Routed on your evals
Your production traffic, scored on your evalsExample workload
Only models that clear the bar get routed, per task
- Support triageQwen 3
- ExtractionDeepSeek V4
- Code reviewGPT-5.6
- AgentsKimi K2
RouterPlus vs OpenRouter
OpenRouter routes on list price. RouterPlus routes on your evals, reserves your capacity, and negotiates your price.
// routed on price
const client = new OpenAI({
baseURL: "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
apiKey: process.env.OPENROUTER_API_KEY,
});// routed on your evals
const client = new OpenAI({
baseURL: "https://api.routerplus.com/v1",
apiKey: process.env.ROUTERPLUS_API_KEY,
});Three things you hit at scale
Capacity that's yours
On OpenRouter's pay-as-you-go plans you share provider capacity with everyone else, and provider limits apply. RouterPlus sources reserved throughput across providers on one contract.4
Terms from 1 week to 12 months5
Wholesale pricing
OpenRouter passes through list price on every plan; Enterprise discounts its fee, not tokens. RouterPlus buys across providers, so high-spend teams pay less per token.6
One quote, shopped across providers
Providers, sourced for you
We find providers, load-test them on your traffic, negotiate the price and keep a backup lined up.
Teams tried 3–4 providers before us and kept our first match
Feature by feature
| Feature | OpenRouter | RouterPlus |
|---|---|---|
| Routes on | NoPrice + recent uptime3 | YesYour evals + your production traffic |
| Picks the model | NoYou pick, or Auto Router picks per prompt; it picks a provider6 | YesTests models on your workload, routes per task |
| BYOK fee | NoFree to $25k/mo of list-price inference, then 5%6 | Yes0%, always2 |
| Capacity | NoShared pool on pay-as-you-go plans4 | YesReserved, across providers, one contract5 |
| Token pricing | NoProvider list price6 | YesNegotiated, shopped across providers |
| Backup provider | NoFalls back to other shared endpoints3 | YesSourced and lined up for you |
| Contractual SLA | PartlyEnterprise plan only6 | YesYes, written into your contract |
| Regional routing | PartlyBusiness plan (8% fee) and up6 | YesYes |
OpenRouter facts from openrouter.ai, checked October 25, 2026.
The BYOK fee at scale
Switch in one line
- baseURL: "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
- apiKey: process.env.OPENROUTER_API_KEY,
+ baseURL: "https://api.routerplus.com/v1",
+ apiKey: process.env.ROUTERPLUS_API_KEY,Don't want to rip anything out? Run RouterPlus behind your existing gateway. See the gateway guide
Who switches
- Testing modelsthe playground, no code; first $100 of credits matched
- In productionrouting on your own traffic
- Using your own keys0% fee at any volume
- Scalingreserved capacity, better quotes, a backup provider
Questions teams ask
Is it a drop-in replacement?
For chat, yes: RouterPlus speaks the OpenAI and Anthropic formats, so you change the base URL, the key and the model IDs. Embeddings, audio, moderation, files and batch aren't supported yet.
What happens to our existing provider contracts?
They keep working. Connect your OpenAI, Anthropic or Azure key or a Bedrock role, and the provider keeps billing you directly while RouterPlus charges no fee.2
Where does our data go?
Billing, telemetry and process logs keep metadata only: tokens, timings, outcomes and cost. Requests and responses on shared endpoints sit in an encrypted debug log for up to 30 days; dedicated endpoints and organizations that opt out are excluded.7
Get a free AI spend review
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