AI at a Fraction of the Cost. Credits Never Expire.
Aegis provides OpenAI-compatible access to frontier models with measured-energy billing, cache-aware routing, and tools that reduce unnecessary context work for coding agents.
Agent setup
Paste one key into your IDE agent.
OpenCode
Use Aegis as the OpenAI-compatible base URL.
Codex
Store the key as your API credential for agent runs.
Claude
Point compatible clients at the Aegis endpoint.
AEGIS_API_KEY=aegis_...
OPENAI_BASE_URL=https://api.aegisrouter.com/v1Pricing
PAYG · $10/kWh
Credits
Never expire
Commitment
No monthly fee
Price comparison
Pay for measured compute, then use less of it.
Pay-as-you-go — no monthly commitment, no subscriptions. Top up with credits that never expire, and pay only for the energy each request consumes at $10/kWh. Aegis Pro adds reserved concurrency and optimizer controls while keeping the same usage rate. The calculator shows an estimate; actual requests are billed from measured energy when available.
| Provider | Pricing basis | Monthly cost |
|---|---|---|
Aegis usage aggressive optimization; energy cost is an estimate until measured | $10.00/kWh estimated energy | $75.00cheapest |
OpenRouter GLM-5.2 token-billed aggregator | $0.93/$3 per 1M | $80.397.2% more |
GPT-5.3 Codex direct coding model | $1.75/$14 per 1M | $215.60187.5% more |
Claude Sonnet 5 direct coding model | $2/$10 per 1M | $200.20166.9% more |
PAYG
$10/kWh
No monthly fee. Start with a $20 top-up; credits never expire.
Aegis Pro
$10/mo
Includes $5 monthly usage credit, reserved concurrency, and advanced optimizer controls.
Agent Native
Use Aegis with OpenCode, Codex, Claude-compatible clients, and custom coding agents.
Measured Energy
Track request usage at a clear $10/kWh customer rate.
Cost Efficient
Aegis optimizes expensive request patterns so agent-heavy development consumes less measured work.
Key Control
Generate, copy, and delete API keys from a focused developer console.
Energy cost calculator
Estimate spend from your token volume.
Adjust context, output, request volume, and optimization mode to compare Aegis against OpenRouter GLM-5.2, GPT-5.3 Codex, and Claude Sonnet 5.
Aegis monthly cost
$86.09
Savings vs GLM-5.2
0.0%
Input after optimization
49.28M tokens
Aegis gross margin
25.0%
| Provider | Pricing basis | Monthly cost |
|---|---|---|
Aegis usage balanced optimization; energy cost is an estimate until measured | $10.00/kWh estimated energy | $86.09cheapest |
OpenRouter GLM-5.2 token-billed aggregator | $0.93/$3 per 1M | $80.390.0% more |
GPT-5.3 Codex direct coding model | $1.75/$14 per 1M | $215.60150.4% more |
Claude Sonnet 5 direct coding model | $2/$10 per 1M | $200.20132.6% more |
Optimization reduces the input work Aegis needs to meter before sending the request upstream.
Every provider is modeled against the same token workload and output volume.
Aegis charges measured energy at $10/kWh. Optimization can reduce the energy measured and the resulting PAYG or Pro-credit debit.
01
Create account
Sign up with email and password.
02
Top up credits
Choose $20, $50, $100, or $250 in PAYG credits that never expire — pay only for what you use.
03
Paste key
Use the Aegis key in your agentic IDE or SDK.