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Requesty vs OpenRouter: 5% fee, free plan and EU routing

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The Requesty homepage: 600+ models through one API, with routing, spend limits and governance.
The Requesty homepage: 600+ models through one API, with routing, spend limits and governance.截自 requesty.ai截图日期

Requesty 是什么

先用一两句话说清楚。

Requesty is a London-based LLM gateway, run by Requesty Ltd and seed-funded by 20VC in 2025, that sells OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible access to more than 600 models at list price plus a 5% top-up fee. It stands out for routing policies, spend controls and an EU endpoint in Frankfurt.

主要功能

它能做什么,每项一句话,以及我们有没有实测。

  • List price plus 5%

    Per-token prices in its model list match the makers' list prices, and a 5% service fee is added to every top-up: 100 USD of credit costs 105 USD.

    Per Requesty's pricing page and billing docs; no minimum fee or minimum top-up is stated.

  • Routing policies

    Fallback chains with 0 to 10 retries per model and exponential backoff, weighted load balancing and latency routing, called as model="policy/name".

    Per Requesty's fallback-policy docs; routing is set in the dashboard rather than per request.

  • Spend and access controls

    Spend limits per key, user or group, approved-model lists, allowed-IP lists, and PII and secrets guardrails.

    Per Requesty's docs; guardrail scanners carry a separate per-token charge on standard plans.

  • EU, US and APAC endpoints

    router.eu.requesty.ai keeps Requesty's own processing in Frankfurt; pairing it with an EU-region model such as bedrock/claude-sonnet-5-5@eu-central-1 keeps inference in the EU too.

    Per Requesty's EU routing docs. A non-EU model on the EU endpoint still sends inference outside the EU.

  • MCP Gateway

    Admins register MCP servers, choose which tools to allow and manage their keys; Claude Code, Cursor and Roo Code connect through router.requesty.ai/v1/mcp, with usage analytics.

    Per Requesty's MCP docs. It proxies servers you add; it is not an MCP server for Requesty's own data.

  • Free plan

    No card needed: free models only, at 200 requests a day, with routing, caching and analytics. Its model list showed 13 zero-priced models on October 21, 2026.

    Per Requesty's pricing page; no free credits are mentioned there.

  • Automatic prompt caching

    Adds Anthropic cache breakpoints for you; on by default for traffic from Cline, Roo Code, Open WebUI and some other clients.

    Per Requesty's auto-caching docs; a DataCamp tutorial notes caching only takes effect on Anthropic and Gemini models.

  • Agent Skills on GitHub

    The requestyai/skills repository holds 10 SKILL.md skills for its API, routing policies, guardrails, MCP gateway, model discovery and Claude Code and OpenCode usage analytics.

    The repository, created April 30, 2026, is not linked from Requesty's docs.

适合谁

它帮得上谁、解决什么问题、在哪个榜单里。

适合

  • European teams that want their gateway to process requests inside the EU
  • Engineering teams running Claude Code, Cline, Roo Code or Codex who want spend caps per developer
  • Companies that want fallback chains across Anthropic, Bedrock, Vertex and Azure for the same model
  • Developers who pay in GBP, EUR, INR, KRW or CNY, or by iDEAL, UPI or Naver Pay

解决的问题

  • No central control over which models staff use and how much they spend
  • One provider's outage stopping a production app or a coding session
  • Data-residency questions from European customers
  • Prompt-caching savings lost because clients do not set cache breakpoints

所在排行榜

擅长什么

别人公开做过的测试:给了它什么、结果怎样。

  1. 案例 1

    In a DataCamp tutorial by Bex Tuychiev (December 2025): moving an OpenAI SDK app to Requesty

    输入

    Calls to openai/gpt-5 and anthropic/claude-sonnet-4 through router.requesty.ai/v1, with streaming, a dashboard fallback chain and auto_cache on Anthropic.

    结果

    The base-URL swap worked and the session cost about 0.10 USD. Failover was configured but not exercised under a real outage, caching applied only to Anthropic and Gemini, and latency was not measured.

  2. 案例 2

    Per Requesty's Claude Code guide: routing Claude Code through Requesty

    输入

    ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=https://router.requesty.ai and ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN set to a Requesty key in ~/.claude/settings.json.

    结果

    Claude Code talks to Requesty's Anthropic Messages endpoint, can switch to other models, and its spend appears in Requesty's analytics. No public test has measured the latency this adds.

  3. 案例 3

    Per Requesty's EU routing docs: keeping a request inside the EU

    输入

    A chat request to https://router.eu.requesty.ai/v1 with the model bedrock/claude-sonnet-5-5@eu-central-1.

