TrustedRouter

TrustedRouter is an AI model gateway for teams that need provider choice without handing every prompt to a new intermediary. A single OpenAI-compatible base URL fronts a public catalogue that currently lists 628 models across 94 providers, so switching from one frontier model to an open-weights route is a string change rather than an integration project.

What makes it different

The differentiator is verifiable privacy rather than a privacy promise. TrustedRouter runs its gateway on attested, measured infrastructure and states plainly that it keeps "0 prompt or output logs. Always" — billing records hold metadata only. Routes are labelled in the catalogue so you can filter for ZDR (zero data retention) and E2EE availability, restrict traffic to US or EU providers, or pin open-weights models only. The company publishes its control plane, attested gateway, infrastructure and SDK repositories publicly so the claims can be audited or the router self-hosted.

Practical details

• Failover — trustedrouter/auto moves a request to another provider when one route degrades.
• Bring your own key — use TrustedRouter's credits, or your existing provider keys.
• Pricing — usage-based with no subscription: provider cost plus 5.5% on text and embeddings (with a $0.01 per million token floor), and provider quote plus 20% for video generation. Payment by card, ACH, PayPal or stablecoin. Migration credits are offered to teams spending $100+/month.
• Drop-in SDKs — any OpenAI-compatible client works after changing base_url; Python and TypeScript SDKs and an API reference are published in the docs.

Who it is for

Engineering teams building on LLMs who want one billing relationship and one integration across many providers, and who have a compliance reason — regulated data, customer commitments, or an internal policy — to prove that prompts are not retained. It is a direct alternative to OpenRouter for that audience, matching the same 5.5% pay-as-you-go fee while competing on attestation and region control.

TrustedRouter has been in public beta since May 2026, launched on Product Hunt on 1 September 2026, and raised a $1.25M seed round reported by Axios in late August 2026.