AI Spend Calculator
How much of your AI bill is overspend?
Bills balloon for one reason: simple requests running on frontier-grade models. Answer two questions and see how much Smart Routing puts back in your budget each year.
How much do you spend on models each month?
That's $60,000 a year — every number below is calculated from it.
What does your workload look like?
Or pick a preset:
With Smart Routing, you save per year
How this number is calculated
Assumptions — adjust freely
Cost to switch
Switching is one line.
Live in five minutes
Grab a free key at console.mixroute.ai ($5 credit, no card). On OpenRouter or any OpenAI-compatible SDK? Change one line of base URL and you're done.
That's the whole migration. Same request format, same SDK, same model names in your pool. Your next call gets routed to the right size and billed at provider list price.
Side by side
OpenRouter vs MixRoute.
| What we compare | OpenRouter | MixRoute |
|---|---|---|
| Fee on card top-ups | ≈ 5.5% | 0% |
| Fee on crypto top-ups | ≈ 5.0% | 0% |
| Who sets the routing boundary New | Auto mode: the platform decides | Only within a pool you define |
| Can you audit the savings New | — | Per-request detail in the dashboard |
| Routing fee New | Per their published terms | 5% on routed requests only |
| Model pricing | Provider list price | Provider list price |
| Usage markup | 0% | 0% |
| High-volume rebates | — | ✓ |
| Free credit to start | — | $5, no card |
| OpenAI-compatible API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Prompt retention | Optional logging | Zero-retention, memory-only |
| Provider failover | May switch to another model | Automatic cross-provider |
| Credit expiry | Expires per their terms | Never expires |
Fee rates per OpenRouter's published pricing as of July 2026; auto-routing behavior per each platform's public docs.
Fair questions
The things you'll want to ask.
How can MixRoute charge zero markup?
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.
Where do the model prices come from?
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.
How do I migrate from OpenRouter?
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.
One key away
Same workload. Smaller bill. Save —.
At —, that money stays in your budget every year. Heavy work still runs on frontier models; simple work stops paying frontier prices. At — and this mix, the bill won't change and we won't pretend it will. What you do get: cross-provider failover, zero-retention prompts, and one key to every model.
No card · OpenAI-compatible API