# plaingateway

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/plaingateway/  
**Website:** https://plaingateway.com  
**APIs profiled:** 1

plaingateway is a free OpenRouter alternative offering the same API as OpenRouter at the provider's list price, with 0% platform fee and no subscription. Users can earn up to 20% bonus credit when adding money. The service supports any OpenAI-compatible base URL and model IDs, targeting developers seeking cost-effective LLM access.

## Kin Score — 42.1 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-11-13 under rubric 0.28.0.

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 62.5 |
| Contract Quality | 49.0 |
| Contract Governance | 22.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 14.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 40.5 |
| Access Clarity | 53.2 |

Regulatory layer — **Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform)**: 17.3 (matched via fallback).

## Agent readiness — 18.0 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | derived |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |
| Pagination Ratio | na |
| Operation Distinctiveness | na |
| MCP Tool Quality | na |

## Access

Free · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **plaingateway Chat Completions API** — The Chat Completions API from plaingateway — 1 operation(s) for chat completions.

## Agentic access (1)

- **plaingateway Agentic Access** — 1 operation · 1 acting

## Security (2)

- **plaingateway Authentication** — 2 schemes
- **plaingateway Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **plaingateway Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Company, LLM, API Gateway, OpenRouter-Alternative, Free

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/plaingateway/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.