    结果

    Requesty processes the request in Frankfurt and the model runs in an EU AWS region. Prompt and output logging is still on by default on self-serve plans unless you turn it off for the key.

短板

做得不好的地方和证据,以及我们还没法定论的地方。

做得不好

做得不好

  • Prompts and outputs are logged by default.

    证据: Requesty's security page says content logging is on for self-serve plans, encrypted, stored in the EU and kept up to 30 days; it can be switched off per API key, and organisation-wide zero retention is available on written request.

  • Its SOC 2 status is unclear.

    证据: The security page (September 2026) calls the SOC 2 Type II programme "in progress", while older docs text and competitor comparisons describe Requesty as SOC 2 compliant.

  • Little independent evidence.

    证据: The only hands-on public write-up is a DataCamp tutorial without measurements. Requesty's overhead benchmark (16 ms against 55 ms for OpenRouter) is its own and gives no method; BenchLM describes a paid audit but publishes no per-platform numbers.

  • A small balance limits how many requests can run at once.

    证据: Requesty's docs set the organisation's in-flight limit at the balance times a tier multiplier (5, then 10 after 250 USD of lifetime spend, 15 after 1,000 USD): a 5 USD balance allows 25 concurrent requests.

  • No video models and few image models.

    证据: Its public model list on October 21, 2026 held chat models plus image generation through /v1/images for a small number of models such as azure/openai/gpt-image-1, and no video models.

  • Not for teams that need a finished SOC 2 report today, independently measured performance, or image and video generation.

    证据: The SOC 2 programme is "in progress" by Requesty's own account, no neutral test exists, and the model list has no video models.

尚不确定

尚不确定

  • Minimum top-up, refunds and credit expiry.

    原因: The pricing page and billing docs do not state them, and the terms page renders only a heading without JavaScript.

  • Whether bring-your-own-key traffic carries a fee.

    原因: Requesty's pages state no BYOK fee, but Kilo, a competitor, wrote in May 2026 that Requesty adds 5% on BYOK.

  • Real uptime.

    原因: Its status page showed 100% for the last 30 days and no incidents from August to October 2026; a 99.99% uptime SLA appears only in third-party comparisons, and no outside monitor was found.

  • Company size and track record.

    原因: Respan, a competitor, estimated about five staff in March 2026; Requesty pivoted to a gateway in 2025, and the three AWS Marketplace reviews describe its earlier analytics product.

价格、限制与格式

每个数字都附来源和核对日期。

项目数值备注与来源
OperatorRequesty Ltd, London; co-founders Thibault Jaigu (CEO) and Daniel Trugman (CTO); 2 million GBP seed led by 20VC, September 2025

来源:soapbox.vc核对于

Price against the makersMakers' list prices, e.g. Claude Opus 5.5 at 4 / 20 USD and GPT-5.4 at 2.50 / 15 USD per million input / output tokens

Anthropic and OpenAI list the same prices.

来源:router.requesty.ai核对于

Platform fee5% added to every top-up (100 USD of credit costs 105 USD); guardrail scanners billed separately on standard plans

来源:docs.requesty.ai核对于

Minimum top up and refundsNot stated in the pricing page or billing docs; the terms page shows only a heading without JavaScript

来源:requesty.ai核对于

Payment methodsCards charged in USD, GBP, EUR, JPY or CNY; iDEAL, Bancontact, EPS, Satispay, Billie, UPI, Naver Pay; invoicing by ACH or wire for enterprise; no PayPal or crypto mentioned

来源:docs.requesty.ai核对于

Free tierFree plan, no card: free models only, 200 requests a day

来源:requesty.ai核对于

Models600+ claimed; 803 chat model entries under 40 provider prefixes in its public list, many of them the same model on different clouds; no video models

来源:router.requesty.ai核对于

API formatsOpenAI Chat Completions and Responses, Anthropic Messages, embeddings, images, audio; tool calling, structured outputs, auto caching, web search

No batch endpoint is listed in its docs index.

