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TrustedRouter
Summary
Every LLM router promises privacy until a client asks you to prove it — and 'trust us' stops a deal cold. TrustedRouter exists for that moment.
The tool is a paid API gateway that sits between your existing OpenAI SDK calls and 600+ models across 90+ providers, routing traffic through an attested path the vendor states even its own engineers cannot read. One base URL swap is the entire migration. Named routing aliases — auto, zdr, e2e, eu — make privacy level, geography, and failover explicit at the call site rather than buried in config. The attestation model is the differentiator: the vendor publishes source commits and image digests so you can verify the gateway before production traffic moves. Where it breaks: this is a passive router with no built-in orchestration, so teams building multi-step agent pipelines still need a separate layer for task logic.
Bottom line: Pick TrustedRouter when a client contract requires you to demonstrate that prompts are not logged and one API key needs to reach dozens of models — but if your workload is agent orchestration with branching task logic, you are adding a second system on top of this one.
Pricing Plans
Usage-Based- Price
- Provider cost + 5.5% (text/embeddings); +20% (video)
Prepaid Usage
Pay provider price plus 5.5% for text/embeddings or provider quote plus 20% for video; no subscription
- Prepaid credits
- BYOK supported
- Auto-refill option
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Pros
Sign in to edit- One-line migration from OpenAI or OpenRouter — change base_url, keep the SDK — so teams avoid a rewrite when switching providers or adding privacy constraints.
- Attested gateway with published source commits and image digests, which means you can verify the no-log claim before a client or compliance review rather than asking them to take your word for it.
- Named routing aliases (auto, zdr, e2e, eu) declare privacy level and geography at the call site, so routing policy is visible in code rather than hidden in a dashboard toggle a teammate changed last quarter.
- Provider failover across GCP, AWS, and Azure keeps a single upstream outage from becoming a product outage — without requiring you to write retry logic or maintain a provider health monitor yourself.
- Usage-based billing with BYOK support, so teams with negotiated enterprise provider limits can route through their own keys rather than paying the markup on every token.
Cons
Sign in to edit- TrustedRouter is a passive router with no orchestration capability — teams building agents that branch based on prior step output, call tools, or run parallel tasks must add a separate orchestration layer, at which point they are maintaining two systems and the operational surface doubles.
- No self-hosted deployment option exists: the attested gateway runs on the vendor's infrastructure. Teams in air-gapped environments or under data-residency mandates that prohibit any third-party cloud path cannot use this product and will move to a self-hostable router or a direct provider SDK instead.
- The 5.5% markup on routed tokens is a fixed cost that compounds at high token volumes. Teams whose unit economics tighten as usage scales — and who do not need the attestation features — will find a direct provider integration cheaper and will migrate when the margin difference becomes material.
About
- API Available
- Yes
- Self-Hosted
- No
- Last Updated
- 2026-09-08T23:44:16.394Z
Best For
Who it's for
- Teams requiring attested no-log routing
- Users seeking OpenAI-compatible unified access
- Pay-as-you-go billing without subscriptions
- Workloads needing provider failover
What it does well
- Unified API access across multiple LLM providers
- Privacy-preserving model routing with attestation
- Failover and migration from other routers
- BYOK for committed spend or enterprise limits
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- Is TrustedRouter free?
- TrustedRouter is a paid tool (Provider cost + 5.5% (text/embeddings); +20% (video)). No permanent free tier is offered.
- Is TrustedRouter open source?
- No — TrustedRouter is a closed-source tool. Source code is not publicly available.
- Does TrustedRouter have an API?
- Yes. TrustedRouter exposes a developer API. See the official documentation at https://trustedrouter.com for details.
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TrustedRouter is a paid, cloud-hosted API gateway that exposes 600+ models from 90+ providers through a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Switching from another router or from OpenAI directly requires changing one line: the base_url. Routing behavior is controlled through named model aliases — trustedrouter/auto for healthy-provider rollover, trustedrouter/zdr for zero-retention routing, trustedrouter/e2e for end-to-end encrypted paths, and trustedrouter/eu for European infrastructure — or through direct model IDs when exact model selection matters. Billing is usage-based with a markup on routed tokens; no subscription tier is required.
The differentiating feature is the trust architecture. The vendor states that the production prompt path is physically separated from the dashboard and billing control plane, and that every trust claim is backed by inspectable evidence: a published source commit and image digest that you can match against the running gateway before sending production traffic. The case study the vendor cites — 170,974 legal documents processed, with an external client unwilling to accept a verbal no-log promise — illustrates the specific market this is built for. Attestation is not a checkbox; the vendor describes it as the product.
TrustedRouter fits teams that route many models but face compliance, legal, or client-trust requirements that rule out standard hosted routers. It works well as a drop-in replacement for OpenAI or OpenRouter when the existing SDK shape is preserved and the privacy tier can be declared per-call. It does not fit workloads that need the router itself to plan, branch, or execute multi-step logic — TrustedRouter is a passive gateway, not an orchestrator. Teams building agents with conditional task flows will need a separate orchestration layer, meaning they maintain two systems.
The vendor provides a bring-your-own-key (BYOK) path for committed spend or enterprise provider limits, provider failover so a single upstream outage does not surface to the end user, and an MCP server and llms.txt support for agent frameworks that auto-discover available models. Self-hosting is not available; the attested gateway is the vendor’s managed infrastructure.