OpenRouter vs Tinfoil
A side-by-side comparison of OpenRouter and Tinfoil, two Inference tools, drawn from Ignaite's continuously-verified listings.
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At a glance
The honest brief
OpenRouter
Swap among 300+ models behind one OpenAI-compatible key with auto-fallback and a single consolidated bill.
- Swap models by changing one parameter
- Automatic provider fallback
- One consolidated bill
- Dozens of free models
- Pass-through token pricing
- Adds a routing hop vs direct provider
- Markup on some routes
- Not a self-hostable gateway
Tinfoil
Hardware-enforced privacy: inference runs in attestable GPU enclaves so neither Tinfoil nor the cloud can see your data — verifiable, not just a promise.
- Hardware-enforced, verifiable privacy
- Open-source, attestable stack
- OpenAI-compatible API
- Free private chat to try
- Runs popular open-weight models
- Open-weight models only, no GPT-4/Claude
- Smaller model selection than big clouds
- Enclave approach adds some overhead