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Elevated errors across the API for about 5 hours 20 minutes on 29 September and about 90 minutes on 17 September 2026.", "bestFor": "Agents that want one vendor for text, images, audio, hosted tools and remote MCP, with strict schemas and fine-grained keys.", "strengths": [ "Official OpenAPI document and an llms.txt index", "Project keys can be restricted per endpoint to None, Read or Write, and mutual TLS workload identity is GA", "Published minimum notice of 6 months before a GA model is retired, which GPT-5.1 and GPT-5.3-Codex got on 1 October", "GPT-6 Luna at $0.10/$0.50 per million tokens with the same 1.05M context as Astra", "Scale Tier comes with a 99.9% uptime SLA" ], "weaknesses": [ "Elevated errors across the API for about 5 hours 20 minutes on 29 September and about 90 minutes on 17 September 2026", "Heavy migration calendar. 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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. 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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": "OpenAI", "b": "RouterPlus", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.openai.com/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": "Apache-2.0 (SDKs)", "b": "Closed service. 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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/openai-api-vs-routerplus", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-api-vs-routerplus.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-api-vs-routerplus.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-api-vs-routerplus.min.md" }, "markdown": "OpenAI API scores 83.3 (A) on agent readiness against RouterPlus's 51.2 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. RouterPlus leads on payments \u0026 pricing. Both do llm inference.\n\n- OpenAI API: grade A, 83.3/100, rank #4 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-api.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/openai-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### OpenAI API (A)\n\nGood for: Agents that want one vendor for text, images, audio, hosted tools and remote MCP, with strict schemas and fine-grained keys.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 70 against 45\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 100 against 59\n- Agent ergonomics, 98 against 71\n- Security \u0026 auth, 100 against 62\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 91 against 44\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 90 against 38\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n\nWatch for: Elevated errors across the API for about 5 hours 20 minutes on 29 September and about 90 minutes on 17 September 2026\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- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 30\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 | OpenAI API | RouterPlus | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 70 | 45 | OpenAI API +25 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 100 | 59 | OpenAI API +41 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 98 | 71 | OpenAI API +27 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 100 | 62 | OpenAI API +38 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 40 | RouterPlus +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 91 | 44 | OpenAI API +47 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 90 | 38 | OpenAI API +52 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -2 | |\n| **Total** | | **83.3 · A** | **51.2 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | OpenAI API | RouterPlus |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model API | Model router |\n| Vendor | OpenAI | RouterPlus |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.openai.com/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 | Apache-2.0 (SDKs) | 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 | 2026-10-05 | none |\n| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | |\n| Popularity | 31k stars | none |\n| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (8) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**OpenAI API.** Official OpenAPI document and an llms.txt index. Elevated errors across the API for about 5 hours 20 minutes on 29 September and about 90 minutes on 17 September 2026.\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### OpenAI API\n\n1. Build on the Responses API. Astra calls tools only there\n2. Use `gpt-6-luna` for routing and extraction and `gpt-6.1-sol` for most work. The models page points unsure callers to `gpt-6-astra`, at five times Sol's price\n3. Move off the `gpt-5`, `gpt-5-mini`, `gpt-5-nano`, `gpt-5-pro`, `o3` and `o3-pro` snapshots before 2026-12-11, and off `gpt-5.1`, `gpt-5.3-codex` and `gpt-5.4-nano` before 2027-04-01\n4. Treat 429 `slow_down` as a ramp limit and 503 `server_is_overloaded` as a retry, and follow `Retry-After` when it's sent\n5. Prompts over 272K tokens cost double on input. Trim before you pay for it\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, OpenAI API or RouterPlus?\n\nOpenAI API scores 83.3 (A) on agent readiness against RouterPlus's 51.2 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. RouterPlus leads on payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Do OpenAI API and RouterPlus need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call OpenAI API and RouterPlus without installing anything?\n\nYes. OpenAI API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.openai.com/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/openai-api-vs-routerplus.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-api-vs-routerplus.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"openai-api\", \"b\": \"routerplus\"}`. 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