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Amux AI vs Requesty

Amux AI vs Requesty: no service fee, more native protocols

Amux AI and Requesty both offer a unified LLM API. The differences: Amux AI bills inference at provider list price with no markup, charges no top-up fee and offers low-cost channels far below official pricing plus discounted official channels; it natively supports the Gemini protocol plus Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, Volcengine Seedance, MiniMax and xAI image and video protocols; bodies of successful text calls are not stored; and enterprise-grade organization management, with team budgets that need no enterprise plan. Requesty adds a 5% service fee and offers EU data residency, visual routing policies, an MCP gateway and BYOK.

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Last verified 2026-10-19

Platform service fee
0%
Requesty adds a 5% service fee on top of model prices
Max saving vs. official price
90%
From low-cost channels, based on live catalog prices; stable official channels are discounted too
Native text protocols
4
Including Gemini generateContent, which Requesty does not list
Bodies of successful text calls
Not stored
Requesty logs requests by default and keeps them for 30 days

Amux AI vs Requesty, feature by feature

FeatureAmux AIRequesty
Platform fees0% — no inference markup, no top-up fee; low-cost channels go far below official pricing, and official channels are discounted too5% service fee — described on the pricing page per model price ($10 → $10.50) and in the billing docs per top-up ($100 costs $105)
Free usagePay as you go — you pay only for what you useFree plan: 200 requests per day on free models only
Text protocolsNative OpenAI Chat, OpenAI Responses, Anthropic Messages and Gemini (generateContent), with most models callable across protocolsOpenAI Chat, Responses and Anthropic Messages; no native Gemini protocol listed in the docs
Image and videoImage: OpenAI Images and Alibaba Cloud Model Studio. Video: native Model Studio, Volcengine Seedance, MiniMax and xAI request formats plus a unified task API — existing client code only needs a new base URL and keyImages through the OpenAI Images API; no video generation in the docs
Embeddings and audioEmbeddings, speech and rerank endpointsComing soonEmbeddings, text-to-speech and speech-to-text; no rerank
Model coverage80+ text, image and video models, with more added regularly; 52 models can switch between providersAdvertises 600+ models
Routing and failoverFive routing strategies, configurable per API key; automatic failover on connection errors, timeouts, rate limits and server errors, with failed attempts not billedOrdered fallbacks, weighted load balancing and latency routing; failed attempts not billed
Teams and budgetsEnterprise-grade organization management: organizations, workspaces and roles (including a finance role); spend limits per workspace, member and key on every organization — no enterprise plan requiredMonthly limits per key; groups and team budgets, full RBAC and audit logs on Enterprise only
Logging and privacyRequest and response bodies of successful text calls are not stored; customer content is never used for trainingLogs kept by default, encrypted, for 30 days, and can be turned off per key; no training on paid plans
Usage and exportItemized charges for every call; monthly statements exported to Excel by key, model and workspaceCSV export from cost tracking; cost returned with each response
Single sign-onSAML single sign-onComing soonSAML / OIDC SSO on the Enterprise plan

Popular model pricing

Live Amux AI prices against official list prices, in USD per million tokens (input / output).

ModelOfficial priceAmux AI lowest priceSaving
GPT-6.1 Sol$2 / $10$0.1 / $0.5−95%
Gemini 3.8 Flash$1.5 / $7.5$0.15 / $0.75−90%
GPT-6 Astra$10 / $50$0.5 / $2.5−95%
GPT-6 Sol$2 / $10$0.1 / $0.5−95%

Prices are read live from the Amux AI model catalog and reflect the lowest-priced provider for each model. The model page at request time is authoritative.

Which one to choose

Choose Amux AI if

  • You want no platform service fee and leading models such as Claude, GPT and Gemini far below official pricing through low-cost channels, or at a discount through stable official channels
  • You use the native Gemini protocol or need video generation, and want to call models in the native Alibaba Cloud, Volcengine, MiniMax or xAI request formats
  • Your team needs budgets per workspace, member and key, with a finance role managing top-ups and invoices, without an enterprise plan
  • You want bodies of successful text calls left unstored

Choose Requesty if

  • You need EU data residency, or want to configure fallback and load-balancing policies visually in the console
  • You need an MCP gateway or guardrails such as PII masking
  • You need embeddings or speech endpoints today (on the Amux AI roadmap)
  • You want to bring your own provider keys (BYOK)

Switch from Requesty to Amux AI

Both work with the OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs and use the same manufacturer/model ID format. Switching only changes the endpoint and key — your application code stays as it is.

  1. 1Sign up for Amux AI and create an API key in the console.
  2. 2Replace the base URL with the Amux AI endpoint and the API key with your new key.
  3. 3Keep your existing model IDs; for the few models whose version format differs, copy the ID from the model page.
  • For requests that use a Requesty policy (policy/…), set a routing strategy on the Amux AI API key instead, or append ":provider" to the model ID to pin a provider.
  • Claude Code and the Anthropic SDK use the endpoint without /v1; the Gemini SDK can call generateContent directly.
Create an API keyTool setup guides
main.py− Requesty+ Amux AI
import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://router.requesty.ai/v1",
    base_url="https://gateway.amux.ai/v1",
    api_key=os.environ["REQUESTY_API_KEY"],
    api_key=os.environ["AMUX_API_KEY"],
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="openai/gpt-6.1-sol",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
)

Frequently asked questions

Amux AI has no inference markup and no top-up fee, offers low-cost channels far below official pricing plus discounted official channels, and natively supports the Gemini protocol plus vendor image and video protocols; bodies of successful text calls are not stored, and enterprise-grade organization management, with team budgets that need no enterprise plan. Requesty adds a 5% service fee and offers EU data residency, visual routing policies, an MCP gateway, embeddings and audio endpoints, and BYOK.

Amux AI connects each model to several providers in two kinds of channels: low-cost channels priced far below official pricing for cost-sensitive workloads, and official channels from model makers and major clouds that are stable and also discounted. Live per-provider prices are published on each model page; you can restrict an API key or workspace to official channels only, or set price-first routing.

A $100 top-up on Amux AI gives you $100 in credit with no fee. Requesty’s billing docs state that a 5% service fee is added to top-ups, so a $100 top-up costs $105 (as of 2026-10-19 — see the Requesty docs for current terms).

Usually two: point the base URL at the Amux AI endpoint and replace the API key with an Amux AI key. Model IDs use the same manufacturer/model format; check the Amux AI model page for the exact name of each model. Requests that use routing policies should use a strategy set on the API key instead.

Request and response bodies of successful text calls are not stored, and customer content is never used for training; prompts for image and video tasks are kept with the task for 30 days. Failed calls keep a limited sample for troubleshooting for up to 15 days, which you can turn off with a request header.

Yes. Amux AI natively implements the Anthropic Messages and OpenAI protocols, and setup guides cover Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, Cline, Cherry Studio and more — replace the endpoint and key as described.

Yes. Both work with the OpenAI SDK, so you can split traffic by model or use case — for example, send mainstream models through Amux AI for lower prices and keep workloads that need EU data residency on Requesty.

Get started

Minutes from now,
your first request is live.

  1. 1Create an account
  2. 2Create an API key
  3. 3Swap the base_url and call
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