Comparison
BlockRun vs Ramp Router
Ramp bought router.com and shipped a genuinely good LLM router: one endpoint, free routing through 2026, list-price tokens. If you are a US team that wants AI spend inside a corporate finance stack, use it. BlockRun is built for the other case — software that pays for itself.
Why this page exists
A spend-management company building a model router says the same thing a payments company circling OpenRouter says: routing and payment belong together. That has been BlockRun's architecture from day one — settlement is part of the request, not a billing system beside it. The difference is whose money moves: Ramp routes a company's card spend; BlockRun gives the agent itself a wallet.
| BlockRun | Ramp Router | |
|---|---|---|
| Billing | Pay per call in USDC — every request settles on-chain as it happens | List price for tokens; routing free through 2026, first $26 in credits included |
| Signup | None — wallet in, prompt out; no email, no account, no KYC | Email sign-in link; no Ramp card or company account required |
| Geography | Global — anyone with a wallet | US individuals and teams; more countries "coming soon" |
| Catalog | 95 models — chat plus image, video, music and voice | Latest OpenAI and Anthropic models plus select open-source, incl. Kimi |
| Beyond models | Web search, prediction markets, crypto data, multi-chain RPC, sandboxes, phone calls — one wallet pays for all of it | Model routing only |
| API shape | OpenAI-compatible; native Anthropic and Gemini passthrough for allowlisted callers | OpenAI and Anthropic compatible; one-line base-URL change |
| Routing | You pick the model; ClawRouter (open source) routes to the cheapest capable one if you want that | Router Strategies route eligible requests to a cheaper tier when quality allows |
| Receipts | On-chain — every call independently verifiable on Basescan / Solscan | Dashboard usage tracking per model, provider, cost |
| Free tier | 5 models free — no card, no signup, no wallet | $26 in model credits at signup; routing free through 2026 |
| Data handling | No training, no retention beyond the request | Stores inputs/outputs to improve the service (can be turned off); ZDR options on select US-hosted models |
When to use which
Use Ramp Router if you are a US developer or team, your AI spend should live next to your corporate cards, and free routing at list price through 2026 is the deal you want. It is a strong product from a serious company.
Use BlockRun if the thing making the calls is an agent: it needs to pay per request from its own wallet, from anywhere in the world, across models and the data, search, markets and compute around them — with a receipt on-chain for every call and no human signing up for anything.