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RouterPlex free tier

🎁 Trials (no card when possible) · no card · live — last verified by a probe on 2026-11-01 · routerplex.com · back to the whole list

What you get

A one-time $1 of free credit on a prepaid reseller that bills its catalog at vendor list prices with 0% markup, no card — one key on both wires, OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions and an Anthropic Messages base Claude Code takes as it is

Free models

The vendor does not identify which models the free offer includes. See Limits for the published conditions.

Limits, in the vendor’s words

Key-creation grant: $1 once per account

Trial traffic: 10 requests/minute; 250,000 tokens/minute; 4 requests at once per account

The key-creation grant is for an account with no earlier paid top-up, existing credit or setup grant; signup has no payment step and the grant does not expire. It spends at catalog prices with no token markup. Before a first paid top-up, only an unpublished subset of models may accept promotional credit, at reduced rates. Terms do not guarantee a grant and allow one account per person. Continuing requires at least $5 by card or $15 by crypto. No legal entity is named; the catalog needs a key.

Where it is offered

The vendor names no country it keeps the offer from (source, read 2026-09-26).

What happens to what you send

What you send is not used to train models. In the vendor’s words: “RouterPlex does not use your prompts or outputs to train models … Every other model in the catalog remains covered by the no-training rule above.” (source).

Connect

Try it from your terminal with your key in ROUTERPLEX_API_KEY — it goes from your machine to the vendor and nowhere else:

curl -s https://api.routerplex.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ROUTERPLEX_API_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"2+2? MAKE NO MISTAKES."}]}'

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