Agentik vs OpenRouter

What Agentik and OpenRouter publish, feature by feature, read on 10 October 2026. Each sign says Yes, Partly, No or Not published.

	Agentik	OpenRouter
Billing
How you pay	A prepaid balance; each call at the provider’s price. No plan	Prepaid credits for any model, pay as you go, no subscription1
To start free	$5 of credit for eligible new accounts, for 14 days, for low-cost calls	25+ free models from 4 providers, up to 50 requests a day2
Fees	0% markup on tool calls. Top-ups carry 5.5%, minimum $0.80, added on top; none on a first top-up of $10 or less	A 5.5% platform fee on Standard, 8% on Business; with your own keys, no fee on the first $25,000 of inference a month, then 5%2
Agent pays per call over x402	No. Card only, by design	Not published
What your agent can use
Catalog, as published	2,287 tools that run today, from 52 providers (catalog of 10 October 2026)	500+ AI models from 80+ providers, plus server tools such as web search13
SEO and search data	Yes. DataForSEO, SEMScraper and Exa	Not published
Web search and page reading	Yes. Firecrawl, Exa and 8 more	Yes. Web search (Exa, Parallel, Perplexity) and web fetch, as server tools3
Social media data	Yes. 980 tools from TikHub, ScrapeCreators and 2 more	Partly. X search, through Grok models’ built-in search3
Ad libraries	Yes. Adspy.sh, ScrapeCreators, TikHub and DataForSEO	Not published
People, companies and emails	Yes. Icypeas, Leadsforge and 3 more	Not published
Image, video and audio generation	Yes. 200 models from fal.ai	Yes. Image, video and audio models, such as ElevenLabs speech1
Your ad and analytics accounts	Yes. 650 tools on your own ad and analytics accounts, connected once per workspace	Not published
Actions in your own apps (mail, chat, CRM)	No. No mail, chat or CRM actions	Not published
How your agent connects
Remote MCP server	Yes. One server, OAuth or API key	Yes. A remote server for model data, credits and test messages while you build4
Setup for Claude and ChatGPT	Yes. Guides for Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor and Codex	Partly. MCP setup for Claude Code, Claude Desktop and web, Codex and Cursor4
REST API	Yes. REST API and OpenAPI	Yes. OpenAI-compatible API13
Bring your own provider keys	No. Agentik holds the provider accounts	Yes. Your own provider keys, free of fees up to $25,000 of inference a month2
Open source	No. Hosted service	Not published
Control
Price shown before each call	Yes. Each tool’s price, and the most a call can reserve	Partly. Prices published per model and per tool; each generation’s cost reported after43
Spending caps	Yes. Hourly, daily, lifetime and per-tool caps per key	Yes. Budgets and spend controls on paid plans2
A record of every call	Yes. Price, latency and status of every call	Yes. Activity logs, with export2
Team workspace	Yes. Invite teammates	Yes. Organizations for teams, with admin controls12

“Not published” means the pages we read say nothing about it, not that OpenRouter lacks it. Agentik’s column comes from its catalog of 10 October 2026 and its pricing.

• 500+ models behind one APIOpenRouter serves 500+ AI models from 80+ providers through one OpenAI-compatible API, and falls back to other providers when one goes down. Agentik does not route models for your agent’s own reasoning.1
• Your own provider keysWith your own keys, the first $25,000 of list-price inference a month carries no fee, then 5%. Agentik holds its provider accounts and takes no keys.2
• Card, crypto and moreOpenRouter takes cards, crypto and other methods on its paid plans. Agentik takes cards only.2
• Data policies for promptsData policies keep prompts on the models and providers you trust, and the Business plan adds EU and US in-region routing.12

• Paid tools for the agentOpenRouter serves the model your agent thinks with, plus server tools such as web search. Agentik serves the paid tools it calls: 2,287 tools from 52 providers, for SEO and search data, social media, ad libraries, contacts, images and video.3
• Your own ad and analytics accounts650 tools read and change your ad accounts, Google Analytics and Search Console, connected once per workspace. Changes are previewed first and applied only when confirmed.
• Ad research with an analysis of each adAdspy’s 17 tools search Meta and Google ads and analyse each one, from the same balance as every other tool.
• Jobs ready to run101 playbooks each combine several providers for one job, with the prompt to paste and the most the example can cost.

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