OpenRouter adds Business tier: 8% fee, 1,000-workspace limit, signed DPA
What happened
Between the Sep 7, 2026 and Sep 14, 2026 captures of OpenRouter's pricing page, Pulse recorded one change: New 'Business' tier introduced between Pay-as-you-go and Enterprise at an 8% platform fee, raising the workspace limit to 1,000 (vs 5 on Free and Pay-as-you-go) and adding a DPA row offering a signed copy on request. Pulse files it as a packaging change (new plan) with an upward direction.
It lands 28 days after OpenRouter's previous change, "OpenRouter expands catalog to 500+ models, 80+ providers across pricing tiers" (Aug 17, 2026). Before that Pulse recorded "OpenRouter swaps free BYOK request quotas for dollar-based fee thresholds" (Jul 6, 2026), "OpenRouter expands provider network to 70+ on all paid plans" (Jun 22, 2026) and "OpenRouter rebrands enterprise discounts as fee-only savings" (Jun 17, 2026). OpenRouter has been tracked since 2026-05-16.
In the same window Together AI, OpenAI, Google, Metabase and Mistral AI also changed their AI & Machine Learning pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
- Business, Enterprise · PlanAdded
BeforeNot listed
Afterbetween Pay-as-you-go and Enterprise
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business, Enterprise | Plan | Not listed | between Pay-as-you-go and Enterprise | Added |
Values as written on OpenRouter's public pricing page in the two captures Pulse compared; where the page states no number, the cells give the wording before and after.
Evidence
The two captures Pulse comparedFull-page captures of OpenRouter's pricing page (openrouter.ai) from Sep 7, 2026 and Sep 14, 2026; the change is marked near the top of the page, where between Pay-as-you-go and Enterprise now appears.
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OpenRouter, the last 90 days
Full history- Oct 5, 2026packagingOpenRouter moves Enterprise BYOK limit to custom, adds advanced spend alerts
- Sep 28, 2026improvedOpenRouter adds Workload Identity Federation to Business, Enterprise plans
- Sep 21, 2026packagingOpenRouter renames Pay-as-you-go plan to Standard, fee stays 5.5%
- Sep 14, 2026packagingOpenRouter adds Business tier: 8% fee, 1,000-workspace limit, signed DPA · this change
- Aug 17, 2026improvedOpenRouter expands catalog to 500+ models, 80+ providers across pricing tiers
- Jul 6, 2026packagingOpenRouter swaps free BYOK request quotas for dollar-based fee thresholds
- Jun 22, 2026improvedOpenRouter expands provider network to 70+ on all paid plans
- Jun 17, 2026packagingOpenRouter rebrands enterprise discounts as fee-only savings
Across AI & Machine Learning in the same window
All AI & Machine Learning changes- Together AISep 14Together AI: Qwen3.7-Max price hike + new DeepSeek V4.1 Flash model
- OpenAISep 11OpenAI quietly drops 20x usage option from Pro, rewrites plan taglines
- GoogleSep 7Google Workspace: promo discount cut from 50% to 30%/20% off
- MetabaseAug 24Metabase quietly reveals Enterprise-only paid air-gapped deployment option
- Mistral AIAug 17Mistral AI folds Education into Pro, adds bundled API credits to entry plans
Questions about this change
Did OpenRouter raise prices in September 2026?
No list-price increase was recorded between Sep 7, 2026 and Sep 14, 2026. The change Pulse detected was a packaging change: new plan.
What changed on OpenRouter's pricing page between Sep 7, 2026 and Sep 14, 2026?
Business, Enterprise plan: Not listed → between Pay-as-you-go and Enterprise, added. Pulse compared the captures it took on Sep 7, 2026 and Sep 14, 2026; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does OpenRouter change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 4 other pricing-page changes for OpenRouter in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "OpenRouter expands catalog to 500+ models, 80+ providers across pricing tiers" on Aug 17, 2026; OpenRouter has been tracked since 2026-05-16.