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RunAPI does not train on your requests and does not log prompt content for model improvement. Free models on OpenRouter are hosted by third-party providers under OpenRouter’s terms — those providers’ data policies apply. If you are routing client data or sensitive code, check the data policy of every provider in the chain, not just the gateway.

OpenRouter throttles accounts with $0 balance to 50 requests per day on free models. Depositing $10 raises that to 1,000 requests per day. RunAPI has no free inference tier, so there is no deposit requirement or request-cap — you pay per token at 50% of official rates from the first call.

Free models on OpenRouter are rate-limited and queue behind paid traffic. When you pin to a single free model you can hit the cap fast; the openrouter/auto endpoint spreads load across available free models to reduce that. RunAPI has no free tier, so all paid requests go through without queuing behind free traffic.

Yes. Set ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL to https://runapi.ai/v1 and use your RunAPI key as ANTHROPIC_API_KEY. The Claude Code shell — its agentic framework, slash commands, and tool calls — stays the same. You are changing the model that processes the prompts, not the client itself.

No. Both platforms expose an OpenAI-compatible API, so switching is a base URL and key change in your existing client. Point your client at https://runapi.ai/v1, swap in your RunAPI key, and keep the rest of your code as-is. You can run both in parallel during testing.

RunAPI charges 50% of each provider's official published rate. Claude Sonnet 4.6 runs $3 input and $15 output per million tokens versus $6 and $30 official; GPT-5.4 runs $1.25 input and $7.50 output versus $2.50 and $15. Image, video, and audio are billed per task at the same half-off positioning.

RunAPI ships an MCP server for MCP-aware tools like Claude Code and Cursor, a command-line tool, typed SDKs for Python, Node.js, PHP, Java, Ruby, and Go, installable agent skills, and a searchable prompt library. OpenRouter provides an OpenAI-compatible API and a web UI but does not include these additional tooling layers.

RunAPI covers LLMs from Claude, GPT, and Gemini families plus image, video, music, and audio generation — 230+ models in total. OpenRouter routes 300+ language models including many open-source and community models, but covers text only. If you need free or open-source LLM access at volume, OpenRouter has more options there.