来源:docs.requesty.ai核对于

MCPMCP Gateway at router.requesty.ai/v1/mcp proxies MCP servers your admins register; no Requesty MCP server for its own docs or account found in its docs

来源:docs.requesty.ai核对于

Agent Skillsrequestyai/skills on GitHub: 10 SKILL.md skills, not linked from its docs; Anthropic's Skills API not documented

来源:github.com核对于

Coding agentsGuides for Claude Code, Claude Cowork, Codex, OpenCode, Cline, Roo Code, GitHub Copilot, OpenClaw and the Claude Agent SDK

来源:docs.requesty.ai核对于

PrivacyPrompts and outputs logged by default on self-serve plans, up to 30 days in the EU, switchable per key; SOC 2 Type II "in progress"

来源:requesty.ai核对于

Status pagestatus.requesty.ai: 100% uptime over the last 30 days for every inference endpoint; no incidents in August, September or October 2026

来源:status.requesty.ai核对于

Concurrency limitBalance times a tier multiplier of 5, 10 or 15; no requests-per-minute cap

来源:docs.requesty.ai核对于

常见问题

先给结论,再讲原因、例子、限制和下一步。

Is Requesty cheaper than the official API?

Requesty costs slightly more than the official APIs: it charges the makers' list prices and adds 5% to every top-up. Claude Opus 5.5 is 4 / 20 USD per million tokens on both, so through Requesty it works out to 4.20 / 21 USD once the fee is counted.

限制

Its model list showed Claude Sonnet 5.5 cache reads at 0.20 USD per million tokens, double Anthropic's 0.10 USD, on October 21, 2026.

Does Requesty have free credits or free models?

Requesty's free plan covers free models only, at 200 requests a day, with no card required. The current pricing page mentions no free credits; a competitor's market map from March 2026 described an earlier 6 USD credit.

Is Requesty safe to use?

Requesty is a registered UK company with an EU processing option, but it logs prompts by default and its SOC 2 audit is still in progress by its own account. You can turn logging off per key and ask for organisation-wide zero retention in writing.

限制

Its terms page could not be read without JavaScript, so refund and suspension rules are unconfirmed.

Requesty vs OpenRouter: which is better?

Requesty suits teams that want dashboard governance and EU processing, while OpenRouter has the larger catalog and finer per-request routing. Requesty adds 5% to top-ups with no stated minimum; OpenRouter adds 5.5% and lists 686 models including video, against Requesty's chat-focused list.

原因

OpenRouter keeps prompt logging off by default and limits EU processing to its Business and Enterprise plans; Requesty logs by default but offers an EU endpoint on every plan.

Does Requesty support MCP?

Requesty supports MCP through its MCP Gateway, which proxies MCP servers your organisation registers. Admins choose which tools to expose and manage keys, and Claude Code, Cursor and Roo Code connect to router.requesty.ai/v1/mcp.

限制

Its docs show no Requesty-run MCP server for its own account data, and its API references do not document passing remote MCP servers to models.

Can I use Requesty with Claude Code?

Requesty documents Claude Code through its Anthropic-compatible endpoint. Set ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL to https://router.requesty.ai and ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN to a Requesty key; the same setup works for the Claude Agent SDK.

更多截图

  • Requesty's pricing page: free on free models, then a 5% markup on pay-as-you-go usage.
    Requesty's pricing page: free on free models, then a 5% markup on pay-as-you-go usage.截自 requesty.ai截图日期

公开测试怎么说

This page is built from Requesty's own site, pricing page, docs, security page, status page and public model list, the makers' price pages, a DataCamp tutorial, competitors' comparisons and Hacker News comments, all checked on October 21, 2026. Requesty's claims are labelled as its own. Independent evidence about Requesty is thin, and the page says where.

What Requesty sells

Requesty Ltd is a London company that started in 2023 as a customer-feedback analytics startup and pivoted to an LLM gateway in 2025. It raised a 2 million GBP seed round led by 20VC in September 2025, when it reported 25,000 developers (Soapbox); its docs now claim 70,000 developers and 90 billion tokens a day.

It sells one OpenAI-compatible base URL (router.requesty.ai/v1) and one Anthropic-compatible one (router.requesty.ai) in front of what it calls 600+ models from 30+ providers. Its public model list held 803 chat model entries under 40 provider prefixes on October 21, 2026. The prefixes are hosts, so one model often appears several times: Claude Sonnet 5.5 is listed under Anthropic, Bedrock and Vertex. There are no video models.

The pitch is control rather than catalog size: fallback chains, weighted load balancing and latency routing set in a dashboard, spend limits per key, user or group, approved-model lists, guardrails for personal data and secrets, analytics, and regional endpoints in the EU, US and Asia-Pacific.

