6 best LLM routers for OpenClaw in 2026

6 best LLM routers for OpenClaw in 2026 TL;DR: TeamoRouter is the fastest setup and takes USD payments. ClawRouter is the most powerful but crypto-only. OpenRouter has 623+ models and charges 5.5% on everything. LiteLLM and Bifrost are for teams that want to self-host and configure everything themselves. Pick based on how much infrastructure you want to run and whether you have a crypto wallet. The LLM routing market has gotten crowded. After OpenClaw hit 196K+ GitHub stars and Anthropic tightened Max plan rate limits, a lot of developers started looking for ways to cut API costs without changing their workflow. I went through all six of the options worth evaluating. Here's what I found — including a couple things their docs don't mention. What a router actually does It sits between OpenClaw and your providers. Instead of everything going to Claude Opus 4.6 at $15/M tokens, simple requests (file reads, quick edits, short answers) go to cheaper models like Gemini Flash or DeepSeek, and