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Donate & earn

Share a key you're not using.
Earn credits when it helps someone else.

NVIDIA, OpenRouter, Groq and others hand out free API keys — real models, tiny rate limits. Donate an idle key. When one 429s, another donated key takes the call. You earn 5–8% back, and one working key makes Go free — no card, ever.

Your key joins the pool, which routes other members' requests through it — never your own. When a donated key is rate-limited, the pool tries the next one. Each served request returns 5% on Go, 8% on Pro/Max to your balance.

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The pool

One free key hits the wall. A pool of them does not.

NVIDIA, OpenRouter, Groq and others give you a key so you can call their models — then they rate-limit that key. The shared pool is leftover quota from many donated keys, with failover when one 429s.

Free keys, hard RPM

NVIDIA NIM, OpenRouter, Groq, and similar programs give you a real key for their models. The catch is per-key rate limits — a handful of calls per minute, then HTTP 429.

One key hits the wall

A single free-tier key is fine for a demo and useless for an agent loop. When that key 429s, your session stalls even though other people still have unused quota on the same provider.

The pool unblocks it

Donated keys join one shared pool. When a key is rate-limited, AnyRouter defers it and tries another donor's key for the same provider. Combined spare RPM is what you actually use — not one vendor's tiny cap.

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The exchange

What you're actually agreeing to

No hidden mechanics — this is the whole trade, stated plainly.

What you give

  • One BYOK key you've already added, for any of the pool's eligible providers.
  • Requests the pool serves through it count against your own provider account's usage and billing.
  • You pick the key and the moment you stop — nothing is enrolled automatically.

What you get

  • 5% back on Go or no plan, 8% on Pro/Max — set by your plan at the moment each request lands.
  • One active donated key makes the Go plan free, for as long as that key stays active — no card, ever.
  • Credits spend on any pay-as-you-go request, including models you hold no key for.

Your protections

  • Encrypted at rest; decrypted only in memory to place the call, never logged or returned.
  • Self-route guard: your own requests never draw from your own donated key.
  • 3 straight rate-limit errors or repeated failures auto-pause the key until it's healthy again.
  • Public and donor views show aggregate counters only — never prompt content or requester identity.

How to stop

  • Toggle 'Donate to pool' off, or withdraw the key — it leaves the pool immediately, no pending requests.
  • Withdrawing your last active key ends the free Go plan on the next sync and claws back this month's $4 credit; a plan you paid for is never touched.
  • Re-donating later picks the same key back up, consent and history intact — and restores the unspent remainder of this month's credit ($4 minus what you already used).
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The math

Reward rate, limits, and live numbers

Go plan · no plan

5%

of notional token cost back, e.g. $1.00 served → $0.05 credited.

Pro · Max

8%

of notional token cost back, e.g. $1.00 served → $0.08 credited.

Rewards are capped at $1 per key per UTC day (a key that hits the cap pauses until the next day) and computed live from your plan at the moment each request lands — an upgrade or downgrade takes effect on your very next served request. Free-listed ($0 notional cost) requests still count toward your stats but earn nothing.

84Routing upstreams
21Donors live
31Keys donating
51Eligible providers
snapshot, not live-updating
+39 more eligible
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Use cases

Who donates — and why

Real patterns: leftover NVIDIA / OpenRouter / Groq RPM, idle coding plans, and teams pooling agent traffic.

Idle free-tier keys

NVIDIA, OpenRouter, Groq: you got a free key, then hit RPM. Donate the leftover. The pool fails over to the next donated key instead of stalling, and you earn when others use your unused quota.

Coding-plan leftovers

A Z.AI or similar flat-rate coding plan sits idle after hours. Pool it overnight — extra tokens cost you nothing at the margin, and you bank the reward.

Agent & CI workloads

Teams running Claude Code, Codex, or CI agents through AnyRouter. Donors earn on the billed traffic while free-tier users get a reliable shared pool.

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Donate

Donate a key

Click a key to move it into the pool. Withdraw it again any time.

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Live pools

Available pools

Live capacity by provider. Each <provider>-pool is fed by donated keys. Share one key and every pool opens up for your own requests.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Ready to earn?

Add a BYOK key, then share it with the pool. Your own requests never draw from your own key, and you earn 5–8% on everything the pool routes through it.