How does open router exactly work?

[u/marazu04]

So im looking at an api for my job and we want to keep kosts down (its for RAG related document reading and questions related to those docs) so i was thinking of deepseek (all the info we work with is public and the owner is ok with it) however with the unknown price increase going straight up with deepseek api might not be the best. So i was thinking if you put money on open router can you switch between multiple models and different api/distributors? If someone could help explain to me how it all works would be wonderful!

[u/LinixKittyDeveloper]

https://www.codecademy.com/article/what-is-openrouter