Save by switching
from OpenRouter.
OpenRouter charges a fee every time you top up your balance. SayGM routes to the same frontier models at or below the price the model maker charges, sealed inside a Trusted Execution Environment. Yours stays yours.
At or below list price,
by design.
SayGM prices every model at or below the model maker’s published list price, at any volume and from your first request. It is how the supply works: independent operators compete to serve each request, and that competition sets the rate.
Funding your balance costs the amount you fund it with. What the table says is what you are billed.
“Where does this data go?” needs a better answer than a privacy policy.
If you route health records, legal documents or source code through an API, a privacy policy is a promise about what a company will choose to do. SayGM’s gateway runs inside an Intel TDX trusted execution environment, and the attestation quote proving it is independently verifiable — so the answer to a security review is something your team checks for itself. The full argument is in hardware attestation vs a privacy policy.
The provider serving the model still sees your prompt in plaintext, exactly as it would if you called it directly. The SayGM gateway in between runs sealed, so your prompt stays out of reach of its operators and the host machine.
Verifiable by anyone
Remote attestation lets you confirm for yourself exactly what code the gateway is running.Sealed from the routing layer too
Most privacy claims stop at the model. This one covers the gateway itself.Built for the audit trail
Pairs with signed logs of which model handled what, for teams that need to show their work.What you could save.
Pick a model, set your monthly volume, see the delta.Estimate using a recently reported price.
Most input tokens in real traffic are cache reads, and both gateways price them well below a fresh one — so the share matters more to the bill than the totals do. The default is what SayGM measures across its own traffic.
Price per million tokens.
USD per 1M tokens, uncached input / output. Reported SayGM rates were reported as of 56 minutes ago.OpenRouter’s is the rate their own public model API publishes, plus the 5.5% credit fee, as of 3 hours ago.SayGM vs. OpenRouter, line by line.
Common questions about switching.
Is OpenRouter reliable?
We have not measured it, and a competitor is the wrong source for that number — check their status page and judge for yourself. What we would say is that a second route to the same models is worth having whichever gateway you make primary, and plenty of teams run both and fail over between them.
Is OpenRouter worth it?
For catalogue breadth, yes. It is a credible product carrying several hundred models, far more than SayGM. If your requirement is a gateway whose operator is locked out of your prompts by hardware, that is a different guarantee, and it is the one SayGM is built around. Weighing up more than these two? Our roundup of OpenRouter alternatives compares five of them on price and privacy.
Is OpenRouter free?
They publish a free tier alongside paid usage, and the current terms are in their own docs. Their paid model, as they document it, passes each provider’s per-token rate through with no markup on inference and charges a fee when you buy credits — 5.5% (minimum $0.80) by card, 5% by crypto at the time of writing. SayGM is pay-as-you-go from a prepaid balance, every top-up is credited in full, and every model is priced at or below the model maker’s own list price.
Does OpenRouter have rate limits?
Yes — they vary by tier, the free tier most of all, as set out in their own docs. SayGM’s limits are set per key and lifted on request.
Does OpenRouter save my chats?
Not by default — logging is opt-in, and their published policy on it is reasonable. The difference is where the guarantee lives: SayGM’s gateway runs inside an Intel TDX enclave, so the hardware seals your prompt from the people operating it, on every request, whatever anyone configures.
How much cheaper is SayGM?
Across the models this page compares, 28% for the middle one, counting OpenRouter’s credit-purchase fee. It varies by model, and the calculator above prices your exact volumes. Some models in SayGM’s wider catalogue cost more than they do on OpenRouter — where our own list price sits above theirs, the provider discount does not always close the gap.
Ready to switch?
Not sure OpenRouter is the one to leave? Compare the other OpenRouter alternatives.