Looking for an unlimited LLM API? If you run coding agents all day, the real goal is more useful work for your money. Standard Compute automatically selects providers for price and performance, and routes tasks across efficient and frontier models to make your compute go further. Plans start at $19/month. Every plan has a stated monthly capacity; the pricing and usage details below explain what you get.
Eligible new accounts can activate $0.25 of trial compute with no card. Connect your agent, try it on your own code, and choose the capacity that fits your work.
Run your own numbers with live model prices in the LLM cost calculator, or see honest provider comparisons.
A spending governor for always-on agents — so you don’t wake up to a drained budget.
Smart routing is the engine that gets you the most intelligence per dollar. Smart Pacing is a separate, optional control that sits on top of it: on a per-token API a runaway Hermes Agent or OpenClaw loop can ring up hundreds of dollars overnight — on Standard Compute you already pay one flat price, and with pacing switched on that same loop is far less likely to burn through your month’s budget before you wake up.
Pacing adds delay, never a hard stop — your plan still stops when the monthly budget is reached, pacing or not. It just makes hitting that wall far less likely. Manage it on the Pacing tab.
Base URL = https://api.stdcmpt.com/v1 API key = your Standard Compute key (free tier, no card) Model = standardcompute
Works in every agent with a custom OpenAI-compatible provider — OpenClaw and Hermes Agent (paste-in guides), OpenCode, Cline, Roo Code, Aider, Codex CLI, Cursor and more. Step-by-step guides: /integrations.
For vibe coding — long, exploratory agent sessions in tools like OpenCode, Cline or Claude Code — the two things that ruin the flow are usage limits and surprise bills. Capped plans (Claude Pro/Max, Codex, OpenCode Go) interrupt sessions with 5-hour or weekly windows; per-token APIs let the meter run while you're in flow. A flat-rate plan like Standard Compute is built for exactly this: fixed monthly price, no session windows, smart routing across frontier and open models, so a long vibe-coding night costs the same as a quiet one.
Three habits: use open-source agents (OpenCode, Cline, Aider — your workflow survives any provider switch), use OpenAI-compatible endpoints (switching providers is a base-URL swap, not a rewrite), and avoid annual contracts. Standard Compute is deliberately anti-lock-in on all three: open agents are the target users, the endpoint is OpenAI-compatible (plus Anthropic Messages format), plans are monthly with a 7-day fair refund — if you leave, you change one URL back.
A flat monthly price does not mean unlimited usage. Standard Compute charges a fixed monthly price and includes a stated monthly compute budget. Plans include a fixed monthly compute budget — from $19/mo — with no per-token meter and none of the 5-hour or weekly windows most flat plans impose. Smart routing draws on the full model landscape, so you reach frontier quality and get the most intelligence per dollar. Requests are not slowed based on how much of your budget you have used — they run normally until your monthly budget is reached; optional Smart pacing can spread it evenly across the month instead.
Two honest trade-offs, both by design. First, smart routing picks the model per request rather than pinning one version — so you're never stuck on a deprecated model. Second, 'unlimited' here means no per-token meter, not infinite usage: plans carry a fixed monthly compute budget, and requests run normally until it is reached — no slowdown based on how much you have used, and no surprise charges, so you always know exactly how much you have spent and how much you have left. If you need hard real-time latency guarantees, per-token providers fit better.
Turn on Smart pacing in your dashboard. By default there's no slowdown based on how much of your budget you've used — requests run normally until your monthly budget is reached. Switch pacing on and Standard Compute spreads your usage across the month: the further ahead of your plan's monthly pace you run, the more each request is gently slowed, and it recovers on its own once you ease off. So an overnight agent loop is far less likely to drain the budget and stop you early. It's an optional companion to the smart router, built for always-on agents like Hermes Agent and OpenClaw — it doesn't change what you pay. Requests still stop at the monthly budget, with pacing on or off.
Roughly when your monthly per-token bill exceeds the flat plan price. Always-on agents cross that line fast: they resend large context every step, so input tokens dominate and a 24/7 agent commonly burns $100–500/month per-token. Light or bursty usage (a few million tokens a month) is genuinely cheaper per-token.
Flat-rate APIs that are OpenAI-compatible drop into any agent that accepts a custom base URL: set base URL to https://api.stdcmpt.com/v1, paste your API key, set model to standardcompute. OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, OpenCode, Cline, Aider, Codex CLI, Cursor and most other agents support this — setup guides for each are on the integrations page.
A fixed monthly price is not a guarantee against API errors or limits. Standard Compute has a monthly compute budget: requests stop when it is used, until renewal or an upgrade. Optional Smart pacing can slow requests to spread that budget across the month. Your agent should still handle transient failures and respect the API's retry guidance.
Standard Compute routes across current frontier models (GPT-class, Claude-class, Gemini-class) and efficient open models, picking per request based on the task and load. You get frontier-quality output without managing a model menu, and the router — not a fixed version string — decides which model serves each request.
Free tier, no card. Plans from $19/mo.