Vatan Gateway vs OpenRouter
OpenRouter is the best way for one developer to reach every model on a card.
OpenRouter is the best way for one developer to reach every model on a card. It is not built for a finance function or a risk function, and that is the whole difference: we are the account an organisation buys, with caps per team, a log per person and one invoice.
Use OpenRouter if
You are one person or one team, you want the widest model choice, and nobody needs to approve or audit what you send. It is cheaper and it is genuinely excellent at that.
| Vatan | OpenRouter | |
|---|---|---|
| Models | 399 models | 500+ models, 80+ providers |
| Scale | New | 10M+ users, 300T+ tokens a month |
| SSO and organisations | SSO on DNS-verified domains, roles, invites | Not offered on their homepage |
| Spend cap per team and per key | Enforced before the call | Credits |
| Audit trail per person | Every request, attributed | Not offered on their homepage |
| Tool servers, governed | The whole MCP plane | no |
| Invoiced billing Honest: our invoicing is not built yet either. Neither of us can send a finance team a document today. | Coming, on the Team plan | Prepaid credits |
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