Introduction

What is Router9?

Router9 is a subscription that puts you in front of every leading model — GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, and the best image and video models — instead of locking you into one. Use them right in Studio, Router9's workbench for creating images and video, or point your own agents and coding CLIs at the same models through one OpenAI-compatible API.

Same plan, same models, two ways in.

Studio

Studio is where you create: generate and edit images and video, keep every iteration of a project in one place, switch models mid-project without starting over, and browse Explore for inspiration from what others have made. Anyone can browse; generating asks you to sign in.

See Using Studio to get started.

API & Harnesses

The same subscription and the same models work headless. Router9 exposes an OpenAI-compatible endpoint with per-key budgets, rate limits, and audit logs — point Hermes, OpenClaw, Claude Code, or any OpenAI-compatible agent at it, and swap what your pipeline runs on without touching your code.

# Set your environment variables
export OPENAI_BASE_URL=https://api.router9.com/v1
export OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-r9k-your-key-here

# Make a request
curl $OPENAI_BASE_URL/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "anthropic/claude-opus-5",
    "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Hello!" }]
  }'

See the Quick Start guide for step-by-step setup instructions.

Documentation Overview

Studio

• Using Studio — Images, Video, projects, Explore, and your work

For Developers

• Quick Start — Get up and running in under 5 minutes
• Install via MCP — Connect Router9 as an MCP server
• Integrations — Setup guides for Hermes, OpenClaw, Claude Code, and more

Token Plan

• Plan Management — Create and manage your token plan
• Billing & Plans — Pricing tiers, credit quotas, and subscription management
• Audit Logs — Track and export request history
• Security — Sessions, account security, and best practices

API Reference

• Authentication — API key management and security
• Chat Completions — OpenAI-compatible chat API
• Models — Available models and routing
• Rate Limiting — Request quotas and 429 handling
• Errors — Error codes and response format

Tools

• Audio — Speech-to-text and text-to-speech
• Image — Image description, generation, and editing (API)
• Tool Usage & Credits — How Skills consume credits