Claude API access, as low as 30% of list price

Claude models are excellent and priced accordingly. Router One resells metered access through one gateway account: select Claude models go as low as 30% of official list prices, cache reads and writes are discounted the same way, and you can top up without a US credit card. Same wire format, plus a ledger for every request.

How the discount works

1. 1Metered per token, prepaid walletYou pay the discounted per-token rate shown on the model page — no seats, no minimum commitment. Wallet balance is drawn down per request.
2. 2The catalog is the price sheetEvery Claude model lists its current input/output and cache rates on /models, struck through against the base rate, so you can verify the discount before calling.
3. 3Documented methodologyHow Router One sources capacity and sets prices is written up on the pricing methodology page — no mystery meat.

First Claude call in 3 steps

Create a key, top up in your currency, and call /v1/messages — the native Anthropic wire format, reachable from Mainland China without a VPN.

1. 1Create an API keySign up at router.one and create a key in the dashboard. Top up with Alipay, WeChat Pay, Stripe, or USDT/USDC — no US credit card required.
2. 2Point your client at the gatewayUse https://api.router.one/v1/messages for the Anthropic-native format (Claude Code works out of the box), or https://api.router.one/v1/chat/completions for OpenAI-compatible clients.
3. 3Verify the cost traceOpen Dashboard → Logs after your first request to see model, tokens, latency, and the exact discounted cost per call.

# Native Anthropic wire format via Router One
curl -X POST https://api.router.one/v1/messages \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk-your-router-one-key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model": "<claude-model-id>", "max_tokens": 1024,
       "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]}'

No low fixed cap for normal paid usage. Abuse prevention, per-account protection limits, and upstream constraints may still apply; if a request returns 429, check Dashboard -> Logs or contact support to raise limits.

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