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CodeGateway uses tiered pricing based on a 90-day rolling spend: starting at 1.5x and bottoming out at 1.2x. This article explains the five tiers, how the math works, the lock-in mechanic, and answers common questions.
TL;DR: Your CodeGateway markup is set by your last-90-day rolling spend in real time, across 5 tiers (1.5× → 1.2×). Use more, pay less per token. No lock-ins, no top-up gimmicks.
CodeGateway uses a pay-as-you-go, save-more-as-you-use pricing model. The markup isn't fixed — it's calculated dynamically based on your accumulated spend over the past 90 days. The more you use, the lower your markup, and the bigger your discount.
This article answers four questions:
CodeGateway is an access service for the Claude API. We give developers worldwide low-latency, reliable access, but every request costs us upstream tokens paid to Anthropic. The markup is the multiplier we apply on top of Anthropic's official pricing.
For example: Claude Sonnet 4.6's official input price is $3 per 1M tokens. If your markup is 1.5x, you pay $4.5 per 1M tokens for the same request. The markup covers our server costs, monitoring, customer support, and a safety margin to keep things running reliably.
We chose tiers over a single flat markup because the marginal service cost for heavy users is lower — servers, monitoring, and disaster recovery are fixed costs, and amortizing them over more requests pulls the per-unit cost down. Passing those savings back to the developers who actually use the service heavily is the fairer approach.
Markups are calculated based on your 90-day rolling spend (in USD):
Tier | 90-day spend | Markup | Example: tokens per $1 top-up |
|---|---|---|---|
Tier 1 | $0 – $10 | 1.5x | ≈ 667K tokens (Sonnet input) |
Tier 2 | $10 – $50 | 1.4x | ≈ 714K tokens |
Tier 3 | $50 – $200 | 1.3x | ≈ 769K tokens |
Tier 4 | $200 – $500 | 1.2x | ≈ 833K tokens |
Tier 5 | $500+ | 1.2x | ≈ 833K tokens |
Tier 5 is also 1.2x — that's our hard floor, the minimum gross margin needed to keep the service running long-term. It won't go lower.
New users start at Tier 1. As your 90-day rolling spend crosses each threshold, you're automatically promoted to the next tier.
"Rolling" means the window moves forward with time — it isn't fixed from your registration date.
Today: 2026-04-29Window: 2026-01-29 – 2026-04-29 (the past 90 days)Tomorrow: 2026-04-30Window: 2026-01-30 – 2026-04-30
The benefit of this design: long-term steady users always keep their lower markup, and aren't "diluted" by their early trial-period spending. If you stop using the service for a while, the older spend gradually rolls out of the window and your markup may drift back up.
The markup has nothing to do with top-ups — it's determined by your last 90 days of spend. Every API request looks up your current rolling spend, matches it against the tier table, and bills at that tier's rate.
Example (assuming you just started, so all spend is within the last 90 days):
Common misconceptions:
Log in to the Dashboard → Overview page. The top of the page shows three numbers:
The progress bar is designed so you can see at a glance how much more spend it takes to level up — useful for deciding when to top up next.
Q: I'm at Tier 2 with a 1.4x markup. If I stop using it for a month, will I drop back to Tier 1?
A: It depends on how much of your old spend is still inside the 90-day window. If a lot of it has rolled out while you were inactive, yes you'd drop down. But as long as your rolling spend stays at $10 or above, you stay on Tier 2.
Q: When my rolling spend crosses a tier threshold, does the lower markup kick in immediately?
A: Yes. The next API request looks up your rolling spend at request time, finds the new tier, and bills at the new rate. No "lock-in," no delay.
Q: Tier 5 is 1.2x. Will it ever drop further to 1.1x or lower?
A: No. 1.2x is our hard floor (signed off by the CFO) — anything lower and the service can't run sustainably. We'd rather invest the savings into reliability — more regions, lower latency — instead.
Q: Will pricing change in the future?
A: The tier structure and markups are a public commitment, and any change will be announced at least 30 days in advance. When Anthropic adjusts their official pricing, we adjust our base prices in lockstep (the markup itself stays the same).