# OptimAI launches Router, linking open model users with idle computers

> Original title: Introducing OptimAI Router 🌐

- Source: Trial: high-attention AI launches and demos
- Published: 2026-10-27T09:13:22.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/s0jcvwuyu5dll4ju0gblf8jtw
- Original: https://x.com/OptimaiNetwork/status/2115008944720454036

## Summary

OptimAI launches Router, an OpenAI-style chat completions API that lets builders choose a model that Router never swaps, with API keys that carry monthly caps and per-request charge limits. Providers can serve open models from their own computers through OptimAI Core Node, set their own prices, and earn credits for each completed request. MCP and x402 pay-as-you-go for individual requests are listed as coming soon.

## Post

Introducing OptimAI Router 🌐

Open models have never been better. Using them is another story: running one yourself means hardware and upkeep, and renting one means someone else's prices and rules. Meanwhile, millions of capable computers sit idle every night.

Router connects those two sides.

🛠 For builders
• One OpenAI-style chat completions API, with streaming
• You choose the model, and Router never swaps it
• Try requests in the Playground before you write code
• API keys with monthly caps, per-key limits and a max charge per request
• Pay with OptimAI Credits and top up with x402

💻 For providers
Set up in OptimAI Core Node in four steps: Computer → Model → Pricing → Serving.
Earn credits for every completed request and collect Points while you serve. You set your price, and you start and stop serving whenever you like.

Coming soon: MCP and x402 pay-as-you-go for individual requests.

One network, two ways in.

👉 https://router.optimai.network

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