# plaingateway pricing

Read 2026-11-14. Model prices read 2026-11-11 00:00 UTC.

- The free OpenRouter alternative: tokens cost the provider's list price, and we add nothing on top. 0% platform fee, no subscription, free with your own keys.
- Credit: prepaid, with 0% platform fee.
- Smallest top-up: $5 USD, in whole dollars. A new account can add at most $5000 USD in its first 24 hours.
- First top-up bonus: an extra $5 on a first top-up of $5 or more.
- Own keys: no fee from us at any volume, no card. The provider bills you for the tokens.
- Bonus credit: each task adds bonus credit to the next top-up you make by hand, up to 20%: 1% for each person you invite, once they have paid $20 in total, and more for posting about plaingateway or adding your own key. Pay $100, get up to $120 of credit. Someone you invite gets 5% bonus credit on their first top-up, or $5 if that is more. You earn 10% of what they pay, for one year, up to $1000 from each person (https://plaingateway.com/docs/referral/how-it-works).
- OpenRouter, read 2026-11-11: "OpenRouter charges a 5.5% ($0.80 minimum) fee when you purchase credits." (https://openrouter.ai/docs/faq)
- Each model is served by one named host, the pinned host. Every response carries its cost in `usage.cost`, and a non-streamed one in the `X-PG-Cost-USD` header.

Pricing page: https://plaingateway.com/pricing
Per-model prices, with the host that serves each model: https://plaingateway.com/models.md
Top-up rules: https://plaingateway.com/docs/billing/credits