OpenRouter vs SGLang
OpenRouter
openrouter.aiSGLang
sglang.ioSide by side
| Figure | OpenRouter | SGLang |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 4 | 1 |
| Spec score · LLM Gateway Software | 7.7 (#17) | 8.1 (#12) |
| Spec score · LLM gateways | 7.8 (#20) | 8.4 (#11) |
| API compatibility | The API supports the OpenAI SDK as a drop-in replacement when pointed at OpenRouter. | SGLang is compatible with Hugging Face and OpenAI APIs, and its site describes OpenAI-compatible endpoints. |
| Integrations | The integrations directory lists tools including Open WebUI, Cline, LangChain, Vercel AI SDK, and Zapier as compatible with OpenRouter. | The README lists deployment and orchestration integrations including Ray Serve, NVIDIA Dynamo, and llm-d. |
| Support | OpenRouter directs users to its help center, support ticket form, documentation, and community Discord; pricing lists community, email, or dedicated support according to plan. | The project points users to GitHub issues, Slack, Discord, and community discussions for questions and help. |
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In their own words
OpenRouter
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SGLang
SGLang is a free, open-source inference framework for serving large language, vision-language and diffusion models. It targets agentic workloads, reinforcement-learning rollouts and large-scale serving, from one GPU to distributed clusters. Runtime features include RadixAttention, prefix caching and multi-GPU parallelism. Listed optimizations include disaggregated prefill and decode, speculative decoding, a zero-overhead scheduler and optimized GPU kernels. Supported models include DeepSeek, Qwen, GPT-OSS, Llama, Mistral and GLM. SGLang works with Hugging Face and OpenAI APIs and exposes OpenAI-compatible endpoints. It installs with pip or Docker and supports self-hosted deployment. Hardware support spans NVIDIA and AMD GPUs, Google TPUs, Intel GPUs and CPUs, Apple Silicon, Huawei Ascend NPUs and Moore Threads GPUs. SGLang Diffusion adds image and video generation. The Apache-2.0 license permits open-source use.