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# Router

Router is coming soon: vAPI Network plans OpenAI-compatible model access using a staking usage limit and purchased USDC balance.

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vAPI Router is coming soon. This page describes how it works at launch.
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vAPI Network Router is coming soon. It is designed to provide one OpenAI-compatible endpoint for text, embeddings, speech, transcription, and images.

Use Router for text, embeddings, speech, transcription, and image generation. Connect through an OpenAI-compatible client, the vAPI client, MCP, or a linked agent.

**Status:** Coming soon. At launch, staking sets a daily Router usage limit, and Router balance is bought with USDC.

## The Router page in the console

Open `/router` in the vAPI console.

* Signed out, the page explains the three steps: stake vAPI, get a daily Router limit, and use models with an OpenAI-compatible SDK. It offers a **Stake vAPI** button and shows the **Models** and **Quickstart** tabs. The **Keys** tab asks you to sign in.
* Signed in, the page adds Your Router with the Router balance section and a How your limit works panel. It also adds the Keys and Usage tabs. Switching tabs keeps your place on the page.

## For agents

Install the client:

```bash
npm i -g vapi-network
```

Agents can use `router.models`, `router.usage`, and `router.chat` through MCP. Compute calls use both the owner's daily Compute limit and the agent's daily allowance. Balance calls spend the owner's shared purchased Router balance, outside those daily limits.

## Next

* [Call your first model](/router/api-quickstart.md)
* [Use Router from your agents](/router/use-router-from-your-agents.md)
* [How Router works](/router/how-router-works.md)

Checked on 2026-10-02.


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