{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "meta-model-api", "name": "Meta Model API", "vendor": "Meta", "vendorUrl": "https://dev.meta.ai", "kind": "model", "category": "inference", "summary": "Meta Model API is Meta's pay-as-you-go API for its hosted Muse models, including Muse Wonder and Muse Spark, through OpenAI-style Responses and Chat Completions endpoints and an Anthropic-style Messages endpoint, plus image, speech and segmentation routes.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/meta-model-api", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/meta-model-api.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/meta-model-api.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/meta-model-api.json", "license": "Closed service under the Meta Model API Terms of Service (last updated 9 October 2026), with Meta Platforms, Inc., or Meta Platforms Ireland Limited in the European Region, as the contracting party.", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.meta.ai/v1", "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "A bearer API key created on the API keys tab of the Model API dashboard after a browser sign-up with email, mobile number, Facebook, Google or GitHub. Keys belong to a team, are shown once and are revoked by deletion. No key scopes were found, and every key on a team shares the team's rate limits.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Muse Wonder is $4.00 per million input tokens, $0.20 cached and $20.00 per million output tokens, Standard mode only (checked 2026-10-12). Muse Spark is $1.25, $0.15 and $4.25, or $0.10, $0.002 and $0.20 in Contributor mode, where Meta may train on the content. Billed in arrears to a card. No free allowance was found.", "priceSummary": "$2.50 / 1k req", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in dev.meta.ai/llms.txt, the pricing page, the API reference or the billing help pages, checked 12 October 2026. Usage is charged to a card at a payment threshold or on the 1st of each month.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-12" }, "docsUrl": "https://dev.meta.ai/docs/overview", "llmsTxt": "https://dev.meta.ai/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "inference.llm", "image.generate", "image.edit", "speech.stt", "speech.streaming" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "model", "usage-priced", "closed-source", "llms-txt", "multimodal", "streaming", "openai-compatible", "anthropic-compatible", "card-required" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-12", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 52.2, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 757, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1010, "categoryRank": 16, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 75, "maintenance": 46, "payments": 20, "reliability": 40, "schema": 60, "security": 64, "transparency": 52 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-12" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Meta Model API serves Muse Wonder, in preview since 12 October 2026, and Muse Spark with 1M-token context, constrained JSON Schema output, automatic prompt caching and per-token prices published without a login. Standard-mode content is not used for training. There's no free allowance, status history, OpenAPI file, deprecation policy or way to force a tool call.", "bestFor": "Long-running agent and coding work over text, images, video, audio and PDFs with a 1M-token context, where training must stay off by default.", "strengths": [ "Muse Wonder and Muse Spark take text, image, video, audio and PDF input with a 1,048,576-token context window", "Per-token prices, per-model rate limits and rate-limit headers published without a login", "Content sent in Standard mode is not used to train Meta models, and training use is opt-in through `-contributor` model IDs", "Responses, Chat Completions and Messages endpoints, so the OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs work with a base-URL change", "llms.txt and a Markdown copy of every docs page, with an error guide that gives the Retry-After value for each retryable error" ], "weaknesses": [ "Muse Wonder is labelled a preview, and no deprecation policy or notice period was found", "No free API allowance found, and billing is set up with a card", "No status page with history. The docs' status link redirects to the home page, and `/v1/status` reports only the current state", "`tool_choice` accepts only `auto`, so a call can't be forced or ruled out", "No OpenAPI file, batch endpoint or Model API changelog found, and API keys have no scopes" ], "agentNotes": [ "Use `muse-wonder-1.0` for long multi-step work and `muse-spark-1.3` for cheaper, high-volume calls. Both take the same requests", "Keep personal or confidential data away from `-contributor` model IDs. Meta may train on that content", "Honour Retry-After on 429 and 503, which is 60 seconds for `service_overloaded`, and check `GET https://api.meta.ai/v1/status`, which needs no key", "Pass the key to the OpenAI SDK explicitly or set `OPENAI_API_KEY`. The SDK doesn't read `MODEL_API_KEY`", "Leave `tool_choice` at `auto`. The docs say `none` and `required` are not supported" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 52.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 75, "maintenance": 46, "payments": 20, "reliability": 40, "schema": 60, "security": 64, "transparency": 41 }, "provenanceScore": 63 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -X POST \"https://api.meta.ai/v1/responses\" \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $MODEL_API_KEY\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"model\": \"muse-spark-1.3\", \"input\": \"What is the capital of France?