Prices against the official APIs

Requesty's pricing page says you pay for what your application spends, plus 5%. The fee is added at top-up: a 100 USD top-up costs 105 USD (billing docs). Per-token prices in its model list mostly match the makers' list prices:

Model, per million input / output tokensRequesty list priceMaker's list price
Claude Opus 5.54 / 20 USD4 / 20 USD (Anthropic)
Claude Sonnet 5.5, cache read0.20 USD0.10 USD (Anthropic)
GPT-5.42.50 / 15 USD2.50 / 15 USD (OpenAI)
Gemini 3.8 Flash on Vertex0.75 / 3.75 USD0.75 / 3.75 USD through December 31, 2026 (Google)
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash0.30 / 1.20 USD from DeepSeek; 0.20 / 0.60 USD on DeepInfra0.30 / 1.20 USD at peak hours (DeepSeek)

Add 5% to every row. Requesty states no minimum fee, unlike the 0.80 USD minimum in OpenRouter's 2025 fee post. The Sonnet 5.5 cache-read figure is double Anthropic's, and Requesty does not say whether that is what it charges. Your concurrency limit is your balance times a tier multiplier, so a 5 USD balance allows 25 requests in flight (docs).

What public tests show

  • DataCamp tutorial by Bex Tuychiev (December 2025): a hands-on setup with the OpenAI SDK. The base-URL swap worked for about 0.10 USD of calls; failover was configured but never triggered, caching only applied to Anthropic and Gemini, and latency was not measured.
  • BenchLM (September 2026): describes a paid audit of 900 identical requests to OpenRouter, DeepInfra, Together, Requesty and Fireworks, but publishes no per-platform numbers and does not say who paid.
  • Requesty's own benchmark (April 2026, vendor): claims about 16 ms of gateway overhead against about 55 ms for OpenRouter and 124 ms for self-hosted LiteLLM, with no models, request counts, regions or code given.
  • Competitors' comparisons: TrueFoundry (updated October 2026) lists no self-hosted option, no HIPAA and no routing to self-hosted or fine-tuned models as weaknesses; Orq.ai (August 2026) cites a smaller provider ecosystem and the 5% fee. Neither measured anything.

No independent latency, uptime or output-quality test of Requesty has been published.

What users report

Public user discussion is sparse. On Hacker News one account recommended Requesty for pinning providers (September 2026) and as the main EU alternative to OpenRouter (August 2026); another listed it among European alternatives (June 2026). On GitHub, many 2026 issues ask agent tools to add Requesty as a provider. No Trustpilot or Product Hunt listing turned up, and the three reviews on its AWS Marketplace listing date from 2024 and describe the earlier analytics product. Respan, a competitor, estimated about five employees in March 2026.

MCP, Agent Skills and coding agents

  • MCP: the MCP Gateway proxies MCP servers that your admins register at router.requesty.ai/v1/mcp, with tool allow-lists, organisation-wide keys (per-user keys on Enterprise) and usage analytics; Requesty documents it for Claude Code, Cursor and Roo Code (setup). No Requesty-run MCP server for its own docs, usage or account appears in its docs, and its Responses and Messages references do not document passing remote MCP servers to models.
  • Agent Skills: requestyai/skills on GitHub, created April 30, 2026, holds 10 SKILL.md skills covering API integration, routing policies, guardrails, the MCP gateway, model discovery, cost and observability, plus usage analytics for Claude Code and OpenCode, with a Claude Code plugin manifest. The docs do not link it. Anthropic's Skills API is not documented.
  • Coding agents: guides cover Claude Code, Claude Cowork, Codex, OpenCode, Cline, Roo Code, GitHub Copilot's custom endpoint, OpenClaw and the Claude Agent SDK (docs index). Auto caching is on by default for Cline and Roo Code traffic.
  • API formats and SDKs: Chat Completions, Responses and Anthropic Messages, embeddings, images and audio, with tool calling, structured outputs and web search; no batch endpoint is listed. It has an official Vercel AI SDK provider, LangChain and PydanticAI guides, and an llms.txt index.

Privacy, terms and who runs it

Requesty's security page says prompts and outputs are logged by default on self-serve plans, encrypted and kept up to 30 days in the EU; you can turn logging off per key and request organisation-wide zero retention in writing. The EU endpoint keeps Requesty's processing in Frankfurt, but inference only stays in the EU if you pick an EU-region model. The same page calls its SOC 2 Type II programme "in progress", while older docs text and competitor comparisons describe Requesty as SOC 2 compliant.

Cards can be charged in USD, GBP, EUR, JPY or CNY, alongside iDEAL, Bancontact, UPI and Naver Pay; PayPal and crypto are not mentioned. The terms render only a heading without JavaScript, so refunds, credit expiry and blocked regions could not be checked. The status page showed 100% uptime for 30 days and no incidents from August to October 2026.

