// startup · series a

Protect your margin on every user.

You sell an agentic product on a subscription, usage, or outcome price. Frontier-model bills eat the margin on your heaviest users first. BitRouter optimizes your production loop so cost-per-user drops — and bundles open-weight model credits to stretch your runway while you grow.

See the credits program

// the margin problem

Your revenue per user is capped. Your token cost isn’t.

A plan price is fixed, but token cost scales with how hard each user leans on the agent. Run everything on a frontier model and your power users — the ones you most want to keep — are the ones who go cost-negative. Optimizing the loop is the difference between growth that funds itself and growth that burns.

Fig. — unit economics · per active user / mo

revenue / user (plan)$20.00

model cost — frontier only$14.20 ✗ 71% of revenue

model cost — BitRouter routed$3.90 ✓ routed + OSS

gross margin — before$5.80

gross margin — after$16.10

// oss credits · apply

Open-weight credits to extend your runway.

Our startup program bundles credits toward open-weight models from six labs — GLM, Kimi, MiniMax, DeepSeek, StepFun, and MiMo — so you can run frontier-class coding and agentic workloads at a fraction of the per-token cost. Route your loop through them and stretch every dollar of runway. Apply to qualify.

glm-5.2open-weight

Zhipu · Z.ai

kimi-k2.7-codeopen-weight

Moonshot AI

minimax-m3open-weight

MiniMax

deepseek-v4-proopen-weight

DeepSeek

stepfun-3.7-flashopen-weight

StepFun

mimo-v2.5-proopen-weight

Xiaomi · MiMo

Credits are a BitRouter program — you apply once, through us, and spend them across providers from one API. Open-weight status and licenses per each lab’s model card.

// how we cut it

Lower cost per user, same product.

01Route down

Every call goes to the cheapest model that clears your quality bar — frontier only where it earns its price. Your heaviest users stop running on your most expensive model.

02Stop re-paying

Loops re-send their whole context every turn. We cache and dedupe it, and fail over mid-run — so a rate-limit at step 40 never makes you re-pay for the first 39.

03Price with confidence

Cost per user, per feature, per plan — measured, not guessed. Now you know which users are underwater and can price so every seat earns its keep.

// self-serve vs startup

What the startup program adds.

Everything in self-serve, plus the OSS models credits, per-user cost analytics, and founder onboarding to get your production loop optimized fast.

Feature	Self-serve	Startup
Pricing	0% markup · subscription	0% markup + credits
●OSS models credits	—	Apply
●Cost-per-user analytics	—	✓
Quality-floor routing	✓	✓
Mid-run failover	✓	✓
Volume discounts as you grow	—	✓
Founder onboarding	—	✓
Private by default	✓	✓
Self-host / your VPC	✓	✓
Support	Community	Founders

// apply

Turn your heaviest users into your best margin.

Bring us your loop and your pricing. We’ll show you cost-per-user today, where it’s leaking, and size a credit bundle to your workload — on a call with the founders.

Questions from founders.

If yours isn’t here, put it to us on the call.

Early-stage startups running production agentic loops — think around Series A, selling a subscription, usage-, or outcome-based product. Apply on a founder call and we'll size a credit bundle to your loop.

No. You keep a quality floor, and frontier models stay in the mix for the calls that need them. We only route down where a cheaper open-weight model clears your bar — so cost drops without your users noticing.

Every route is gated by a quality bar you define. Open-weight models from labs like GLM, DeepSeek, and MiniMax now land close to frontier models on public coding and agentic benchmarks, so on many calls the cheaper model is genuinely good enough — and when it isn't, we fall back.

The program is BitRouter's: we bundle credits toward those open-weight models so you can route your loop through them and stretch runway. You apply once, through us, and use them across providers from one API.