\"}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.llm", "tool": "https://letme.dev/meta-model-api" }, "sameCompany": [ "muse-code" ], "area": "models", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Muse Wonder input", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 4, "note": "Standard mode, muse-wonder-1.0. No long-context premium." }, { "item": "Muse Wonder cached input", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 0.2 }, { "item": "Muse Wonder output", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 20 }, { "item": "Muse Spark input", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 1.25, "note": "Standard mode, muse-spark-1.3, 1.2 and 1.1." }, { "item": "Muse Spark cached input", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 0.15 }, { "item": "Muse Spark output", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 4.25 }, { "item": "Muse Spark input, Contributor mode", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 0.1, "note": "Meta may use the content to train its models." }, { "item": "Muse Spark output, Contributor mode", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 0.2, "note": "Cached input is $0.002 per million tokens." }, { "item": "Web search grounding", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 2.5, "note": "Per 1,000 search queries, on top of token cost." }, { "item": "Muse Image generated image", "unit": "image", "usd": 0.01 } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Meta Platforms, Inc.", "domain": "meta.ai", "domainRegistered": "2017-12-16", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://dev.meta.ai/legal/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-12", "notes": [ "The terms (last updated 9 October 2026) are an agreement with Meta Platforms, Inc., or Meta Platforms Ireland Limited for users in the European Region. The model card names the same two.", "The privacy field is the Meta Privacy Policy, which the terms link. www.facebook.com's robots.txt asks readers like ours not to fetch it, as the 8 October policy reading records, so it wasn't read. The terms also link a subprocessor list at forwork.meta.com/legal/mfw-subprocessor-list/ and the Meta Global Processor Terms, neither of which was read.", "RDAP for meta.ai gives a registration date of 16 December 2017. The API answers at api.meta.ai.", "No status page. The error guide links dev.meta.ai/status, which redirects to the home page. `GET /v1/status` is an unauthenticated health endpoint with no history.", "No Model API changelog was found. The only changelog on dev.meta.ai is Muse Code's.", "dev.meta.ai/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. www.meta.ai's robots.txt disallows ClaudeBot, so its security.txt wasn't requested. www.facebook.com/.well-known/security.txt is valid until 11 November 2026 and points to bugbounty.meta.com.", "developer.meta.com/ai/ redirects to dev.meta.ai." ], "score": 63 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/meta-model-api.json", "live": { "slug": "meta-model-api", "probe": { "target": "https://api.meta.ai/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-14T01:19:49.108393384Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 142, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 68, "p95ms24h": 149, "samples24h": 248, "samples30d": 295, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-12", "probes": 33, "ok": 33 }, { "date": "2026-10-13", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 14, "ok": 14 } ] }, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://meta.ai/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-13T15:45:19.692249963Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://dev.meta.ai/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-13T14:11:54.52368044Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://dev.meta.ai/legal/terms-of-service", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-13T20:12:25.733564957Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "0ef10c66f1b3" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-14T01:19:49.108393384Z" } }, "answer": "Meta Model API scores 52.2 (D) on agent readiness against RouterPlus's 51.2 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. RouterPlus leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing.", "b": { "slug": "routerplus", "name": "RouterPlus", "vendor": "RouterPlus", "vendorUrl": "https://routerplus.com", "kind": "router", "category": "inference", "summary": "RouterPlus is an LLM gateway that puts Claude, GPT and decision models behind one API key and a prepaid balance, with OpenAI-compatible and Anthropic-compatible endpoints at the providers' list prices.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/routerplus", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/routerplus.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/routerplus.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/routerplus.json", "license": "Closed service. No terms of service for the gateway were found on routerplus.com or app.routerplus.com on 13 October 2026. The only terms on the site govern the capacity request form and name EVO HQ Inc, a Delaware corporation (https://routerplus.com/capacity/terms/).", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.routerplus.com/v1", "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "A `tm_vk_` virtual key, sent as `Authorization: Bearer` or `x-api-key` on every route. A person signs up in the browser through Clerk with email verification, and the first key is shown once after sign-in. More keys come from the console or from `POST /api/identity/keys` with a console session. The programmatic signup route `POST /v1/signup` was removed and returns 404 (https://app.routerplus.com/docs/authentication.md, https://app.routerplus.com/docs/api-signup.md).", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Provider list prices per 1M tokens with no markup, paid from prepaid credits. Purchases start at $10, and RouterPlus matches the first $100 of purchases for eligible accounts. Signup adds no free credit. Inference through the caller's own provider keys (BYOK) carries no RouterPlus charge and needs no credit. Prices are public at https://app.routerplus.com/api/models.json (https://app.routerplus.com/docs/pricing.md).", "priceSummary": "0% fee", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in https://app.routerplus.com/llms-full.txt, checked 13 October 2026. Calls draw on a prepaid balance bought in the console's Billing page.