EasyRouter Review: Pricing & Comparison

Fu Sheng built an AI API relay platform

Cheetah Mobile CEO Fu Sheng made an interesting product choice amid the AI wave: EasyRouter, an AI API relay platform for developers.

While most relay platforms are run by anonymous teams or small startups, EasyRouter has a reassuring backing — it’s affiliated with Cheetah Mobile, with a real, verifiable company and founder behind it. That’s a meaningful signal against the practical worry of “will this platform vanish with my money after I top up.”

EasyRouter’s (easyrouter.io) positioning is clear: 15% off storewide, one-stop access to 40+ mainstream AI providers.

Discount logic and real-world savings

EasyRouter’s pricing is a discount off official pricing, not adjusted from some “ultra-low baseline”:

• 15% off storewide: Claude, GPT, Gemini, and all other mainstream models are billed at 85% of official pricing
• DeepSeek V4 Pro up to 75% off: DeepSeek’s already-cheap official price gets discounted down to as little as 25% of face value, well suited to heavy DeepSeek usage
• Four plan tiers: $20 / $50 / $200 / $1500 — choose your top-up scale as needed

For example: if you spend about $100/month on the Claude API at official pricing, using Claude through EasyRouter costs only $85 — a 15% saving. Scenarios using DeepSeek V4 Pro see even bigger savings.

40+ providers: the value of unified account management

What’s it like to connect to more than 40 mainstream AI providers with a single account?

• A single API key: no need to hold separate accounts with Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek, Mistral, and others at the same time
• Unified top-up: one top-up can be freely allocated across different models, so you never run into “account A has balance but model B can’t draw from it”
• Unified monitoring: view usage and cost for every API call from a single dashboard

For developers who need to A/B test different models in their product, or dynamically switch models by task type (Flash for quick tasks, Pro for complex reasoning), this kind of unified management is worth more than the savings from any single discount.

How to connect

EasyRouter is compatible with the OpenAI SDK, so switching costs are close to zero:

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key="your EasyRouter API key",
    base_url="https://api.easyrouter.io/v1"  # check the official site for the actual endpoint
)

# Claude Fable 5
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="claude-fable-5-20260702",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)

# DeepSeek V4 Pro (up to 75% off)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="deepseek-v4-pro",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Analyze this code"}]
)

Positioning versus other platforms

Platform	Core value
EasyRouter	Well-known team, storewide discount, one-stop access to 40+ providers
Laozhang API	Established reputation, stable at official pricing
SBGPT	Ultra-low ¥0.4-0.6/USD exchange rate, price-first
YKH.AI	Minimalist interface, ultra-low Lite-tier pricing

EasyRouter’s distinct advantages are brand credibility and broad provider coverage — well suited to developer teams who don’t want to manage multiple accounts and are also somewhat price-sensitive.

Information verified 2026-08-11. Check the easyrouter.io site for current discount and plan details; the official site states it no longer serves mainland-China customers and supports refunds.

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