Pricing · prxy.monster

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.

Plans

Pay-per-use by default. Subscriptions are optional volume packs for teams — not required to ship.

Free

$0 forever

5,000 requests/month · no card

BYOK — provider bills you
Full module pipeline trial
Local mode (MIT)
Agent setup prompts

Start free

Pay as you go

¢ per request

Top up credits in Lair after free tier

No monthly subscription
Auto-recharge optional
Same modules as paid tiers
Provider tokens still BYOK

Add credits

Pro volume

$20 / month optional

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

Lower $/request at scale
Module analytics
MPP merchant preview
Team? see Team tier

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, direct settled calls are $0.50 and funded sessions provide an effective $0.05 per call; both include gateway execution and upstream inference.

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