# Openrouter API implementation **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Requests\ **Created:** [December 30, 2024, 4:35am UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/openrouter-api-implementation/3135 "2024-12-30T04:35:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pitouking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f19dbf/32.png) [@pitouking](https://community.pickaxe.co/u/pitouking)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2024, 4:35am UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/openrouter-api-implementation/3135/1 "2024-12-30T04:35:44Z")
It would be great to have open router and straico API available as it would allow us more llms without subscriptions ---
**Author:** ![cditfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@cditfort](https://community.pickaxe.co/u/cditfort)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2024, 6:43am UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/openrouter-api-implementation/3135/2 "2024-12-30T06:43:04Z")
I second that. Open Router would mean we could just provide one API key and use any model. ---
**Author:** ![ihmunro](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/community.pickaxe.co/ihmunro/32/592_2.png) [@ihmunro](https://community.pickaxe.co/u/ihmunro)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2024, 8:38pm UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/openrouter-api-implementation/3135/3 "2024-12-31T20:38:33Z")
You could add a [Make.com](http://Make.com) integration with the Openrouter Module. ---
**Author:** ![cditfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@cditfort](https://community.pickaxe.co/u/cditfort)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2024, 10:13pm UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/openrouter-api-implementation/3135/4 "2024-12-31T22:13:23Z")
Yeah you could but then the action wouldn’t be as effective as directly integrating with the AI model. It would be a much better feature built in. ---
**Author:** ![ihmunro](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/community.pickaxe.co/ihmunro/32/592_2.png) [@ihmunro](https://community.pickaxe.co/u/ihmunro)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2024, 10:49pm UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/openrouter-api-implementation/3135/5 "2024-12-31T22:49:18Z")
Thanks - why would it not be as effective ? ---
**Author:** ![cditfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@cditfort](https://community.pickaxe.co/u/cditfort)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 5:38am UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/openrouter-api-implementation/3135/6 "2025-01-01T05:38:16Z")
I guess it depends on your use case, but what I mean by it not being as effective is: The AI interprets your initial instructions [we are connecting to a model Claude, Mistral, GPT] that’s already one request which sends and receives data, the model then see our instructions to launch an action, then sends a request to make which triggers an open router response, then sends it back to the pickaxe for response. As opposed to, pickaxe connecting directly to open router, returning the response. The first option is taking twice as long as the second and much more inefficient. I feel like it would take longer that way as opposed it being built in and directly connecting to your open router model. I haven’t done any testing myself but I know how all this works on the back end so I assume it’s definitely not as efficient as having it as a default. ---
**Author:** ![james.yeoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b2d939/32.png) [@james.yeoh](https://community.pickaxe.co/u/james.yeoh)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2025, 3:27am UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/openrouter-api-implementation/3135/7 "2025-04-04T03:27:52Z")
Voting on this. This will also make it easy for Pickaxe team to not need to integrate with so many LLMs. ---
**Author:** ![nathaniel](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/community.pickaxe.co/nathaniel/32/11_2.png) [@nathaniel](https://community.pickaxe.co/u/nathaniel)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2025, 9:44pm UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/openrouter-api-implementation/3135/8 "2025-11-12T21:44:45Z")
As we’ve launched our new pricing/model system that allows all payments to flow through us, I’m closing this! ---
**Author:** ![nathaniel](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/community.pickaxe.co/nathaniel/32/11_2.png) [@nathaniel](https://community.pickaxe.co/u/nathaniel)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2025, 9:44pm UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/openrouter-api-implementation/3135/9 "2025-11-12T21:44:51Z")