Credits and payments

AnonRouter runs on prepaid credits. One credit is one US dollar. Your balance is denominated in USD, and inference draws down against it.

How usage is charged

Text models are billed per token. Image generation is a flat price per image, and speech is priced per character. Each request first reserves a worst-case amount from your balance, then settles to the actual usage the provider reports. Because settlement can only lower the reserved amount, inference can never take your balance negative.

Model usage is charged at the displayed provider rate with no per-model markup.

The service fee

Buying credits adds a 12% service fee, subject to a $1 minimum. The fee is shown as a separate line item before you pay. It applies to credit purchases only, not to individual inference requests.

Buying credits

Credits are purchased from the dashboard, not through the API. Preset packages are $5, $10, $25, $50, $100, and $250, and you can enter a custom whole-dollar amount up to $1,000.

Two payment methods are supported:

• Card. A hosted checkout through a third-party card processor.
• Crypto. An invoice through a self-hosted crypto payment processor, payable with Bitcoin on-chain or Bitcoin Lightning. A crypto quote is valid for 15 minutes. Your order moves to paid once the payment is confirmed on-chain.

Reading your balance and usage

A management key can read your balance and usage programmatically.

curl "$ANONROUTER_BASE_URL/balance" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ANONROUTER_MANAGEMENT_KEY"

{
  "account_id": "acct_...",
  "available_usd": 42.5,
  "reserved_usd": 0.0,
  "updated_at": "2026-07-30T12:00:00.000Z"
}

GET /v1/usage returns a list of recent requests as metadata only, each with request_id, model, operation, token counts, cost_usd, status, and latency. Add ?workspace_id=<id> to scope it to one workspace.

Receipts and orders

With a session, the dashboard exposes order and receipt history:

To watch a purchase complete, poll the order until its status becomes paid and credited_at is set.