Transparent pricing
You pay exactly what the upstream provider posts, in USD, plus VoltAI's gateway fee. The fee is the same for every customer, printed on every invoice.
| Model | Context | Output · in / out | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
claude-opus-4-7 Anthropic | 200K | $5.000 / $25.00 | Frontier reasoning, agents |
claude-sonnet-4-6 Anthropic | 200K | $3.000 / $15.00 | Balanced code + chat |
claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 Anthropic | 200K | $1.000 / $5.000 | Fast, cheap, agentic |
gpt-5.5 OpenAI | 400K | $5.000 / $30.00 | Default ChatGPT model |
gemini-3.1-pro-preview Google | 2M | $2.000 / $12.00 | Long context, multimodal |
DeepSeek-V4-Pro DeepSeek | 128K | $1.760 / $3.520 | Reasoning, code, math |
DeepSeek-V4-Flash DeepSeek | 128K | $0.140 / $0.280 | Cheap, multilingual |
Kimi-K2.6 Moonshot | 256K | $0.900 / $4.050 | Long context, Chinese |
All prices in USD per 1M tokens. Subject to upstream provider changes — we mirror their rate within 24 hours.
How VoltAI compares
Honest table. Dimensions that matter, compared with the gateway you're likely evaluating.
| Dimension | VoltAI | OpenRouter | CN low-cost gateways | Direct provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Currency | USD native | USD native | CNY with spread | USD (varies) |
| Markup | +5% flat, shown | +5% flat | mixed, unpublished | n/a |
| Model substitution | Zero — contractual | Zero | Reported | Zero |
| Benchmark parity published | Daily, raw JSON | No | No | Vendor's own |
| Refund on parity fail | Full billing period | Case-by-case | Rare | n/a |
| OAuth-subscription risk | None — API key only | None | High | None |
| BYOK (zero-trust) | Enterprise | No | No | n/a |
| Invoice / audit export | CSV, per request | CSV | Limited | Varies |
| Jurisdiction | Wyoming, USA | Delaware, USA | Mainland CN | Varies |
Competitor column summarises publicly advertised behaviour of OpenRouter and of the cluster of CN-facing gateways (laozhang, packycode, nekocode, etc.) as of 2026-05. If you spot an inaccuracy, email integrity@voltai.one — we fix and credit.
No surprises
Pay-as-you-go
Top up any amount in USD. Unused credit refundable within 30 days.
Per-request invoicing
Every call logged: tokens in/out, latency, exact fee. Export CSV anytime.
No currency games
USD in, USD out. Daily FX snapshot published for CNY top-up. No hidden spread.
Cache passthrough
Upstream prompt caching applied automatically where supported. Discount shown, not pocketed.
Start with $5 of free credit
No credit card. If our numbers don't match the provider's, we refund the month.