Why GridRouter
What's free, what you'll pay for
Free forever
$0The hard part, given away.
Routing and fallbacks
Provider preferences, best-value routing and waterfall fallbacks on every call.
One API, one key
One input and output schema per capability, whichever vendor answers.
MCP server
Every operation is a tool your agent can call, with OAuth and scoped tokens.
Your own vendor keys
Calls on your keys are never marked up or metered, on any plan.
Quality scores
Fill rate, accuracy, latency and cost per verified hit, before you call.
Pay for scale
Not charged during launchWhat we store and run for you. Free covers a lot of each.
Storage
- Call logs, up to 360 days
- Free plan: 100k calls a month, 30 days
- Private cache records
- Free plan: 50k records
- Request and response bodies
- Free plan: 1 GB
Past Free: $2 per 100,000 calls; $1 per 10,000 record-months (hot), $0.25 cold; $0.05 per GB-month
Operations
- Saved waterfalls and pipelines
- Free plan: 5
- Queues, retries and rate-limit governance
- Free plan: 1 queue
- Log drains to your own tools
- Free plan: Paid plans
Governance
- Workspaces
- Free plan: 2
- Active API keys
- Free plan: 25
- Read-only SQL and anomaly alerts
- Free plan: Paid plans
Security on every plan: envelope-encrypted key vault, hash-chained audit log, Postgres row-level isolation, scoped keys and agent tokens, vendor billing verification.
During launch everything is free and runs on your own vendor keys. None of the paid items is charged yet.
Why we split it this way
Routing shouldn't be a toll
A markup on every call taxes the thing you do most. Calls on your own vendor keys are never metered or marked up.
Storage and operations cost real money
Months of encrypted call logs, a private cache per workspace, queues and drains are infrastructure we run for you. That's what paid plans will cover.
Your vendor contracts stay yours
Keep your accounts and negotiated rates. Bring the keys; we seal them in the vault and check every call against the vendor's own billing rules.
GridRouter in one table
The same facts we put next to every competitor.
- Pricing model
- Free during launch. Paid plans will charge for storage, operations and governance, not per-call markup.
- Free tier
- Free plan: 100k logged calls a month, 30-day log window, 50k private cached records, 5 waterfalls.
- Markup on vendor prices
- 0% on calls made with your own vendor keys, on every plan.
- Bring your own vendor keys
- Yes, the only mode during launch. Keys are sealed with envelope encryption.
- Routing and waterfalls
- One schema per capability, provider preferences, waterfalls with stop rules and retries.
- Call logs
- Every call and attempt, bodies redacted and encrypted, with live tail. 30-day window on Free; drains on paid plans.
- Caching
- Private, encrypted cache per workspace. Cache hits are free.
- Security and compliance
- Envelope-encrypted vault, hash-chained audit log, Postgres row-level security, scoped keys. No SOC 2 report yet.
- MCP server
- Yes, with OAuth sign-in. API operations are also MCP tools.
- API docs
- OpenAPI spec with the API; the docs site is in progress.
- Open source
- No.
Questions
Is GridRouter free?
Yes, during launch everything is free and runs on your own vendor keys. Routing, the API, your key and the MCP server stay free after launch too.
What will paid plans charge for?
Storage, operations and governance past the Free allowances. Planned storage rates are $2 per 100,000 calls; $1 per 10,000 record-months (hot), $0.25 cold; $0.05 per GB-month. Queues, log drains, SQL and alerts come with paid plans.
Do I still pay my data vendors?
Yes. During launch every call runs on your own vendor keys, so the vendor bills you directly at your rate, and GridRouter adds nothing on top.