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-13" }, "docsUrl": "https://app.routerplus.com/docs/overview", "llmsTxt": "https://app.routerplus.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "inference.router", "inference.llm", "inference.decision", "image.generate" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "router", "closed-source", "usage-priced", "prepaid", "llms-txt", "openai-compatible", "anthropic-compatible", "streaming" ], "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 51.2, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 777, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1010, "categoryRank": 17, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 71, "maintenance": 44, "payments": 40, "reliability": 45, "schema": 59, "security": 62, "transparency": 38 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-13" }, "negative": -2, "negativeNotes": [ "Misleading claim, seen 13 October 2026. The banner on https://routerplus.com/ reads \"Try RouterPlus with free credits\" and links to the playground, while the quickstart (https://app.routerplus.com/docs/quickstart.md) says \"Signup does not add free credit\" and the playground bills the organisation's credits (https://app.routerplus.com/docs/playground.md). Only an invitation link adds credit. -2." ], "verdict": "The docs are written for agents, every model price is public, and each response carries its own cost. No terms of service, privacy policy, status page or changelog were found. Signup adds no free credit, and the chat catalogue is Claude and GPT only.", "bestFor": "Teams that call Claude and GPT models from one key and want the cost of every call in the response, with their own provider keys where they have them.", "strengths": [ "llms.txt, llms-full.txt and a Markdown copy of every page, with an integration guide written for coding agents", "Every billed response carries `usage.cost` in USD, and `GET /v1/generation` lists each attempt behind a request", "Any chat model answers on both the OpenAI-compatible and Anthropic-compatible surfaces, with the format translated by the gateway", "Typed errors with a stable `error_type`, an origin header, and `retry-after` on rate-limit 429s", "The gateway stores no prompt or completion content for ordinary accounts, and BYOK inference carries no RouterPlus charge" ], "weaknesses": [ "No terms of service, privacy policy, status page, changelog or security.txt found for the gateway", "The chat catalogue on 13 October 2026 was nine Claude and ten GPT models, all marked as retained by the provider with no ZDR", "Signup adds no free credit, purchases start at $10, and keys stay at 20 requests a minute until the first purchase", "No idempotency keys, no batch route and no embeddings, and the `zdr` and `regions` filters remove every marketplace route", "Optimize, the eval-based model search the homepage leads with, is paused" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send `max_tokens` on every request. Without it the balance hold assumes up to 32,768 output tokens and can return `insufficient_quota` on a small balance", "Switch on `error_type`. Retry `rate_limit` after `retry-after`, and stop on `insufficient_quota`, which needs a person to add credit or raise a cap", "Don't add a retry loop on top of the SDK's. There is no idempotency key, so a retry that reaches a provider is billed again", "Copy model ids from `GET /v1/models` or /api/models.json. An unknown id is a 404 and the gateway never substitutes one", "Use `/v1/messages` for Claude when you need `thinking` or server tools, and `/v1/chat/completions` with `response_format` only for GPT ids" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 51.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 71, "maintenance": 44, "payments": 40, "reliability": 45, "schema": 59, "security": 62, "transparency": 26 }, "provenanceScore": 50 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -N https://api.routerplus.com/v1/chat/completions \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $TM_API_KEY\" \\\n -H \"content-type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"model\":\"claude-haiku-4-5\",\"stream\":true,\"max_tokens\":60,\"messages\":[{\"role\":\"user\",\"content\":\"hello\"}]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.router", "tool": "https://letme.dev/routerplus" }, "area": "models", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Markup on provider token prices", "unit": "pct", "usd": 0, "note": "Pass-through per the pricing docs. Credits are bought in $10 steps or more" }, { "item": "Claude Opus 5.5 input", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 4, "note": "claude-opus-5-5, served by Anthropic's API" }, { "item": "Claude Opus 5.5 output", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 20 }, { "item": "GPT-6.1 Sol input", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 2, "note": "gpt-6.1-sol, served by OpenAI's API, 1,050,000-token context" }, { "item": "GPT-6.1 Sol output", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 10 }, { "item": "Anthropic web search server tool", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 10, "note": "$10 per 1,000 searches, Anthropic's price, on top of tokens" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "EVO HQ Inc", "domain": "routerplus.com", "domainRegistered": "2014-04-15", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-13", "notes": [ "EVO HQ Inc, a Delaware corporation, is named only in the terms of the capacity request form at https://routerplus.com/capacity/terms/, which govern form submissions and not the gateway. The footer elsewhere reads © 2026 RouterPlus.", "No terms of service or privacy policy for the gateway were found. /terms, /privacy and /legal/terms answer 404 on both hosts, the signup page links neither, and the footer's Privacy and Security links open an email to founders@evo-hq.com. The docs' data policy page (https://app.routerplus.com/docs/data-policy.md) is the only data statement for the gateway.", "No status page. Model pages such as https://app.routerplus.com/models/claude-haiku-4-5 show per-provider uptime over the last 24 hours, with no incident history. A request to status.routerplus.com failed at our proxy with a 502, so whether it exists is unchecked.", "No changelog found. /changelog and /docs/changelog.md answer 404, and the blog's newest post is dated 13 August 2026.", "routerplus.com/.well-known/security.txt and app.routerplus.com/.well-known/security.txt answer 404.", "RDAP gives 15 April 2014 as the registration date of routerplus.com and 2 October 2026 as its last change, so the registration may predate the current owner." ], "score": 50 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/routerplus.json", "live": { "slug": "routerplus", "probe": { "target": "https://api.routerplus.com/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-14T01:19:55.653579676Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 638, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 645, "p95ms24h": 1293, "samples24h": 18, "samples30d": 18, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-13", "probes": 4, "ok": 4 }, { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 14, "ok": 14 } ] }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-14T01:19:55.653579676Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "Model API", "b": "Model router", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Meta", "b": "RouterPlus", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.meta.ai/v1", "b": "https://api.routerplus.com/v1", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Pay per use", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Closed service under the Meta Model API Terms of Service (last updated 9 October 2026), with Meta Platforms, Inc., or Meta Platforms Ireland Limited in the European Region, as the contracting party.", "b": "Closed service. No terms of service for the gateway were found on routerplus.com or app.routerplus.com on 13 October 2026. The only terms on the site govern the capacity request form and name EVO HQ Inc, a Delaware corporation (https://routerplus.com/capacity/terms/).", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-12", "b": "none", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Meta Model API scores 52.2 (D) on agent readiness against RouterPlus's 51.2 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. RouterPlus leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Meta Model API or RouterPlus?" }, { "answer": "Both need an API key.", "question": "Do Meta Model API and RouterPlus need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Meta Model API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.meta.ai/v1 and RouterPlus at https://api.routerplus.com/v1.", "question": "Can an agent call Meta Model API and RouterPlus without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Transparency \u0026 trust, 52 against 38" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Long-running agent and coding work over text, images, video, audio and PDFs with a 1M-token context, where training must stay off by default.", "slug": "meta-model-api", "watchFor": "Muse Wonder is labelled a preview, and no deprecation policy or notice period was found" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 45 against 40", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 20" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Teams that call Claude and GPT models from one key and want the cost of every call in the response, with their own provider keys where they have them.", "slug": "routerplus", "watchFor": "No terms of service, privacy policy, status page, changelog or security.txt found for the gateway" } ], "job": { 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RouterPlus leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing. Both do llm inference.", "verdicts": { "meta-model-api": "Meta Model API serves Muse Wonder, in preview since 12 October 2026, and Muse Spark with 1M-token context, constrained JSON Schema output, automatic prompt caching and per-token prices published without a login. Standard-mode content is not used for training. There's no free allowance, status history, OpenAPI file, deprecation policy or way to force a tool call.", "routerplus": "The docs are written for agents, every model price is public, and each response carries its own cost. No terms of service, privacy policy, status page or changelog were found. Signup adds no free credit, and the chat catalogue is Claude and GPT only." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/meta-model-api-vs-routerplus", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/meta-model-api-vs-routerplus.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/meta-model-api-vs-routerplus.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/meta-model-api-vs-routerplus.min.md" }, "markdown": "Meta Model API scores 52.2 (D) on agent readiness against RouterPlus's 51.2 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. RouterPlus leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing. Both do llm inference.\n\n- Meta Model API: grade D, 52.2/100, rank #757 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/meta-model-api.