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title: "1 Site Where openrouter ai Is a Top Search Keyword"
url: https://mxverify.uk/keywords/openrouter-ai
description: "1 site on mxverify lists “openrouter ai” among the searches that send it the most visitors, by traffic estimates: openrouter.ai."
site: mxverify
generated: 2026-11-01T14:39:56.222Z
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# Sites where “openrouter ai” is a top search keyword

One site on record lists “openrouter ai” among the searches that send it the most visitors, by traffic estimates. It is searched about **90.5K** times a month on Google, worldwide (Google Ads, Sept 2026), at about $2.74 a click in search ads: a month of its searches would cost about **$248K** as search ads. Each site checked on the [backlink value checker](https://mxverify.uk/backlink-value) adds its top five search keywords, so this list grows as sites are checked.

## Keyword intelligence

- **90.5K** Google monthly search volume +50% since Oct 2025
- **+7%** Last 3 months vs 3 before steady
- **67/100** Demand score moderate
- **37/100** Keyword difficulty (US) possible
- **Commercial** Search intent comparing options
- **$2.74** Google Ads cost per click top-of-page bids $0.48–$4.71
- **41.8K** Third-party estimated keyword demand Sept 2026
- **1** Sites getting visits from it Sept 2026

### What the data says

- Demand is up on the year, now levelling off: Google searches for “openrouter ai” rose 50% (60.5K to 90.5K) from Oct 2025 to Sept 2026.
- The listed sites' estimated visits from “openrouter ai” (54K a month) exceed its 41.8K searches: the estimates count visits from close searches too, so the listed sites take most of its traffic, not more than all of it.
- At $2.74 a click (Google Ads), the listed sites' 54K visits a month from “openrouter ai” would cost about $147.9K as search ads. That is what the traffic would cost to buy, not what it earns.

### 1Demand

**Search demand, month by month**

Google monthly search volume (Google Ads, worldwide) Third-party estimated keyword demand

Search demand, month by month. Google monthly search volume (Google Ads, worldwide): Oct 2025 60.5K, Nov 2025 60.5K, Dec 2025 60.5K, Jan 2026 60.5K, Feb 2026 74K, Mar 2026 74K, Apr 2026 90.5K, May 2026 90.5K, Jun 2026 90.5K, Jul 2026 90.5K, Aug 2026 110K, Sept 2026 90.5K; Third-party estimated keyword demand: Sept 2026 41.8K

Every month's figures

|  | Oct 2025 | Nov 2025 | Dec 2025 | Jan 2026 | Feb 2026 | Mar 2026 | Apr 2026 | May 2026 | Jun 2026 | Jul 2026 | Aug 2026 | Sept 2026 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Google monthly search volume (Google Ads, worldwide) | 60.5K | 60.5K | 60.5K | 60.5K | 74K | 74K | 90.5K | 90.5K | 90.5K | 90.5K | 110K | 90.5K |
| Third-party estimated keyword demand | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 41.8K |

Google monthly search volume: Google Ads, worldwide, read 1 Nov 2026. Third-party estimated keyword demand is a separate source, on the same axis: the two can differ.

### 2Who gets the traffic

**Share of the visits, Sept 2026**

Each site's latest estimate of its visits from this keyword; “As ads”: those visits at its cost per click, what they would cost to buy; DR: Ahrefs Domain Rating; linking sites: sites linking to it (third-party link index).

**Where these sites' visitors are**

- United States 16%
- India 11%
- China 8%
- Germany 5%
- Indonesia 4%
- Other countries 55%

The listed sites' own visitors by country (all their traffic), weighted by each site's visits from this keyword: their audience, not where the keyword is searched.

**Phones and computers**

- Phones 29%
- Computers and tablets 71%

Page loads of the listed sites by Chrome users (Chrome UX Report), weighted by each site's visits from this keyword: a site's device mix, not the keyword's. No source gives a keyword's device split.

### 3Ranking competition

- **37/100** Keyword difficulty (US) possible
- **40/100** Ranking ease contested
- **DR 80** First page, median Ahrefs DR
- **148** Linking sites per top-ten page average, US

On Google's page: Perspectives Related searches Images AI Overview

**Google's first page, United States**

| # | Site | Page title | DR |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | truefoundry.com | OpenRouter Vs AI Gateway: Which One Is Best For You? | 74 |
| 2 | reddit.com | ELI5: how does Openrouter work? : r/ChatGPTCoding | 95 |
| 3 | edenai.co | 10 Best OpenRouter Alternatives in 2026 (Free & Paid) | 70 |
| 4 | reddit.com | Is there really a lot of value on using open router? | 95 |
| 5 | realpython.com | Accessing Multiple AI Models With the OpenRouter API | 81 |
| 6 | reddit.com | Everything You Need To Know About OpenRouter ... | 95 |
| 7 | menlovc.com | OpenRouter Now Processes More Than a Quadrillion Tokens ... | 79 |
| 8 | chatboxai.app | OpenRouter Setup Guide | 75 |

Google's results for “openrouter ai” in the United States, in English, read 1 Nov 2026. DR: Ahrefs Domain Rating; “—”: Ahrefs gives no rating.

