# VideoRouter – OpenRouter for video and image generation APIs

> Source: <https://videorouter.sh>
> Published: 2026-09-16 22:34:29+00:00

### We negotiate lower prices

We negotiate volume pricing directly with GPU-hosting providers, so you get rates much cheaper than going direct.

Access Sora, Kling, Veo, Minimax, and 15+ video models through a single interface.

One flat 2% platform fee — vs. 5% on OpenRouter.

The OpenRouter alternative for video & image models

The same video & image model, priced by every host we route to — see how much cheaper our best price is than Fal.ai's own rate for each one.

| Model | Cheapest | Fal price | Discount (compared to Fal.ai price) | 
|---|---|---|---|
| Loading live rates… |  |  |  | 

The architecture

One endpoint in. Every model, max uptime. We shop Fal, WaveSpeedAI, Atlas Cloud, Replicate, Novita, and more for the best price on every model, every request — and health-check every host continuously so your app fails over automatically and stays online.

Your application

VideoRouter

Inference Optimization Layer

Inside the layer: cost optimization

The same open-weight model — Wan, HunyuanVideo, MiniMax H3 — is hosted by multiple providers at different prices. We route every generation to whichever host is cheapest and healthy right now.

Video/image hosts change per-generation and per-second rates constantly. We resync prices continuously across every provider, so you never overpay against a stale number.

Latency-tolerant video and image jobs run through provider batch queues at a discount, and we pass those savings straight through to you.

For select open-weight checkpoints, we run the model ourselves — cutting out the reseller markup entirely.

Just a flat 2% platform fee — vs. 5% on OpenRouter — on every render, every model.

The full layer

Everything below runs automatically, on every request, under a single flat 2% fee.

Price, latency, and quality for every provider — in one place, live — so you never have to guess who's cheapest or fastest for the model you want.

Every render is priced against the cheapest host serving that model at your requested resolution and duration — automatically, not by hand.

Set budgets and limits per key, project, or team, and get alerted before spend runs away — not after the invoice.

One API for every video & image model — Fal, WaveSpeedAI, Atlas Cloud, Replicate, Novita, and closed hosts like Sora, Veo, and Kling. Swap models with a single string change.

If a host degrades or rate-limits mid-render, we fail over transparently — your app never sees the outage.

Every provider hosting a given model, side by side — live price, measured latency, and benchmark quality — so you can see who's actually cheapest and fastest, not guess.

We track latency and throughput per host and route toward whoever is fastest for your render right now.

Quickstart

Point your base URL at VideoRouter and call any open-source or closed video/image model directly — same request format, one API key, a flat 2% fee.

``` python
# pip install openai
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://videorouter.sh/api/v1",
    api_key="llmr_sk_...",
)

# Any video model, from any host, one API key
video = client.videos.create(
    model="wan-2.2",
    prompt="A drone shot over a neon-lit city at night",
    seconds=5,
)

print(video.id)
# → routed to whichever host has Wan 2.2 cheapest right now
```

From the blog

Real cross-provider price data on the models you're actually calling — Seedance, Wan, Veo, and more.

Create a developer account, grab an API key, and point your OpenAI SDK at us — every video & image host, price, latency, and failover, optimized automatically.

OpenAI-compatible · one API key · 2% fee.