Get started with RouteShift
Sign up for RouteShift, add a provider, mint a virtual key, and proxy your first request — ship a routed LLM call against any model in under ten minutes.
Create your workspace
Sign up at app.routeshift.io. You'll need an admin email — a personal email is fine for solo accounts.
Add a provider key
Open Settings → Providers and paste in at least one upstream key (OpenAI, Anthropic, or any of the supported providers). RouteShift encrypts the key at rest with PROVIDER_KEY_SECRET and never returns the plaintext after save.
Mint a virtual key
Open Keys → Create key. Optionally set:
- Allowed models — restrict which models this key can call.
- Expires at — auto-revoke on a calendar date.
- RPM / TPM — per-key requests- and tokens-per-minute caps.
- Monthly budget — hard cap with optional soft-alert threshold.
- Metadata — arbitrary
key=valuetags for cost attribution.
The dialog returns a one-time sk-proxy-… token. Copy it immediately — RouteShift hashes it on save and cannot show it again.
Proxy your first request
RouteShift is OpenAI-compatible. Any client that takes a base URL works — swap https://api.openai.com for https://api.routeshift.io and use your sk-proxy-… key:
curl https://api.routeshift.io/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer sk-proxy-…" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "gpt-4o-mini",
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "hello"}]
}'Review the request log
Open Activity. The request appears within seconds with tokens, cost in microcents, latency, the resolved upstream model, and an inferred activity category.
Need help? Email support@routeshift.io.
RouteShift
An LLM proxy gateway that turns every request into a routing decision — pick the best model, fail over to the cheapest, and bill back the savings.
Virtual API keys
Mint sk-proxy- keys with allowed-model, rate-limit, budget, expiry, and metadata controls — and rotate them without dropping traffic.