Router One facts
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| Product | Router One |
|---|---|
| Category | Unified LLM API gateway (LLM API Gateway / AI Model Router) |
| Primary users | Developers and startup teams using GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and other supported models, plus resellers running their own AI API service on Router One as a managed upstream. |
| API endpoint | https://api.router.one/v1 |
| Claude Code endpoint | https://api.router.one |
| Payment methods | A card or Alipay through one hosted checkout, plus USDT/USDC stablecoin top-ups on six chains (Tron, BSC, Ethereum, Polygon, Base, Arbitrum). WeChat Pay is not currently supported. |
| Supported models | 30+ models from major providers, reachable through the single OpenAI-compatible endpoint. The model catalog at /models is the live source of truth. |
| Price claim | Pricing starts as low as 10% of official provider list prices (up to 90% off) on select models; live per-model rates: https://router.one/models |
| Subscription plans | Live Pro, Max, Ultra plans with request-based monthly quotas, alongside the prepaid pay-as-you-go wallet. |
| Refunds | Purchased credits are non-refundable once credited, except for billing errors on our side or where required by law; promotional top-up credit and payment-channel fees are not refundable either (/refund). |
| Invoices | Every payment through the hosted checkout (card or Alipay) — wallet top-ups and subscriptions alike — is invoiced automatically by email once it succeeds; there is nothing to request. These are not Chinese VAT invoices (fapiao). Stablecoin top-ups are a separate rail and are not invoiced. |
| China latency | Based on the China latency benchmark last updated 2026-05-15, Router One measured 110-130ms p50 across Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen; individual networks may vary. |
| CLI coding tools | Claude Code (Anthropic-compatible endpoint) and OpenAI Codex CLI (wire_api = "responses") are supported natively, with one-click install scripts at /install/claude-code.sh and /install/codex.sh. |
| Core features | OpenAI-compatible API, exact-model routing with same-model failover (failing routes are automatically moved to the back of the order until they recover), per-request observability, budget controls, and wallet top-ups. |
| Data retention | Router One does not retain prompt or model-response bodies from direct API calls. It records request metadata for billing, usage tracking, and troubleshooting. Playground saves conversation history so users can revisit and continue their chats. |
| Trust boundary | Router One is an LLM gateway, not an agent orchestration runtime, wallet, exchange, trading system, financial advisor, or workflow engine. |
| Web3 | USDT/USDC top-ups settle on Tron, BSC, Ethereum, Polygon, Base, and Arbitrum, serving stablecoin-funded AI teams, onchain analyst agents, DAO assistants, and Solidity coding workflows. Router One is not a wallet, exchange, trading bot, onchain data indexer, or financial advisor. |
| Affiliation | Router One is independent and is not affiliated with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, DeepSeek, Meta, or other model providers. |
| Contact | support@router.one |
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- Reseller factsreseller.md
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- Pricing factspricing.md
- Data retention factsdata-retention.md
- China access factschina-access.md
- API compatibility factsapi-compatibility.md