Requesty
LLM Gateway Comparison

Requesty vs OpenRouter

Same 400+ models. Same OpenAI-compatible API. Requesty adds enterprise governance, multi-region infrastructure, and the best observability in the category.

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Requesty

Recommended

Enterprise LLM gateway

  • 5-layer policy engine with RBAC & SSO
  • Multi-region: US, EU, APAC
  • Custom routing, caching, guardrails
  • SOC 2, GDPR, zero retention
  • Real-time analytics per user/team

OpenRouter

Edge-routed API aggregator

  • No policy engine or RBAC
  • Edge-only on Cloudflare + Supabase + GCP
  • Auto-routing only, no custom policies
  • No SOC 2, no audit logs
  • Basic usage stats only
Observability

The best analytics in the category.

Real-time usage, cost per user/team/key, tool-call analytics, session reconstruction, audit logs. OpenRouter gives you a basic aggregate chart.

app.requesty.ai/analytics
Requesty analytics dashboard showing per-user cost tracking, model distribution, latency metrics, and request volume
Breakdown by
User, team, key, app
Cost tracking
Per request, real-time
Session analytics
Full tool-call replay
Exports
CSV, webhook, API
Drop-in migration

One line of code.

Same OpenAI SDK, same model IDs. Change the base URL, paste your key, ship.

OpenRouter
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
    api_key="sk-or-v1-..."
)

client.chat.completions.create(
    model="anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-5",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "hi"}]
)
Requesty
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://router.requesty.ai/v1",
    api_key="rq_..."
)

client.chat.completions.create(
    model="anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-5",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "hi"}]
)
Governance

Five layers of control. OpenRouter has zero.

Policies cascade from organization down to individual API keys. Admins set guardrails once, everyone inherits them.

L1

Organization

Top-level controls across the entire company: approved models, default providers, global guardrails.

Approved model listGlobal PII policyProvider whitelist
L2

Group

Team or department policies: engineering gets extended context, sales gets stricter budget caps.

Team budgetsGroup-level modelsScoped tool access
L3

Service Account

Programmatic access for CI/CD and automation, scoped per app.

CI/CD tokensPer-service rate limitsAutomated rotation
L4

User

Individual seat controls: personal spending limit, per-user audit trail, feature flags.

Per-user capsIndividual audit logFeature entitlements
L5

API Key

Most granular level: spend cap, allowed models, expiration, revocation.

Per-key spend limitScoped model accessExpiry + revocation
Infrastructure

Your region. Your rules.

Requesty runs its own multi-region infrastructure. OpenRouter sits on Cloudflare Workers, Supabase, and GCP — your data passes through a chain of third parties.

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United States

Virginia (us-east-1) and Oregon (us-west-2)

  • Sub-50ms latency for North America
  • Enterprise SLA
  • SOC 2 aligned
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European Union

Frankfurt (eu-central-1), EU-only endpoint

  • GDPR compliance
  • No data leaves EU
  • Separate router.eu.requesty.ai endpoint
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Asia Pacific

Singapore (ap-southeast-1)

  • Low latency for APAC users
  • Regional model access
  • Local data residency

OpenRouter's edge dependency

OpenRouter is built on Cloudflare Workers (compute), Supabase (auth + DB), and GCP (serverless). You have no control over where requests are processed or where metadata is stored. GDPR-regulated industries can't use it.

Feature by feature.

The full comparison matrix across governance, infrastructure, routing, observability, and security.

Feature
Requesty
OpenRouter
Governance
Multi-layer policy engine (Org → Group → Service Account → User → Key)
Role-based access control (RBAC)
Organization & team management
Group-based budgets and rules
Content guardrails & PII detection
SSO (Okta, Azure AD, Google Workspace)
Infrastructure
Multi-region deployment (US, EU, APAC)
EU data residency (Frankfurt, GDPR)
Owns the entire stack
Edge-only on Cloudflare Workers
Dependency on Supabase + GCP
Routing & Reliability
Custom routing policies (failover, load balance, latency)
Weighted routing by performance or cost
Automatic fallback across providers
Prompt caching
Basic auto-routing
Observability
Real-time usage analytics per user/team/key
Cost tracking with spending alerts
Session reconstruction & tool-call analytics
Audit logs
Data exports (CSV, webhook)
Security & Compliance
SOC 2 Type II
GDPR compliance (DPA on request)
Zero prompt retention by default
Key rotation & service accounts
Approved models whitelist

Why teams switch.

Enterprise governance

The 5-layer policy engine scales from startup to Fortune 500. OpenRouter has no organization management, RBAC, or policy controls.

Controlled infrastructure

Frankfurt for GDPR, Virginia for US, Singapore for APAC. OpenRouter's edge-only stack routes your data through third parties you don't control.

Custom routing

Failover chains, weighted load balancing, latency-based routing, prompt caching. OpenRouter offers basic auto-routing, nothing custom.

Security & compliance

SOC 2 Type II, GDPR DPA, zero retention, audit logs, SSO, key rotation. OpenRouter lacks the compliance posture regulated industries need.

Migrate in under 5 minutes.

Same SDK, same model IDs. You change the base URL and your API key.

1

Change base URL

Replace openrouter.ai/api/v1 with router.requesty.ai/v1

2

Swap API key

Generate a Requesty key at app.requesty.ai/api-keys

3

Optionally add policies

Set up org, groups, and routing policies when ready

Common questions.

Requesty is a transparent 5% markup on base model costs with no subscription or seat fees. OpenRouter does the same, but Requesty bundles enterprise features (SSO, RBAC, audit logs, guardrails, EU residency) at the same price tier.

Yes. Requesty is OpenAI-compatible — you change the base URL from openrouter.ai/api to router.requesty.ai/v1 and your Requesty API key. Model IDs follow the same provider/model format.

Yes, 400+ models including Claude (Sonnet, Opus, Haiku), GPT, Gemini, Mistral, DeepSeek, Llama, Kimi, and more. Full list at /models.

OpenRouter history stays in OpenRouter. Once you switch to Requesty, new traffic lands in Requesty analytics with richer per-user and per-team breakdowns. Export your OpenRouter data before switching if you need it for compliance.

Both. Pay-as-you-go has no seat minimum. You get the same routing, caching, and observability as enterprise, minus SSO and RBAC which most solo devs don't need.

Both sit in front of the same model APIs, so end-to-end latency is dominated by the model. Requesty adds typically under 10ms of gateway overhead. Multi-region deployment means EU users hit a Frankfurt endpoint instead of routing through Cloudflare's global edge.

Same models. Better gateway.

Change your base URL to Requesty and unlock governance, regions, and observability that OpenRouter doesn't offer.

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