Image, video and audio models price per image, per second and per minute, not per token — and the expensive ones are the newest ones. nRouter holds a modality-appropriate reservation before the call and reports an unknowable cost as unpriced, never as zero.
A RAG app makes two kinds of model call and most teams only ever price one of them. Put embeddings and chat behind one gateway key and the cost of answering a question becomes a single number, under a single budget, with one fallback.
nRouter vs Eden AI for teams running OCR, vision and translation alongside their LLM traffic. What a focused gateway serves, what it deliberately does not, and how to split a multi-service invoice before you move anything.
