This site links to AgentRouter with a referral link, and we earn a reward when someone registers through it. That is exactly why we hold it to a higher standard than the posts that just shout 'free credits': everything below is either verified against a source we name, or explicitly marked as something we could not verify.
| Claim | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Referrers earn $150 per person who registers through their invite link | Verified — owner console, checked 2026-08-20 | agentrouter.org/console (invite summary) |
| New registrants receive a $50.00 reward | Verified — same console view | agentrouter.org/console |
| Rewards are paid as account balance, not withdrawable cash | Verified — the console describes transferring reward amounts into your account balance via a transfer function | agentrouter.org/console |
| Registration accepts an aff= referral parameter | Verified — present in AgentRouter's own docs | docs.agentrouter.org |
| Setup is documented for ~15 tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cline, Aider, OpenCode, Hermes, Cursor and more) | Verified — we followed these docs while building this site's guides | docs.agentrouter.org |
| Two API surfaces exist: an Anthropic-style one and an OpenAI-style /v1 one, and mixing them causes errors | Verified — documented and reproduced during testing | docs.agentrouter.org + our own setup tests |
The 'balance, not cash' detail matters and most referral posts omit it: rewards and promotional credits spend inside AgentRouter against model usage. If your expectation was a payout to your bank, adjust it now — that is not what the product does, and anyone telling you otherwise is overselling.
Developer communities are not uniformly positive about AgentRouter. A Reddit thread asking whether anyone uses it as a model provider includes replies calling it 'highly probably a scam' and saying promotional credits could not actually be spent. We cannot verify those individual experiences — we do not have access to other people's accounts — and we are not going to dismiss them either, because they follow a pattern that is common to this whole category of product.
The pattern: services in this space run promotional-credit events, the terms of those events change between announcement and redemption, and users who arrive during a promo frequently discover the credits are narrower than the headline. Sometimes that is bad faith. Sometimes it is a startup recalibrating. From the outside they look identical.
There is also a referral-economy distortion worth naming: people who post AgentRouter links are usually earning from signups, so positive posts are structurally less trustworthy than negative ones. That includes us. It is why this page leads with sources instead of adjectives.
We link to AgentRouter for one reason: the problem this site solves — pointing coding agents at a working endpoint — needs a concrete endpoint to demonstrate on, and AgentRouter has three properties that make it useful for that job. It speaks both the Anthropic-style and OpenAI-style surfaces correctly. Its per-tool setup docs are real and mostly accurate (we tested them while writing our guides). And it is one of the few gateways whose pricing page lists actual per-model token prices instead of only bundle language.
That is a recommendation for a specific job — a configurable, documented endpoint for your coding agent — not an endorsement of every marketing claim anyone has ever attached to the name. If you register through our links we earn $150; that is disclosed on every page here, and it does not change a single configuration step in our guides. The guides work with any endpoint; AgentRouter is just the one we can document end-to-end.
If you are deciding: read our custom-endpoint guide first, set the endpoint up with any account, and only spend time on promotional credits after the setup itself works. The setup is the part that saves you hours; the credits are the part everyone argues about.
Every guide on this site was tested against AgentRouter's documented setup: Anthropic-style and OpenAI-style surfaces, per-model pricing, config for 15 tools. If you register through this link we earn a referral reward at no cost to you — and the guides work the same either way.
See the documented setup →Referral link — we may earn a reward if you sign up, at no extra cost to you. This is the same advice we would give with no link at all. Check their current pricing and model list on their own site; we deliberately do not restate numbers that change.