No subscription. Two lines on the receipt, both in the open.
You pay what the route costs us, with no spread of ours on top of it. When you top up credit we add 5%, plus $0.35 to cover card processing — two separate lines on the receipt, never buried in the token price. Bring your own provider keys and both go away. There is no monthly fee, no seat count and nothing to cancel.
Pay as you go
Add credit, spend it on any model. That is the whole product.
Plus $0.35 per top-up, passed through at card cost and itemised as its own line.
Create an account- Every model at what its route costs us — no spread of ours
- 5% plus $0.35 per top-up, charged once and itemised — $5 of credit costs $5.60
- Every feature included: routing, caching, guardrails, batch
- Automatic failover and provider preferences
- Request logs, analytics, webhooks and audit trail
- Per-key spend caps and hard account ceilings
Credit never expires and is refundable minus payment processing. No monthly fee, no seats.
Bring your own keys
Use your own provider contracts and pay us nothing at all.
- Your provider keys, your negotiated rates and committed spend
- 0% — no top-up fee, no monthly fee, no percentage on usage
- Keys sealed with AES-256-GCM, never returned to a client
- Mix BYOK and Multigrid credit in one routing policy
- Spill over to our capacity when your quota runs out
- Identical routing, caching, guardrails and audit trail
You pay each provider directly. We only see the metadata needed to route and log the call.
Enterprise
For high volume, and for finance teams that need to talk to a person.
Plus $0.35 per top-up, passed through at card cost and itemised as its own line.
Talk to us- The same gateway — nothing here is locked behind this column
- A top-up percentage below 5%, agreed in writing at volume
- 0% on everything you serve with your own provider keys
- A hard account ceiling, so a pilot cannot overrun its budget
- A direct line to the person who wrote the routing layer
Still a balance, not a subscription — the negotiation is about the percentage, not a licence. SSO, SCIM, data residency and private deployment do not exist yet; ask us before you plan around them.
These are three ways to pay, not three products. Every feature is on for every account — the only thing that changes is whether the top-up fee applies at all, and at volume, what the percentage is.
What a month actually costs
Three shapes of workload, priced from the same catalogue the gateway bills against. Nothing to add for a subscription, because there is not one.
| Workload | Model | Requests / mo | Token cost | Platform fee 5% | Processing | Total you pay | Same, on BYOK |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Side project | Claude Haiku 4.5 | 5,000 | $20.00 | $1.00 | $0.35 | $21.35 | $20.00 |
| Growing SaaS | Claude Sonnet 5 | 400,000 | $5,600.00 | $280.00 | $0.35 | $5,880.35 | $5,600.00 |
| Coding agent | Claude Sonnet 5 | 1,200,000 | $64,800.00 | $3,240.00 | $0.35 | $68,040.35 | $64,800.00 |
Every cent of the token cost goes upstream — to the provider, and on a route reached through OpenRouter, to them as well. None of it is ours. The platform fee is the only money Multigrid keeps, and it is charged when you buy the credit, not when you spend it. There is no monthly fee to add to any of these rows.
The processing column assumes one top-up in the month, which is the cheapest case. It is $0.35 each time you add credit, so funding a month in four instalments costs $1.40 rather than $0.35. Topping up in larger, less frequent amounts is genuinely cheaper, and it is the only part of this page where that is true.
On BYOK you pay the provider directly under your own contract and we take no percentage at all — the last column is the same workload with our fee removed entirely.
Bring your own keys — 0%
Add your own provider keys and no percentage applies. You keep your negotiated rates and committed spend, and we charge you nothing at all on that traffic.
Prepaid credits
Credit is never added automatically. You top up manually, and you can set a balance level that sends a low-balance alert — but requests start failing when the balance runs out. The 5% and the $0.35 are both charged at top-up and both itemised on the receipt. Credits never expire and are refundable minus payment processing.
Hard spend caps
Per key, per project or account-wide. When the cap is hit, requests are rejected — not queued and billed.
Every line, compared
Not a feature ladder — the same platform, billed three ways. Where a row is crossed it is crossed in all three columns, because nothing here is gated behind a plan: it means the feature does not exist yet, not that you need to pay more for it.