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/meta-model-api.json\n- RouterPlus: grade D, 51.2/100, rank #777 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/routerplus.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/routerplus.json\n- Best model APIs and inference for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/inference/index.md\n- All 190 models comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inference/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Meta Model API (D)\n\nGood for: Long-running agent and coding work over text, images, video, audio and PDFs with a 1M-token context, where training must stay off by default.\n\nAhead on:\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 52 against 38\n\nWatch for: Muse Wonder is labelled a preview, and no deprecation policy or notice period was found\n\n### RouterPlus (D)\n\nGood for: Teams that call Claude and GPT models from one key and want the cost of every call in the response, with their own provider keys where they have them.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 45 against 40\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 20\n\nWatch for: No terms of service, privacy policy, status page, changelog or security.txt found for the gateway\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Meta Model API | RouterPlus | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 40 | 45 | RouterPlus +5 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 60 | 59 | Meta Model API +1 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 75 | 71 | Meta Model API +4 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 64 | 62 | Meta Model API +2 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 40 | RouterPlus +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 46 | 44 | Meta Model API +2 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 52 | 38 | Meta Model API +14 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -2 | |\n| **Total** | | **52.2 · D** | **51.2 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Meta Model API | RouterPlus |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model API | Model router |\n| Vendor | Meta | RouterPlus |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.meta.ai/v1` | `https://api.routerplus.com/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Closed service under the Meta Model API Terms of Service (last updated 9 October 2026), with Meta Platforms, Inc., or Meta Platforms Ireland Limited in the European Region, as the contracting party. | Closed service. No terms of service for the gateway were found on routerplus.com or app.routerplus.com on 13 October 2026. The only terms on the site govern the capacity request form and name EVO HQ Inc, a Delaware corporation (https://routerplus.com/capacity/terms/). |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-12 | none |\n| Terms last updated | | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Meta Model API.** Meta Model API serves Muse Wonder, in preview since 12 October 2026, and Muse Spark with 1M-token context, constrained JSON Schema output, automatic prompt caching and per-token prices published without a login. Standard-mode content is not used for training. There's no free allowance, status history, OpenAPI file, deprecation policy or way to force a tool call.\n\n**RouterPlus.** The docs are written for agents, every model price is public, and each response carries its own cost. No terms of service, privacy policy, status page or changelog were found. Signup adds no free credit, and the chat catalogue is Claude and GPT only.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Meta Model API\n\n1. Use `muse-wonder-1.0` for long multi-step work and `muse-spark-1.3` for cheaper, high-volume calls. Both take the same requests\n2. Keep personal or confidential data away from `-contributor` model IDs. Meta may train on that content\n3. Honour Retry-After on 429 and 503, which is 60 seconds for `service_overloaded`, and check `GET https://api.meta.ai/v1/status`, which needs no key\n4. Pass the key to the OpenAI SDK explicitly or set `OPENAI_API_KEY`. The SDK doesn't read `MODEL_API_KEY`\n5. Leave `tool_choice` at `auto`. The docs say `none` and `required` are not supported\n\n### RouterPlus\n\n1. Send `max_tokens` on every request. Without it the balance hold assumes up to 32,768 output tokens and can return `insufficient_quota` on a small balance\n2. Switch on `error_type`. Retry `rate_limit` after `retry-after`, and stop on `insufficient_quota`, which needs a person to add credit or raise a cap\n3. Don't add a retry loop on top of the SDK's. There is no idempotency key, so a retry that reaches a provider is billed again\n4. Copy model ids from `GET /v1/models` or /api/models.json. An unknown id is a 404 and the gateway never substitutes one\n5. Use `/v1/messages` for Claude when you need `thinking` or server tools, and `/v1/chat/completions` with `response_format` only for GPT ids\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Meta Model API or RouterPlus?\n\nMeta Model API scores 52.2 (D) on agent readiness against RouterPlus's 51.2 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. RouterPlus leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Do Meta Model API and RouterPlus need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Meta Model API and RouterPlus without installing anything?\n\nYes. Meta Model API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.meta.ai/v1 and RouterPlus at https://api.routerplus.com/v1.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/meta-model-api-vs-routerplus.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/meta-model-api-vs-routerplus.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"meta-model-api\", \"b\": \"routerplus\"}`. 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