OpenRouter fee calculator
How much are you overpaying on OpenRouter?
OpenRouter adds a 5.5% fee on every credit purchase.
MixRoute routes the same models at provider list price — zero markup. Drag the slider, meet your number.
same models same list prices 0% fee
OPENROUTER · 12 MO
list price × 1.055
$63,300
MIXROUTE · 12 MO
list price × 1.000
$60,000
YOU OVERPAY / YEAR
$3,300
That's your number
$3,300
The ≈ 5.5% platform fee on every credit purchase, stacked across 12 months — at $5,000/mo of API spend.
$5 credit included. No card required. OpenAI-compatible API.
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Transparent math
Where the money goes
OpenRouter
cost = list_price × tokens
+ 5.5% platform feeon every credit top-up
Fee paid / year $3,300
MixRoute
cost = list_price × tokens
+ 0that's the whole formula
Fee paid / year $0
Stop paying it — switch in 5 minutes
Create a free API key at console.mixroute.ai ($5 credit included, no card), then change one line in your code — the base URL:
− openrouter.ai/api/v1
+ api.mixroute.ai/v1
That's the whole migration. Requests, SDK, and model names stay exactly the same — your next call bills at provider list price.
Same models. Same provider list prices. The only variable is the fee layered on top — and ours is zero. Every price on MixRoute is verifiable against the provider's own pricing page.
Head to head
The full comparison
Nine rows. Where they match, that's the point. Where they differ, that's your money.
| What you're comparing | OpenRouter | MixRoute |
|---|---|---|
| Fee on credit purchases card payments | ≈ 5.5% | 0% |
| Fee on crypto top-ups | ≈ 5.0% | 0% |
| Model pricing per-token inference | Provider list price | Provider list price |
| OpenAI-compatible API drop-in base-URL swap | ✓ | ✓ |
| Automatic failover reroutes when a provider degrades | ✓ | ✓ |
| Prompt & completion retention | Optional logging | Zero-retention pass-through |
| High-volume rebates daily usage rebate tiers | — | ✓ |
| Enterprise monthly invoicing billed after usage, not prepaid | Prepaid credits only | ✓ |
| Free credit to start | — | $5 · no card |
Head to head
Fair questions
The three things every OpenRouter team asks before they switch.
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.
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