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OpenRouter vs SGLang

OpenRouter

openrouter.ai

SGLang

sglang.io

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FigureOpenRouterSGLang
Price fromFreeFree
Free planYesYes
Free trial——
Open source——
WebYes—
macOS—Yes
Linux—Yes
APIYesYes
Self-hosted—Yes
Plans published41
Spec score · LLM Gateway Software7.7 (#17)8.1 (#12)
Spec score · LLM gateways7.8 (#20)8.4 (#11)
API compatibilityThe 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.
IntegrationsThe 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.
SupportOpenRouter 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.

Plans

OpenRouter

  • BusinessFree
  • FreeFree
  • StandardFree
  • EnterprisePriced on request

OpenRouter pricing →

SGLang

  • SGLangFree

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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.

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