Uprouter Online
Uprouter Online is an independent, developer-facing directory of AI API providers, routers, and model endpoints. It normalizes pricing, free-tier value, risk, confidence, and live status, and also provides Uprouter Connect, a unified gateway for routing requests through multiple providers.
At a Glance
- Developers and AI application builders
- Prototype, hobby, and model-evaluation users
- Teams operating low-volume or production AI workloads
- Organizations needing multi-provider failover, spend controls, or self-hosted deployment
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Uprouter Online
AI API Provider Directory
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Latest News
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Products & Services
A community-kept directory of model aggregators, first-party APIs, free relays, subscription routers, and cloud platforms. Entries include normalized USD-per-million-token pricing, free-tier value, risk notes, confidence, live probe status, sources, and change history. Community members can vote, review, and propose corrections.
A self-hosted gateway distributed under the MIT license through GitHub. It exposes OpenAI- and Claude-compatible endpoints, routes BYOK provider credentials, supports failover aliases and 19 routing strategies, encrypts credentials with AES-256-GCM, meters requests, and includes MCP, A2A, PWA, Docker, and dashboard functionality.
Public APIs for querying providers, exporting the dataset, searching suggestions, retrieving models and aggregate statistics; the provider API supports server-side filters and pagination and the dataset API supports JSON/CSV export.
Market Position
Uprouter positions itself as both a data-true, community-curated AI-provider directory and a self-hostable multi-provider gateway. Its differentiation is normalized pricing/free-credit data, source links, verification dates, community corrections, no pay-to-rank, and a BYOK/self-hosted Connect layer; AlternativeTo lists OpenRouter, LiteLLM, and 9Router as alternatives.
Founding Story
The project says it was created because AI API pricing is scattered, uses inconsistent units, and is often buried behind marketing. Its initial vision is to normalize provider data, cite primary sources, timestamp verification, and let a community keep the index accurate rather than selling placement.
Business Model
Revenue Model
The directory is free to read and is supported by ads. Provider listing/submission and correction are free and placement is not sold. Connect BYOK routing has no subscription fee; pooled, Uprouter-hosted gateway requests consume internal compute credits on a per-request basis. The site also says some provider entries may contain disclosed affiliate links.
Pricing Tiers
Browse, filter, compare, verify, and submit providers without an account.
Self-hosted or managed gateway routing using the user's own provider keys; no monthly routing fee.
New accounts receive $10.00 of welcome compute; pooled requests meter per request and have a stated fair-use cap of 200 successful requests per day.
Target Markets
- Developers and AI application builders
- Prototype, hobby, and model-evaluation users
- Teams operating low-volume or production AI workloads
- Organizations needing multi-provider failover, spend controls, or self-hosted deployment
- Comparing AI API providers, routers, prices, free tiers, risk, and live status
- Prototyping and hobby projects using free AI API allowances
- Model evaluation and low-volume production workloads
- Production applications needing provider failover and portability
- Reducing credential-management and integration complexity across multiple AI vendors
- Self-hosting an AI gateway for teams that need control over keys, database, routing, and spend