Donate a key to unblock the Pool of free tokens

The Pool is a set of provider keys that AnyRouter users donate. When you call a model a donated key can serve, AnyRouter can send the request through that key. Free models served this way cost you $0.

Every donated key adds capacity. More keys mean more free tokens for everyone who uses the Pool.

Not sure which key to give? Donate keys lists good candidates, and the Pool page shows which providers it takes.

• The Go plan for free, for as long as at least one donated key stays active. A paused key does not count.
• Credits for every request your key serves: 5% of its catalog cost, or 8% on Pro and above. Each key earns at most $1 per UTC day.
• Credits wait in a pending balance. Claim them on the BYOK page, or turn on auto-claim for a daily sweep.

To use the Pool for chat models, you need a paid plan (Go or above) or one active donated key. A donated key covers both. Decision models are open to every signed-in user.

You do not pick the Pool. AnyRouter adds donated keys to the route for models they can serve. For a free model the Pool goes first. For a paid model your own key goes first, then the Pool.

AnyRouter picks the least recently used key and never sends your request to your own key.

Donors see totals only: requests, tokens and credits earned. They never see prompts, answers or who sent them.

• Nothing joins the Pool on its own. Donating needs a one-time consent, and AnyRouter tests the key first.
• Read your provider's terms before you donate. AnyRouter checks that it can route to the provider, not that the provider allows sharing.
• The key pauses after three auth failures, an out-of-credit reply, a provider key limit, or the $1 daily cap. A 429 or a 5xx only pauses that one model on that key, and AnyRouter retries it after a backoff.
• Turn donation off at any time and the key leaves the Pool.
• The Pool does not lift rate limits. Callers keep the limits of their own plan.

1. Open the Pool page and add a key, or pick a key you already added on the BYOK page.
2. Accept the one-time consent.
3. AnyRouter tests the key. When the test passes, the key serves the Pool and starts to earn.

See Donate keys for which keys help the Pool most.