How XRoute Works

1. Authenticate

• OAuth for MCP & CLI (recommended for agents): Connect your coding agent to https://mcp.xroute.ai/mcp and sign in through your browser. No API key needs to be copied into config files.
• Bearer API Key (for applications & SDKs): Generate an API key in the XRoute Console and pass it in the Authorization: Bearer $XROUTE_API_KEY header.
• Machine Payments (MPP): Selected read-only data endpoints support HTTP 402 machine payments without requiring an account or API key.

2. Call an endpoint

curl https://api.xroute.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $XROUTE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "deepseek/deepseek-r1",
    "messages": [
      {"role": "user", "content": "Explain how edge routing reduces TTFT."}
    ]
  }'

3. Pay per use

• Models: Billed per input and output token at transparent, vendor-beating rates.
• Data APIs: Billed per request or per returned record.
• Free quotes: Query /v1/models or run MCP batch_quote / CLI xroute quote --json at zero cost before executing paid calls.

What XRoute handles vs. what you own

When to use XRoute

• Building AI agents: Give Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or custom agents instant access to search, finance, social data, and 60+ LLMs.
• Production LLM apps: Eliminate single-vendor downtime with multi-cluster automatic failover and low-latency edge routing.
• Multi-modal workflows: Combine text reasoning (deepseek/deepseek-r1, anthropic/claude-sonnet-4) with video generation (Byteplus/dreamina-seedance-2-5) under one billing balance.

Next steps