Start with three distinct concepts

OpenTokenRouter separates “we know the provider's public price” from “this deployment can route and settle the model now”:

  • Official reference price is evidence from a provider and does not promise that an upstream is configured.
  • Settlement price comes from the active billing configuration used to charge a request.
  • Routable status means a matching usable channel exists; a model without one remains reference-only.

Publication rules

Models are not shown on the public catalog unless an administrator publishes them. A channel model without real settlement configuration is not assigned a plausible-looking fallback price. Read price source, verification time, and routing state together.

Before sending production traffic

  1. Confirm the model name and catalog state on live pricing.
  2. Sign in and verify that the model is available to your user group.
  3. Send a small real request and reconcile usage logs with the balance change.
  4. Long context, caching, image, audio, and tool calls can have separate rules beyond base input pricing.

Prices change. OpenTokenRouter is designed to keep sources and settlement logic traceable instead of replacing real billing with an unfulfillable discount label.