AI is Now
Decentralized.

Pay-per-request AI APIs with Bitcoin micropayments. OpenAI-compatible, privacy-preserving, no account required.

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Routstr network

Live nodes, relays, and request flow

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How It Works

01

Get a Cashu token

Bring your own Cashu eCash token. No accounts, emails, or sign-ups required. Complete privacy from the start.

02

Use any OpenAI-compatible client

Point your existing OpenAI SDK or application at any Routstr provider. Just use your Cashu token as the API key.

03

Pay per request

Cost is deducted in real-time based on actual token usage with live BTC/USD conversion routing.

Routstr Products

01Developer

$bun install -g routstrd

$routstrd onboard

Routstr Daemon

A local daemon for uncensorable access to AI. Discovers nodes on Nostr, auto-routes to the cheapest provider for your model, and pays per request over Lightning.

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02Teams & Individuals

$routstrd remote <instance>

$routstrd npubs register

Hosted Routstr Daemon

Serve routstrd to your whole team — or just yourself — from a hosted instance. Bearer-token auth proxy, per-member Nostr keys, and usage tracking included.

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03Consumer

Ask anything...

Routstr Chat

A beautifully designed chat interface for interacting with any AI model on the network. Seamlessly pay per request with Bitcoin Lightning.

Try Routstr Chat

Browse Models

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Community

What people are saying

Join the growing community embracing privacy-first AI access

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jack@jack

When you run your own routstr AI proxy on your own private vps, self host your own AI otrta chat client and send cashu from your own client to your own proxy to privately query AI over tor.

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This is incredible. AI chat pay per use. No accounts but instant and anonymous Bitcoin micro payments with Cashu.

Try it with a tiny amount and see for yourself!

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very tru. eventually will find out routstr make all other services out there full of tracking and big noses... redundant

d7r@noD7R

Yeah, sex is great, but have you ever tried inserting an ecash token instead of an API key and seeing it work? @routstr

Avi Burraavi@nip21.media

This could be the cheapest way to try a new LLM model via @roustrai + @CashuBTC + Grok CLI.

1. Topup via Bitcoin Lightning to chat.routstr.com (no fees, no login, can be less than $1)
2. Generate API key (Settings > API Key)
3. Install Grok CLI and edit config nano ~/.grok/user-settings.json

{
  "apiKey": "sk-xxx",
  "baseURL": "api.routstr.com/v1",
  "defaultModel": "x-ai/grok-code-fast-1",
  "models": [
    "x-ai/grok-code-fast-1"
  ]
}

The Grok CLI is still buggy, but the latency is not that bad.

Kim Hudaya@huedaya

This could be the cheapest way to try a new LLM model via @roustrai + @CashuBTC + Grok CLI.

1. Topup via Bitcoin Lightning to chat.routstr.com (no fees, no login, can be less than $1)
2. Generate API key (Settings > API Key)
3. Install Grok CLI and edit config nano ~/.grok/user-settings.json

{
  "apiKey": "sk-xxx",
  "baseURL": "api.routstr.com/v1",
  "defaultModel": "x-ai/grok-code-fast-1",
  "models": [
    "x-ai/grok-code-fast-1"
  ]
}

The Grok CLI is still buggy, but the latency is not that bad.

Kim Hudaya@huedaya

With routstr, you can pay for AI services with Bitcoin using Cashu ecash.

✅ No signups
✅ No credit cards
✅ No KYC

Want to know how it works? Check out our latest blog post blow!

Cashu@CashuBTC

A Decentralised LLM Routing Marketplace

Permissionless, censorship-resistant AI routing powered by Nostr and Cashu
routstr.com

Pavol Lupták@wilderko

🧵 @routstrai – AI Power Without the Hassle

Freedom to Use AI, Your Way!

1/ Introduction
Hey everyone! Routstr is a cool new platform that makes using AI super easy and private. It's built on Nostr and Bitcoin, so you can access AI models without big companies watching you.

Think of it as a marketplace where anyone can use or share AI tools securely.

Vagabond Ⓜ️Ⓜ️ T $MMT@Zhuaffa

A Decentralised LLM Routing Marketplace
routstr.com

Routstr brings the convenience of the OpenRouter experience to the permissionless, censorship-resistant world of Nostr and Bitcoin

Hamish MacEwan@HamishMacEwan

My friends no longer understand what the hell I am talking about.

"I used zaps from nostr to buy a kyc free vps to run a routstr proxy that allows users to send me bitcoin using cashu to access my OpenAI api keys for private pay per query with llm models. It is interoperable with goose and dork which can be used with MKStack for one shot nostr vibe coding clients."