How it compares with OpenRouter, Eden AI and Cloudflare

  • OpenRouter lists more models, including video, and lets you filter hosts by price, latency or quantization per request. It adds 5.5% to purchases, keeps prompt logging off by default and limits EU processing to Business and Enterprise.
  • Eden AI, based in Lyon, adds a 5.5% platform fee; its EU endpoint refuses non-EU models outright.
  • Cloudflare AI Gateway also adds 5% to credit purchases, and Vercel AI Gateway adds no platform fee.

Who should skip it

Skip Requesty if you need a finished SOC 2 report now, independently measured performance, video generation or written refund terms before paying. Teams that pick it for EU processing should turn off logging per key and choose EU-region models.

来源

来源

  1. Requesty homepage (requesty.ai), 访问于
  2. Requesty pricing page: 5% fee, free plan (requesty.ai), 访问于
  3. Requesty security page: logging, retention, SOC 2 status (requesty.ai), 访问于
  4. Requesty terms page (requesty.ai), 访问于
  5. Requesty documentation index (llms.txt) (docs.requesty.ai), 访问于
  6. Requesty billing docs: top-ups, service fee, payment methods (docs.requesty.ai), 访问于
  7. Requesty bring-your-own-keys docs (docs.requesty.ai), 访问于
  8. Requesty EU routing docs (docs.requesty.ai), 访问于
  9. Requesty fallback policy docs (docs.requesty.ai), 访问于
  10. Requesty auto-caching docs (docs.requesty.ai), 访问于
  11. Requesty in-flight rate limit docs (docs.requesty.ai), 访问于
  12. Requesty guardrails docs (docs.requesty.ai), 访问于
  13. Requesty compliance report docs (docs.requesty.ai), 访问于
  14. Requesty MCP Gateway docs (docs.requesty.ai), 访问于
  15. Requesty MCP integration docs (docs.requesty.ai), 访问于
  16. Requesty web search docs (docs.requesty.ai), 访问于
  17. Requesty Claude Code integration docs (docs.requesty.ai), 访问于
  18. Requesty Vercel AI SDK provider docs (docs.requesty.ai), 访问于
  19. Requesty Responses API reference (docs.requesty.ai), 访问于
  20. Requesty Messages API reference (docs.requesty.ai), 访问于
  21. Requesty public model list API (October 21, 2026) (router.requesty.ai), 访问于
  22. Requesty status page (status.requesty.ai), 访问于
  23. requestyai/skills repository (GitHub) (github.com), 访问于
  24. Requesty raises 2 million GBP seed led by 20VC (Soapbox, September 2025) (soapbox.vc), 访问于
  25. Requesty market map entry (Respan, a competitor, March 2026) (respan.ai), 访问于
  26. Agentic routing, benchmarked (Requesty blog, April 2026) (requesty.ai), 访问于
  27. Requesty tutorial (Bex Tuychiev, DataCamp, December 2025) (datacamp.com), 访问于
  28. OpenRouter alternatives (BenchLM, September 2026) (benchlm.ai), 访问于
  29. Requesty vs OpenRouter (TrueFoundry, a competitor, updated October 2026) (truefoundry.com), 访问于
  30. OpenRouter vs Requesty (Orq.ai, a competitor, August 2026) (orq.ai), 访问于
  31. Requesty AI Gateway reviews (AWS Marketplace) (aws.amazon.com), 访问于
  32. Hacker News comment recommending Requesty for provider pinning (September 2026) (news.ycombinator.com), 访问于
  33. Hacker News comment on Requesty as an EU alternative (August 2026) (news.ycombinator.com), 访问于
  34. Hacker News comment listing European OpenRouter alternatives (June 2026) (news.ycombinator.com), 访问于
  35. Kilo Gateway now supports BYOK for 20 providers (Kilo blog, a competitor, May 28, 2026) (blog.kilo.ai), 访问于
  36. Claude API pricing (Anthropic) (platform.claude.com), 访问于
  37. OpenAI API pricing (OpenAI) (developers.openai.com), 访问于
  38. Gemini API pricing (Google) (ai.google.dev), 访问于
  39. DeepSeek API pricing (DeepSeek) (api-docs.deepseek.com), 访问于
  40. OpenRouter pricing page (openrouter.ai), 访问于
  41. Simplifying our platform fee (OpenRouter blog, June 2025) (openrouter.ai), 访问于
  42. OpenRouter public model list, all output types (October 21, 2026) (openrouter.ai), 访问于
  43. Eden AI plans and prices docs (edenai.co), 访问于
  44. Eden AI fallback and EU endpoint docs (edenai.co), 访问于
  45. Cloudflare AI Gateway unified billing docs (developers.cloudflare.com), 访问于
  46. Vercel AI Gateway pricing docs (vercel.com), 访问于

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