Novita AI vs OpenRouter
Same workloads, both price lists, refreshed daily. On shared line items today: Novita AI is cheaper on 12 of 30 shared models (input or output price), OpenRouter on 13.
Novita AI
Combines a serverless LLM API (DeepSeek, Llama, Qwen at aggressive per-token prices) with GPU instances and template deployments, one of the few providers covering both sides of the hosting equation..
- Both LLM API and GPU rental under one account
- Aggressive open-weight model pricing
- Template marketplace for common stacks
OpenRouter
One API key for 340+ models across every major provider, with automatic failover and pass-through pricing. The fastest way to hedge provider risk or A/B models without new integrations.
- 340+ models, one integration
- Automatic provider failover
- Pass-through pricing, small platform fee
Shared models, priced by both
List prices refreshed 2026-08-28 ยท input $/1M tokens| Model | Novita AI in/out | OpenRouter in/out | Cheaper input |
|---|---|---|---|
| Llama 3.1 8B | $0.020 / $0.050 | $0.050 / $0.080 | Novita AI |
| Llama 3.2 1B Instruct | $0.020 / $0.020 | $0.027 / $0.201 | Novita AI |
| Llama 3.2 3B | $0.030 / $0.050 | $0.050 / $0.330 | Novita AI |
| Qwen3 8B | $0.035 / $0.138 | $0.117 / $0.455 | Novita AI |
| GPT-OSS 20B | $0.040 / $0.150 | $0.020 / $0.100 | OpenRouter |
| Mistral Nemo | $0.040 / $0.170 | $0.019 / $0.030 | OpenRouter |
| GPT-OSS 120B | $0.050 / $0.250 | $0.180 / $0.800 | Novita AI |
| Gemma 3 12B | $0.050 / $0.100 | $0.050 / $0.150 | tie |
| Nemotron 3 Nano | $0.050 / $0.200 | $0.050 / $0.200 | tie |
| Ling-3.0-Flash | $0.060 / $0.180 | $0.021 / $0.063 | OpenRouter |
| GLM-4.7 Flash | $0.070 / $0.400 | $0.070 / $0.400 | tie |
| Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct | $0.070 / $0.270 | $0.070 / $0.280 | tie |
| Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct | $0.080 / $0.500 | $0.117 / $0.455 | Novita AI |
| Qwen3 30B A3B | $0.090 / $0.450 | $0.120 / $0.500 | Novita AI |
| MythoMax 13B | $0.090 / $0.090 | $1.88 / $1.88 | Novita AI |
| Qwen3 32B | $0.100 / $0.450 | $0.080 / $0.280 | OpenRouter |
| Mimo-V2-Flash | $0.110 / $0.330 | $0.100 / $0.300 | OpenRouter |
| Gemma 3 27B | $0.119 / $0.200 | $0.080 / $0.450 | OpenRouter |
| GLM-4.5 Air | $0.130 / $0.850 | $0.130 / $0.850 | tie |
| Gemma 4 26B A4B | $0.130 / $0.400 | $0.070 / $0.340 | OpenRouter |
| Llama 3.3 70B | $0.135 / $0.400 | $0.710 / $0.710 | Novita AI |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | $0.140 / $0.280 | $0.050 / $0.100 | OpenRouter |
| Gemma 4 31B | $0.140 / $0.400 | $0.090 / $0.340 | OpenRouter |
| Hy3 | $0.140 / $0.580 | $0.083 / $0.330 | OpenRouter |
| Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct | $0.150 / $1.50 | $0.100 / $1.10 | OpenRouter |
| Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking | $0.150 / $1.50 | $0.150 / $1.20 | tie |
| MiMo-V2.5 | $0.168 / $0.336 | $0.400 / $2.00 | Novita AI |
| Qwen3 235B A22B | $0.200 / $0.800 | $0.071 / $0.100 | OpenRouter |
| Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct | $0.200 / $0.700 | $0.150 / $0.600 | OpenRouter |
| Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking | $0.200 / $1.00 | $0.200 / $2.40 | tie |
Cheaper-on-count is a tally of listed prices, not a quality verdict: throughput, reliability and quantization differ between providers. Disclosure.