- Keyword difficulty is 37 of 100 for US results: possible on the vendor's scale.
- reddit.com holds 3 of Google's top 8 results for “openrouter ai”: Google treats it as a search for that site.
- None of the 1 sites listed here is in Google's US top 8 for “openrouter ai”.
- The first page's median Ahrefs DR is 80; the lowest-rated result, edenai.co at #3, has DR 70.
- The top ten pages have about 148 linking sites each on average (US results, third-party link index).
- Google shows an AI Overview for “openrouter ai”, citing 4 sites, openrouter.ai among them: it sits above the results and takes clicks from them.

### 4Intent and related searches

**Commercial: comparing options** · also navigational, transactional  
The searcher's goal, as a third-party keyword database classifies it (US).

#### Google's related searches

- OpenRouter AI pricing
- Is OpenRouter AI free
- OpenRouter AI free models
- OpenRouter AI API key
- OpenRouter AI free API key
- OpenRouter AI chat
- Openrouter ai login
- OpenRouter AI download

#### Questions people ask

- What is OpenRouter's revenue from AI?
- Do you have to pay for OpenRouter AI?
- Why is Stripe buying OpenRouter?
- Who is behind OpenRouter?

#### Keywords the same sites get visits from

- [janitor ai](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/janitor-ai) 1 of these sites · 4 sites in all
- [openrouter](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/openrouter) 1 of these sites · 2 sites in all
- [open router](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/open-router) 1 of these sites · 1 site in all
- [ox alpha](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/ox-alpha) 1 of these sites · 1 site in all

Keywords the listed sites also get visits from, the most shared first: linked by the same sites' traffic, not by meaning.

### 5Opportunity

**67** /100 · Demand score, moderate

How much searching there is and what advertisers pay for it.

|  |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Searches | 79 | 90.5K a month · weight 40% |
| Year | 65 | +50% since Oct 2025 · weight 20% |
| Momentum | 57 | last 3 months +7% on the 3 before · weight 20% |
| Commercial | 55 | $2.74 a click (Google Ads) · weight 20% |

**40** /100 · Ranking ease, contested

How open Google's first page is: 100 minus its difficulty and strength.

|  |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Keyword difficulty | 63 | 37 of 100 (US) · weight 50% |
| First-page strength | 20 | median Ahrefs DR 80 · weight 50% |
| One site's results | 63 | reddit.com holds 3 of 8; ease capped at 40 · weight 0% |

### What to do with it

- Treat it as a brand search: Google answers “openrouter ai” with the brand's own pages, so a third-party page competes for what is left; Google's related searches show the angles people take: “OpenRouter AI pricing”, “Is OpenRouter AI free”, “OpenRouter AI free models”.
- Google answers part of it in an AI Overview: the pages it cites get a link above the results.

A business score needs your own figures (conversion, deal value) and is not made here. Scores are fixed formulas over the figures shown; they are not Google's.

### 6Sources

- **Google monthly search volume**, Google Ads cost per click, bids and paid competition: Google Ads, worldwide, read 1 Nov 2026.
- **Third-party estimated keyword demand**, cost per click and each site's visits (est.): third-party traffic estimates, Sept 2026.
- **Keyword difficulty, intent, SERP features, top-ten links**: a third-party keyword database, United States, read 1 Nov 2026.
- **Google's first page, AI Overview, related searches**: Google search, United States, read 1 Nov 2026.
- **DR**: Ahrefs Domain Rating. **Linking sites**: a third-party link index.
- **Phones and computers**: Chrome UX Report.

Tiles, findings, scores and actions are worked out from the figures on this page by fixed rules.

| Site | Report | Visits (est.) | Month |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [openrouter.ai](https://mxverify.uk/publications/openrouter.ai) | Valued | 54K | Sept 2026 |

Listed A–Z. A top search keyword is one of the searches that bring a site the most visitors, by estimate. It is not a position in Google, and the order here is not a ranking. Visits (est.): the traffic estimate's own figure for the keyword on that site, which behaves like visits a month, not an amount of money (2026-09-29: it had been shown in dollars). Ad value is what advertisers pay for the keyword — its searches × cost per click — not how hard it is to rank for. This page is kept out of search results until 15 sites share the keyword.

Searches, cost per click and ad value above: Google Ads, worldwide. Sites and their visits: third-party traffic estimates, Sept 2026. The traffic estimates' own searches figure for the keyword is in the section below; the two sources often differ several times over.

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Source: mxverify, "1 Site Where openrouter ai Is a Top Search Keyword", https://mxverify.uk/keywords/openrouter-ai (retrieved 2026-11-01). How every figure is worked out: https://mxverify.uk/methodology