NVIDIA: Switchyard
nvidia/switchyard
Switchyard is an open-source model routing system that switches between multiple models to optimize the cost of requests. By default it will use OpenRouter market data to select the most...
Price
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Providers
Each row is one seller. Prices are the published rate from that source. A dash means that source did not publish the amount. Sorted by a 3:1 blend of input and output.
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Monthly bill
Token models use the token counts. Image, video, and audio models use units times the flat rate.
No published price at list price for this workload
Every rate
| Unit | Input | Output | Flat | Confidence |
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| token | Not published— | Not published— | Not published— | official |
Price history
input or flat output
Daily snapshots
| UTC date | Unit | Input | Output | Flat |
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| 2026-10-03 | token | $-1,000,000 | $-1,000,000 | Not published— |
| 2026-10-04 | token | $-1,000,000 | $-1,000,000 | Not published— |
| 2026-10-05 | token | $-1,000,000 | $-1,000,000 | Not published— |
| 2026-10-06 | token | $-1,000,000 | $-1,000,000 | Not published— |
| 2026-10-07 | token | $-1,000,000 | $-1,000,000 | Not published— |
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Alternatives
Call this model
OpenRouter id nvidia/switchyard. InferenceList does not send the request.
curl
curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"nvidia/switchyard","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'
JavaScript
await fetch("https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions", {
method: "POST",
headers: {
Authorization: "Bearer " + process.env.OPENROUTER_API_KEY,
"Content-Type": "application/json",
},
body: JSON.stringify({
model: "nvidia/switchyard",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
}),
});
Python
import os, json, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions",
data=json.dumps({"model": "nvidia/switchyard", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]}).encode(),
headers={"Authorization": "Bearer " + os.environ["OPENROUTER_API_KEY"], "Content-Type": "application/json"},
)
print(urllib.request.urlopen(req).read().decode())