OpenRouter alternative

Short answer: Obscurify.ai is an OpenAI-compatible API at https://obscurify.ai/v1 with 200+ models, for people who want one API for many models without signing up with an email or paying with a card. The account is a random 16-digit number, you can pay in Monero, Bitcoin or Lightning, and models with the ZDR tag only use zero-data-retention routes. If you need the biggest catalogue, your own provider keys or control over which provider serves each request, OpenRouter is the better fit.

OpenRouter’s data handling is better than most: by its own docs it doesn’t store your prompts unless you opt in, and a “ZDR only” setting keeps requests on endpoints that don’t retain them. It does need an email to sign up, though, and it takes cards, AliPay or USDC. The OpenRouter facts on this page come from its FAQ, pricing page, privacy policy, terms and data-collection docs as published on November 11, 2026.

What’s different

The account

OpenRouter’s terms say you register with an email address or other contact details through its sign-in provider. Its privacy policy lists names, contact details and IP addresses among the identifiers it collects. Here an account is a random 16-digit number, like a Mullvad VPN account, with no email, phone or password. We keep only a keyed hash of the number. API keys are made from the account, never stored, and you can fetch them again with the number.

Paying

OpenRouter’s FAQ and pricing page list credit and debit cards, AliPay and USDC. Here you can pay with Monero, on-chain Bitcoin or Lightning through our own BTCPay server, or with a card through Stripe. By default a payment tops up your account, so we know which account it funded. Tick “Blind voucher” before paying and the payment becomes blind-signed vouchers instead, and then we can’t tell which payment funded which account (keep the page open until they’re collected). Either way, the payment itself is still visible to Stripe or on the blockchain, and one unusual amount added all at once could be matched by amount and time.

Tracking on the website

OpenRouter’s privacy policy says it uses Google Analytics, PostHog (which can record sessions) and cookies and pixels for interest-based ads. No page here loads a third-party script, apart from Stripe’s, which loads only once you start a card payment. Guests get no cookies at all.

Zero data retention per model

On OpenRouter, ZDR is a setting. When you don’t enforce it, your requests can go to “Safety Retention” endpoints, where OpenRouter or the provider may keep prompts and responses to prevent abuse. Here there is no setting: a model with the ZDR tag only uses zero-data-retention routes and never falls back to one that might keep data. About half the models have the tag. Claude and most GPT models don’t, and for those the provider’s own policy applies. Either way, our server doesn’t store prompts or replies. Those routes rest on the providers’ published policies; we have no signed agreements with them. The model provider still reads the prompt, but we scramble your identity first, so it can’t tell who sent it.

Tor

The whole site, the API included, works over our onion address. OpenRouter’s docs don’t mention one.

Uncensored and enclave models

About 20 uncensored models run on the Pro plan, and we tested every one on 12 prompts that mainstream assistants often decline. Open models such as GLM, Kimi and DeepSeek also run inside hardware enclaves (TEEs). With those, Encrypted mode encrypts the chat on your device so only the enclave can read it, and our open-source verifier checks the enclave’s signed receipt for every reply (how it works).

Chat and tools on the same balance

In the web chat, models can search the web, run code in a sandbox inside your browser and call paid tools, billed per call to the same balance. The API also speaks Anthropic’s Messages format at /v1/messages, so Claude Code runs on it.

Side by side

Where OpenRouter is the better pick

• OpenRouter lists 600+ models from 80+ providers. Here it’s 200+, and about half of them have the ZDR tag.
• On OpenRouter you can pin a provider, sort by price or speed, fall back between providers and bring your own provider keys. Here you pick a model and we choose the route.
• SSO, EU in-region routing and contractual SLAs come with OpenRouter’s Business and Enterprise plans. None of that exists here.
• OpenRouter has no plan to buy for any model. Frontier models here need the Casual plan, and uncensored ones need Pro. Pay as you go covers the rest.

Switching your code

Any OpenAI client works. Change the base URL and the key, and take model ids from /v1/models:

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(base_url="https://obscurify.ai/v1", api_key="sk-obs1_...")
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="tee/glm-5.3-flash",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)

The OpenAI client tutorial shows how to create the account number and the key with two requests. Apps that take a custom OpenAI-compatible endpoint work the same way: there are tested setups for Cline, OpenCode, SillyTavern and agents like OpenClaw and Hermes.

New accounts get $1 of starter credit, with the Pro models (uncensored ones included) for their first 7 days, while this month’s promo budget lasts.

OpenRouter alternative questions

Is there an OpenRouter alternative with no email?

Yes. On Obscurify.ai an account is a random 16-digit number, with no email, phone or password. The web chat also has a guest mode that needs no account at all, but the API needs an account with a balance.

Does OpenRouter accept Monero or Bitcoin?

No. Its FAQ, checked on November 11, 2026, lists credit cards, AliPay and USDC. Obscurify.ai takes Monero, on-chain Bitcoin and Lightning, as well as cards.

Does OpenRouter log my prompts?

Its data-collection page says it doesn’t store prompts or responses unless you opt in to logging, or to letting OpenRouter use them in exchange for a 1% discount. It does store metadata for each request, such as token counts and latency, and it screens requests for CSAM and may keep flagged content for review. Obscurify.ai doesn’t store prompts either; it keeps billing records (account, model, token counts, cost and time).

Can I reuse my OpenRouter code?

If it uses an OpenAI SDK, yes: change the base URL to https://obscurify.ai/v1, use an Obscurify.ai key and pick model ids from /v1/models. OpenRouter-only options, such as its provider routing settings and model variants, aren’t supported here.

Is it really anonymous?

Partly. The model provider can’t tell who sent a prompt, but it reads the prompt, so leave out your name and anything else that points to you. We keep IP addresses for up to 30 days to stop abuse, and card payments are visible to Stripe. Tor and Monero together leave the least behind.

Does Obscurify.ai have uncensored models on the API?

Yes, about 20, on the Pro plan ($45 a month with $35 of usage included). The uncensored API page has our refusal test for each one.

Last updated 2026-11-13. Plan prices and model lists on this page are read live from the site.