Pricing transparency moat

We never touch your provider bill.

API-key users bring provider keys. Anthropic, OpenAI, Bedrock, or Google bill you directly. prxy.monster bills a separate per-request gateway fee for MCP pruning, caching, context preservation, pattern injection, routing, and cost guards.

Where the money goes

This table compares published billing mechanics as of May 4, 2026. It avoids private enterprise terms and only uses public pricing/docs.

Question prxy.monster OpenRouter Portkey Helicone LiteLLM
Who bills provider inference on BYOK? Your provider bills you directly. prxy does not settle or mark up BYOK inference. OpenRouter says provider prices pass through; BYOK has a fee after the free monthly request allowance. Published plans price recorded logs / requests and gateway features. Published plans price subscription plus usage-based requests/storage. Self-hosted OSS: you run it and pay providers directly.
Hosted billing unit Gateway requests. Model token prices / credits. Recorded logs / requests. Requests, storage, and plan tier. OSS self-host; hosted/enterprise terms are separate.
Provider-token markup on prxy-style BYOK? No. There is no provider-token line item from prxy. No inference markup per FAQ; BYOK after 1M requests/month has a 5% fee tied to OpenRouter-equivalent model cost. No public provider-token markup claim found; plan is not priced as prxy-style request-only BYOK. No public provider-token markup claim found; plan includes usage-based gateway/observability costs. No hosted markup in OSS mode.
Agent-coding modules MCP Optimizer, Compaction Bridge, Semantic Cache, Cost Guard, Patterns, IPC. Gateway/model access focus. Gateway, observability, guardrails, caching. Gateway and observability focus. Unified proxy, routing, spend tracking, guardrails.
Public payment ledger receipts.prxy.monster for settled agent-commerce receipts. Not a public ledger. Not a public ledger. Not a public ledger. N/A.

Sources: OpenRouter FAQ, OpenRouter pricing, Portkey pricing, Helicone pricing, LiteLLM GitHub.

Plans

Free

$0 forever

1,000 requests/month · hard cap

  • BYOK provider billing
  • Local mode
  • Core production modules
  • Community support
Start free

Pro

$20 / month

100,000 requests/month · $0.20 per 1k overage

  • All production modules
  • API-key management
  • Module analytics
  • MPP merchant endpoint preview
Go Pro

Team

$99 / month

1,000,000 requests/month · $0.10 per 1k overage

  • Team controls
  • Audit logs
  • Shared policies
  • Priority support
Go Team

Receipts are part of the product

For API-key BYOK, prxy bills gateway requests and your provider bills tokens directly. For managed MPP, the $0.05 agent-paid call includes gateway execution and upstream inference after settlement is enabled.

The public receipt ledger is agent-readable infrastructure for settled MPP and merchant calls. It is not a substitute for your private provider invoice.

Public ledger

Itemized receipt surface for agent commerce.

Open receipts