CheapRouter
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One API for
AI agents and
top-tier LLMs

Connect agent clients and custom apps to Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and other providers through one OpenRouter-style API. Use OpenAI-compatible and Anthropic-compatible endpoints with per-token billing and no subscriptions.

Works withCodexClaude CodeOpenClawHermes
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Live route trace
https://api.cheaprouter.dev/v1

Agent client route

Drop-in API for agent CLIs and custom worker processes.

$clientClaude Codebase_urlhttps://api.cheaprouter.dev/v1modelanthropic/claude-opus-4.8endpoint/v1/messagesstreamtrue
route
Anthropic
status
200
usage
prompt 13…
MiniMax M2.7/Kimi K2.5/Qwen 3.6 Plus/GLM 5.1/Claude Haiku 4.5/Claude Opus 4.6/Claude Opus 4.8/Claude Sonnet 4.6/GPT 5.3 Codex/GPT 5.5/Gemini 3.1 Pro/Nano Banana Pro/Veo 3.1/DeepSeek V4/MiniMax M2.7/Kimi K2.5/Qwen 3.6 Plus/GLM 5.1/Claude Haiku 4.5/Claude Opus 4.6/Claude Opus 4.8/Claude Sonnet 4.6/GPT 5.3 Codex/GPT 5.5/Gemini 3.1 Pro/Nano Banana Pro/Veo 3.1/DeepSeek V4/
34+
models in the catalog
11+
providers through one API
0
subscriptions or fixed plans
10%
from invited referrals
01

API for everything

Codex, Claude Code, OpenClaw, Hermes, and custom services connect to one base URL without separate provider keys.

Create a key
02
/chat/responses/messages/models

OpenAI and Anthropic compatible

Use /chat/completions, /responses, and /messages with OpenRouter-style provider/model ids.

Open docs
03

Routing with useful trace

The dashboard shows spend, statuses, models, and request IDs for clear analytics, while user request content is not stored.

View flow
04

Pay only for usage

Per-token billing, clear input/output prices, and balance top-ups by bank card, SBP, or crypto, no subscriptions.

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Catalog

Featured models and pricing

ModelProviderPrice
Claude Opus 4.8
1M context
Anthropic
Input $0.5 / Output $2.5
Claude Sonnet 4.6
1M context
Anthropic
Input $0.3 / Output $1.5
GPT 5.5
1M context
OpenAI
Input $0.5 / Output $3.0
GPT Image 2
272K context
OpenAI
Input $0.8 / Output $3.0
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
1M context
Google
Input $0.2 / Output $1.2
Nano Banana Pro
Google
Input $0.2 / Output $1.2
Veo 3.1
Google
$0.04 per second

Text model prices are shown in USD per 1 million input and output tokens. Image model prices are shown per generated image. Video model prices are shown per second of video.

Quick start

One request to the first response

Create an account, issue an API key, and call the public CheapRouter API endpoint.

  1. 1Create an account
  2. 2Top up balance
  3. 3Call /v1/chat/completions
terminal
$ API=https://api.cheaprouter.dev/v1
$ curl $API/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <KEY>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"anthropic/claude-opus-4.8",
       "messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hi!"}]}'
{ "choices": [{ "message": { "content": "Route accepted." } }] }

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Get an API key in seconds, open the documentation after sign-in, and start routing requests to top models.

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