Openrouter lists 6 models and Recursive 1. Below: line-up, price tiers, the cheapest model for each capability, and what each costs for five real workloads.
| Openrouter | Recursive | |
|---|---|---|
| Models listed | 6 | 1 |
| Models with published pricing | 6 | 1 |
| Typical price (median, 3:1 blend per 1M) | $-1000000.0000 | n/a |
| Cheapest paid model | Auto Router ($-1000000.0000) | n/a |
| Longest context | Auto Router (2M) | Recursive: Flint (free) (262K) |
| Free models | 1 | 1 |
| Newest model | Auto Router (Beta) (2026-07-17) | Recursive: Flint (free) (2026-10-21) |
| Price changes in the last 90 days | 0 | 0 |
For each workload: the cheapest model from each provider that can actually do it (fits the context window; tool calling required for the agent), and its monthly cost at list price.
| Workload (per month) | Openrouter | Recursive |
|---|---|---|
| Customer-support chatbot 50,000 conversations — each a 6-turn conversation | $-95000000.0000 with Auto Router | no suitable model |
| RAG search over documents 20,000 questions — each a question answered from ~8 retrieved passages | $-130000000.0000 with Auto Router | no suitable model |
| Coding / tool-using agent 2,000 tasks — each a multi-step task with tool calls and file context | $-132000000.0000 with Auto Router | no suitable model |
| Batch summarisation 10,000 documents — each a 6,000-word report summarised to a page | $-86000000.0000 with Auto Router | no suitable model |
| Long-document analysis 500 documents — each a 150-page contract or codebase read in one pass | $-51000000.0000 with Auto Router | no suitable model |
| You need | Openrouter | Recursive |
|---|---|---|
| Any model | Auto Router ($-1000000.0000) | none listed |
| With tool calling | Auto Router ($-1000000.0000) | none listed |
| With image input | Auto Router ($-1000000.0000) | none listed |
| With reasoning mode | Auto Router ($-1000000.0000) | none listed |
| 128K+ context | Auto Router ($-1000000.0000) | none listed |
| 1M+ context | Auto Router ($-1000000.0000) | none listed |
| Model type | Openrouter | Recursive |
|---|---|---|
| text+image+file+audio+video->text+image | 2 | 0 |
| text+image->text | 1 | 0 |
| text->text | 3 | 1 |
| Price per 1M (3:1 blend) | Openrouter | Recursive |
|---|---|---|
| Free | 1 | 1 |
| Under $0.50 | 0 | 0 |
| $0.50 – $3 | 0 | 0 |
| $3 – $10 | 0 | 0 |
| $10 and up | 0 | 0 |
It depends on the job: Openrouter offers the broader line-up (6 models vs 1), Openrouter the longest context (2M tokens). The workload table above shows which wins for chat, RAG, agents, batch jobs and long documents.
Openrouter: Openrouter lists 6 models and Recursive lists 1.
Openrouter: Openrouter's longest is Auto Router at 2M tokens; Recursive's is Recursive: Flint (free) at 262K.
Openrouter: 1 free model (e.g. Free Models Router). Recursive: 1 free model (e.g. Recursive: Flint (free)).
Openrouter: 3 of 6 models accept images. Recursive: 0 of 1.