| Feature | Pay as you go | Own keys | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost | |||
| Platform fee on credit top-ups | 5% | No top-ups needed | Under 5% |
| Card processing, per top-up | $0.35 | — | $0.35 |
| Fee on BYOK traffic | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Our own spread on token prices | None | None | None |
| Directly-keyed providers — their list price | |||
| OpenRouter-served models — their price + their 5.5% | Your key, no fee | ||
| Monthly platform fee | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Charged per seat | |||
| Minimum top-up | $5 | — | $5 |
| Credit expires | |||
| Batch discount | |||
| Account-wide rate tier | |||
| Rate limit you set per key | |||
| Bring your own keys | |||
| Use your own provider contracts | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Your own key preferred over ours | |||
| Falls back to our capacity | |||
| Keys encrypted at rest (AES-256-GCM) | |||
| Keys sealed in HSM-backed KMS | |||
| Mixed BYOK and credit routing | |||
| Routing | |||
| Automatic failover | |||
| Provider preferences (order, ignore, sort) | |||
| Fallback model chains | |||
| Auto router — cheapest that fits | |||
| Per-request cost ceiling | |||
| Visual policy editor | |||
| Shadow traffic | |||
| Latency SLOs | |||
| Optimisation | |||
| Prompt caching passthrough | |||
| Exact-match cache (opt-in per request) | |||
| Semantic cache | |||
| Batch job queue | |||
| Cost optimiser recommendations | |||
| Observability | |||
| Request log — metadata, never bodies | |||
| Trace view with every failover hop | |||
| Analytics dashboards | |||
| CSV export of your own requests | |||
| OTLP trace export | |||
| Signed webhooks | |||
| Warehouse export | |||
| Prometheus endpoint | |||
| Quality | |||
| Playground and compare | |||
| Prompt presets with version history | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Submit your own quality scores | |||
| Eval suites | |||
| CI regression gates | |||
| LLM-as-judge scoring | |||
| Governance | |||
| Guardrails — PII, blocked terms, token and cost ceilings | |||
| Guardrails — prompt injection detection | |||
| Per-key budgets | |||
| Projects | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Team members and roles | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| SSO (SAML / OIDC) | |||
| SCIM provisioning | |||
| Custom roles | |||
| Audit log export | |||
| Data residency pinning | |||
| Self-hosted gateway | |||
| Support | |||
| Support form in the dashboard | |||
| Committed response time | |||
| Community chat server | |||
| Slack Connect channel | |||
| Named solutions engineer | |||
| Uptime SLA with service credits |
A sample of the catalogue
What each route costs us, which is what you are billed. Multigrid adds no spread of its own — see the note below on which of these are direct and which come through OpenRouter.
| Model | Reached via | Input / 1M | Cached input / 1M | Output / 1M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ling-2.6-flashinclusionai | OpenRouter · +5.5% | $0.010 | $0.0020 | $0.030 |
| Mistral Nemomistralai | OpenRouter · +5.5% | $0.019 | — | $0.030 |
| Llama 3.1 8B InstructMeta | Direct | $0.020 | — | $0.040 |
| Llama 3 8B Lunarissao10k | OpenRouter · +5.5% | $0.040 | — | $0.050 |
| MythoMax 13Bgryphe | OpenRouter · +5.5% | $0.060 | — | $0.060 |
| Mistral Small 3mistralai | OpenRouter · +5.5% | $0.050 | — | $0.080 |
| Gemma 3 4Bgoogle | OpenRouter · +5.5% | $0.050 | — | $0.100 |
| Granite 4.1 8Bibm-granite | OpenRouter · +5.5% | $0.050 | $0.050 | $0.100 |
| Ministral 3 3B 2512mistralai | OpenRouter · +5.5% | $0.100 | $0.010 | $0.100 |
| Nex-N2-Mininex-agi | OpenRouter · +5.5% | $0.025 | $0.0025 | $0.100 |
| Reka Edgerekaai | OpenRouter · +5.5% | $0.100 | — | $0.100 |
| Granite 4.0 Microibm-granite | OpenRouter · +5.5% | $0.017 | — | $0.112 |
We take no spread of our own on the per-token rate, and we never will — our cut is taken once, visibly, when you add credit. The alternative most gateways choose is a quiet margin on the token rate, which is impossible to check and gets worse as you scale.
What you are billed is what the route costs us. For the five providers we hold a direct key with — OpenAI, Anthropic, Groq, Together and DeepInfra — that is their published price, unchanged, to four decimal places. Most of the catalogue is reached through OpenRouter instead, and we pay for those in OpenRouter credit, which costs a dollar plus 5.5%. A route they list at $10.00 per million therefore costs us $10.55, and $10.55 is what the catalogue shows. The 5.5% is theirs, it is inside the rate you can see, and we add nothing to it.
The honest consequence, before you find it yourself: for a model that reaches you only through OpenRouter, we cannot be cheaper than OpenRouter — their fee sits underneath ours. What you get there is the breadth of the catalogue on one balance. The zero-spread advantage is real on the five providers above, and it grows every time one more of them is keyed directly.
The $0.35 beside it is card processing, passed through rather than marked up. Stripe charges 2.9% + $0.30 on the whole amount, and that fixed 30 cents swallows the entire margin on a small top-up: at our $5 minimum a percentage-only fee would lose us money on every transaction. Passing the fixed part through is what makes small top-ups possible at all.
It does mean the effective rate is worst at the bottom — $5.60 to buy $5 of credit is 12%, against 5.35% on $100. If you are only trying the product, top up the minimum and ignore this; if you are running it, top up in larger amounts less often.
If you would rather pay us nothing at all, bring your own provider keys. Both lines go to zero and there is no monthly fee behind them — the routing, caching, guardrails and audit trail work identically either way.
Check the arithmetic before you spend anything
Every price above is what that route costs us, and every fee is a line you can hold against a receipt. Add $10 of credit — $10.85 on the card — point one endpoint at Multigrid, and see whether the per-request costs match what you expected.