI Responses and Anthropic Messages.OpenAI Chat Completions and Completions; a stateless Responses API (store: true or previous_response_id returns 400); Anthropic Messages.
Pricing modelMonthly plans in EUR: Free (5 verified tasks), BYOK €5, Student €40 (33 tasks), Builder €100 (83), Pro €300 (250). Overage €1.20 per verified task; unverified tasks are billed at raw token cost.Inference at provider list price; a fee on credit purchases: 5.5% on Standard, 8% on Business (card minimum $0.80, crypto 5%). BYOK free up to $25,000 of list-price inference a month, 5% after.
Data residencyGateway and database in the EU (europe-west1, Belgium). Model inference region depends on the upstream deployment.EU in-region routing on Business and Enterprise only (fails closed; excludes Auto Router, Batch API and web search). Privacy policy: personal data “may be transferred to our servers in the US”.
Routingcodai routes each request to a tier of Anthropic's current Claude models (Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5 or Haiku 5.5) and fails over between approved deployments; the x-codai-routed-to header names the model that answered.Auto Router (openrouter/auto, no extra fee); provider load balancing weighted by price, tunable with order, only, ignore, sort, max_price; model fallbacks.
Prompt cachingOn by default for every request.Passes Anthropic cache_control through (5-minute or 1-hour TTL) with sticky provider routing; optional exact-match response cache. Prompt caching is not on the Free plan.
MCPRemote MCP server (Streamable HTTP) with OAuth 2.1.Hosted MCP server with OAuth, positioned as a development aid: “To actually run models in your app, keep calling the OpenRouter API directly”.
Billing currency / invoicesPrices and charges in EUR; invoices issued by the Romanian seller.USD (“the base currency is US dollars”). Cards, AliPay, USDC; invoicing and purchase orders on Enterprise; VAT calculated by Stripe, EU VAT IDs supported.
Company HQIMS SRL (Interactive Media Solutions S.R.L.), Târgu Jiu, Romania.OpenRouter, Inc., New York, NY, United States (New York law).

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