Every Modality Through One API

You’re building an app that needs to answer questions in chat, generate product images, search a knowledge base, and turn voice memos into text. The default path is 4 provider SDKs, 4 billing relationships, and 4 auth schemes to wire up before you write a line of feature code. One developer on r/Bard went looking for a unified API for LLMs, image, and video generation models. Another on r/ShowYourApp built the thing themselves and reported that an all-in-one AI API was way harder than expected once text, image, video, TTS, STT, and embeddings all had to coexist. On OpenRouter, every one of those modalities runs through a single OpenAI-compatible base URL: https://openrouter.ai/api/v1. You set it once. After that, you change the model string and the content type. The catalog spans 400+ models across 70+ providers, and the same routing controls that protect a chat call protect an embeddings call. Set one base URL (https://openrouter.ai/api/v1) and call image, video, audio, embeddings, and transcription through it. Switch modality by changing the…