Frequently Asked Questions

You absolutely can,and you will pay the same price. MixRoute gives you five things the official API does not: one key for all providers, reserved capacity that bypasses public rate limits, automatic failover when a provider goes down, cross-timezone scheduling that keeps capacity working 24/7, and a unified bill instead of juggling 3-5 separate accounts.

OpenRouter charges a 5.5% platform fee on credit purchases. We charge zero. Same models, same API compatibility, but your budget goes 100% to tokens. More importantly, we hold reserved capacity and do cross-timezone scheduling,that is infrastructure-level reliability that a pure routing layer cannot offer. We also provide local invoices for Asian markets that OpenRouter does not support.

We are an authorized cloud reseller for AWS, GCP, and Azure with volume agreements. Our business model is the same as any cloud reseller,we earn through our provider partnerships, not by charging you more. It is how the cloud distribution industry has worked for decades.

No. We do not store your prompts or responses by default. Only metadata,token counts, latency, cost,is retained for billing and your usage dashboard. See our Privacy Policy for the full details.

We purchase dedicated throughput (Provisioned Throughput) from cloud providers. Your API requests are routed through this reserved pool,not the shared public queue that every other user competes for. This means significantly lower latency and near-zero 429 errors, even during peak hours. Our global scheduling system dynamically allocates this capacity across time zones, so someone is always using it and nothing goes to waste.

One MixRoute API key gives you access to Claude, GPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, Qwen, and 200+ other models from every major provider. No separate accounts, no separate billing, no separate dashboards. Change the model name in your request and you are calling a different provider,same key, same endpoint, same SDK.

Yes. On your first top-up, you get both the first-deposit bonus and the regular tier bonus for the amount you deposit, the two stack for maximum rewards.

No. All credits are valid forever, with no expiration. Whether you top up through self-serve or an enterprise plan, your balance never expires. Use the API at your own pace, you never have to worry about losing unused credit.

Self-serve tiers accept credit cards (Visa, Mastercard, JCB) and cryptocurrency (USDT / USDC). Enterprise plans primarily use bank wire transfer, come with an invoice, and offer flexible payment terms.

Any single top-up of $30,000 USD or more qualifies for enterprise onboarding. Click Contact Sales and our team will reach out within 24 hours with a tailored quote, contract, and bonus plan up to 25%.

Rewards and commissions are platform API credit. Once transferred to your account balance they can be spent, and they are eligible for the daily spend-back program (see the pricing page for details). Cash withdrawal is not supported at this time.

Almost all models count toward commissions; a few specific models are excluded, and spending on them is not counted toward volume or commissions. See the reference list for details.

No. Share rates are calculated in tiers. A new rate applies only to volume earned after you cross the threshold; earlier volume is never recalculated.

Example: once your total volume reaches $8,000 and you hit Platinum, only volume after that earns 1.5%. So when your total volume reaches $8,200, only the $200 above the threshold earns 1.5%; everything up to $8,000 stays at the rate of the tier you were in at the time.

Once your friend completes their first top-up and spends $20, the invite reward is credited automatically. As a partner, last month’s commission is settled automatically on the 1st of each month.

Not at all. You don’t need to code or build a website. Just copy your unique link and share it on social, your blog, YouTube, or directly with friends to start promoting.

MixRoute is built and operated by ELITE CLOUD. Since 2022, ELITE CLOUD has served 2,100+ enterprise customers worldwide and holds 150+ cloud certifications as an official partner of AWS, GCP, and Azure.

Our business model works the same way the cloud reseller industry has for decades: we earn through supplier partnerships, not by marking up your bill. Billing follows official pricing, and usage is auditable line by line.

No. Your content exists in memory only while it is being processed. Nothing is written, logged, or used for training. We retain only the usage data required for billing and never touch your actual content.

Aggregation platforms typically add a 5–10% fee and route requests through the public queue. MixRoute charges 0% markup at official pricing, routes requests through reserved capacity instead of the public queue, and fails over in milliseconds when a provider goes down so your service stays up.

Go to console.mixroute.ai to register and get one API key for 200+ mainstream models. It is OpenAI SDK compatible, so switching models takes just one parameter change. A limited-time free trial is available now.

Yes. Triage adds one extra step, and the time varies with request length. It’s a trade: a little time for 20–40% off your costs. For latency-critical endpoints, use a regular key to call a specific model directly and skip the router.

It reads, it never stores. Request content is classified in memory in real time, cleared immediately afterward, and passed through to the target model untouched. Nothing is written to persistent storage, consistent with MixRoute’s zero data retention policy.

Your model pool is the insurance: the router only ever chooses among models you’ve authorized and never assigns anything outside the pool. If some traffic must always hit one specific model, create a separate regular key for it and call that model directly.

One word: control. Most auto-routers are a total black box where the platform decides everything. MixRoute’s Smart Routing runs inside a model pool you define, with zero data retention and a savings dashboard. You always know where the money is saved and where your data goes.

No. Create a Smart Routing API key in the console and swap it in for your current key. The API call format stays exactly the same.

Free for a limited time. Once the free period ends, only requests that go through Smart Routing are charged a 5% service fee on that request’s cost. It’s deducted from your credit balance, with a transparent, itemized bill.

MixRoute is built by a cloud infrastructure company. We monetize enterprise contracts and committed-use volume with providers — not per-token markups on developers. Routing your requests at list price costs us almost nothing at our scale, and it earns your workload.

Straight from each provider’s published pricing page — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and the rest. We pass them through 1:1. Check any price on our models page against the provider’s own site.

MixRoute is OpenAI-compatible. Point your base URL at api.mixroute.ai, swap in your MixRoute key, and keep the same model names. Most teams are done in under five minutes — migration guide here.