Openrouter Analytics

OpenRouter Analytics

Query your OpenRouter usage data programmatically. Answer questions like "What was my spend this month?", "Which models cost the most?", and "How can I reduce my bill?" using the Analytics API.

Prerequisites

• An OpenRouter management key (provisioning key). Regular API keys will get a 403.
• Get a management key at https://openrouter.ai/settings/management-keys (separate from the regular API keys page)
• Pass it via --api-key <key> or set the OPENROUTER_API_KEY environment variable

First-Time Setup

cd <skill-path>/scripts && npm install

Decision Tree

Workflow

The recommended workflow for answering a user's analytics question:

1. Discover — Call discover-schema.ts to see available metrics and dimensions
2. Map — Translate the user's question into metrics, dimensions, filters, and time range
3. Query — Execute via query-analytics.ts
4. Interpret — Analyze the returned data and explain the results

For common questions, suggest-queries.ts provides ready-made query templates.

Discover Available Data

cd <skill-path>/scripts && npx tsx discover-schema.ts

Returns the full schema: metrics, dimensions, filter operators, and granularities.

Filter to a specific section:

npx tsx discover-schema.ts --section metrics
npx tsx discover-schema.ts --section dimensions
npx tsx discover-schema.ts --section operators
npx tsx discover-schema.ts --section granularities

See the openrouter-analytics-schema skill for detailed guidance on interpreting the schema response and mapping user questions to the right metrics and dimensions.

Query Analytics Data

cd <skill-path>/scripts && npx tsx query-analytics.ts --metrics request_count,total_usage

See the openrouter-analytics-query skill for the full parameter reference and query construction guide.

Quick Examples

Spend over the last 7 days, broken down by day:

npx tsx query-analytics.ts --metrics total_usage --granularity day

Top 10 models by cost:

npx tsx query-analytics.ts --metrics total_usage,request_count --dimensions model --order-by total_usage --limit 10

Usage by API key:

npx tsx query-analytics.ts --metrics request_count,tokens_total --dimensions api_key_id --order-by request_count --limit 10

Latency by provider (limited to 31-day range):

npx tsx query-analytics.ts --metrics avg_latency,p90_latency --dimensions provider --order-by p90_latency

Usage cost breakdown (credits, BYOK, upstream, cache, data logging, web search):

npx tsx query-analytics.ts --metrics credits_usage,byok_usage,byok_fees,usage_upstream,usage_cache,usage_data,usage_web --granularity day

Common Query Templates

cd <skill-path>/scripts && npx tsx suggest-queries.ts

Returns a list of pre-built query templates for common questions, each with:

• The natural-language question it answers
• The query parameters (metrics, dimensions, filters, time range)
• The CLI flags to pass to query-analytics.ts
• Interpretation guidance (where applicable)

Interpreting Results

The query endpoint returns an array of data rows. Each row is a flat object with keys matching the requested metrics and dimensions.

When interpreting results for the user:

• Spend metrics (total_usage, credits_usage, openrouter_usage, byok_usage, byok_fees, usage_upstream, usage_cache, usage_web, usage_upstream_web, usage_file, usage_upstream_file, usage_web_fetch, usage_upstream_web_fetch) are in USD. total_usage includes BYOK inference cost. usage_data is typically negative (a data logging discount)
• Token counts (tokens_total, tokens_prompt, tokens_completion) are in native model tokens
• Latency (avg_latency, p50_latency, etc.) is in milliseconds
• Rates (cache_hit_rate) are 0–1 ratios
• Throughput (avg_throughput) is tokens per second
• When granularity is set, rows include a date__<granularity> field for the time bucket (e.g., date__day, date__hour, date__month)
• Label resolution: dimensions api_key_id, app, user, and workspace have their raw IDs replaced with human-readable names (key name, app title, user name, workspace name) directly in the data rows; generation_id and session_id return raw values
• Truncation: when consuming output programmatically, check metadata.truncated. If true, the result was capped at --limit and is a partial dataset — raise --limit or paginate before reporting totals or rankings

Cost Optimization Guidance

When the user asks "How can I spend less?" or similar:

1. Query top models by spend: --metrics total_usage,tokens_total,cache_hit_rate,request_count --dimensions model --order-by total_usage --limit 10
2. Query cost breakdown: --metrics credits_usage,byok_usage,byok_fees,usage_upstream,usage_cache,usage_data,usage_web,usage_file --granularity day to see where spend goes
3. Look for:
   • Models with high spend but low cache_hit_rate — prompt caching can help
   • Expensive models that could be replaced by cheaper alternatives for specific tasks
   • High token counts with low request counts — may indicate oversized prompts
   • Models where reasoning_tokens are a large fraction of total — consider disabling extended thinking if not needed
   • High usage_web or usage_file relative to usage_upstream — web search and file processing add-on costs may be significant

Drilling Down to Individual Generations

To inspect specific generations or sessions from your analytics results, add generation_id or session_id as a dimension. Both are generations-only dimensions (31-day limit). generation_id returns the unique ID for each generation in the result set. session_id groups and filters sessionless requests as the literal none: the ClickHouse column defaults to an empty string, and the query builder coalesces it to none. Use neq 'none' to exclude sessionless requests; filtering on '' matches nothing.

npx tsx query-analytics.ts --metrics total_usage,tokens_total --dimensions generation_id --order-by total_usage --limit 10

Once you have a generation ID (e.g., gen-aBcDeFgHiJkLmNoPqRsT), use the openrouter-generations skill to get detailed information:

• get-generation — Fetch full request metadata: cost breakdown, token counts, latency, provider routing chain, finish reason, and more
• get-generation-content — Fetch the stored prompt and completion text (unless Zero Data Retention was enabled)

cd <openrouter-generations-skill-path>/scripts
npx tsx get-generation.ts gen-aBcDeFgHiJkLmNoPqRsT
npx tsx get-generation-content.ts gen-aBcDeFgHiJkLmNoPqRsT

This workflow is useful for identifying your most expensive or slowest requests via analytics, then inspecting the actual prompt/completion to understand why.

API Reference

Both endpoints require a management key via Authorization: Bearer sk-or-v1-....

Full documentation: https://openrouter.ai/docs/api/api-reference/analytics