Turn the AI Wave Into Your Own Business
Tired of only watching from the sidelines of the AI era? Both individuals and companies can become an OntoRoute merchant agent: light to start, transparent revenue share, settled monthly. This one's for those ready to step in.
Have you ever had this thought?
Watching everyone around you talk about AI, use AI, make money with AI — you felt that itch too: "If I tried something of my own, couldn't I make it work?"
But the thought barely flickers before a bucket of cold water: I'd have to plug into 400+ models, right? Negotiate with suppliers? Build billing, risk control, observability? Keep a team of engineers on payroll? Forget it — too heavy, I can't play this game.
We know that feeling all too well. Because OntoRoute grew out of exactly that moment: wanting to use AI, but getting talked out of it by the infrastructure.
This post isn't here to walk you through parameters or architecture. We're here to say something serious:
If you too want a business of your own in the AI era — this time, the barrier is far lower than you imagine.
What we're doing: turning "using AI" into "selling AI"
OntoRoute is a unified AI API platform: one key, access to 400+ large models; one bill, every call accounted for. Behind it stands everything we've absorbed — supplier negotiation, billing, risk control, observability, and guardrails.
And apps/web — what we call the "Merchant Hub" — is the face of all this turned toward partners. It places the platform's capabilities, intact, into your hands, letting you become a merchant agent: run your own AI business without reinventing the wheel.
A few facts to put you at ease
- 400+ models ready to sell with one click, spanning 10+ mainstream providers
- 6T+ monthly active tokens and 2.5M+ global users already running on this foundation
- You only manage customers and trust; we carry the heavy load
We're looking for two kinds of people
Individual agent
Are you a developer, blogger, community host, or freelancer? As long as you want to point the people who trust you toward trustworthy AI tools, you can become an agent.
Enterprise agent
Are you a reseller, system integrator, SaaS vendor, or industry solutions company? You can do wholesale resale, build your own brand (OEM), even sell private deployments.
It's not either/or — it's which one fits you.
You need no company, no team, no inventory. Submit a profile, pay a credit deposit (¥5,000), pass review, and you get your own promo code and referral link. Every user who comes through your link becomes your downstream customer permanently — every call they make from then on is tied to you.
You get a fuller operating space: token wholesale resale, OEM white-label with your own domain and brand, private-deployment project sales, compute-voucher distribution. Base credit deposit ¥10,000; if you choose OEM white-label, an additional ¥50,000 minimum prepayment applies. You're not "using" the platform — you're "opening" your own shop on it.
How you earn: an account you can actually read
We won't fool you with empty talk like "high returns, earn while you sleep." An agent's income is a transparent, accountable ledger:
In one sentence: merchant revenue = margin × share rate.
- Margin = all your tenants' real token consumption − the platform's cost at your supply price
- Share rate = determined by your monthly consumption tier; the bigger the scale, the higher the rate
Tier illustration (exact rates are configured by platform operations; shown here as examples only)
| Monthly consumption (paid) | Tier | Margin share (illustrative) |
|---|---|---|
| 10k ~ 100k | Entry | ~40% |
| 100k ~ 500k | Growth | ~50% |
| 500k+ | Elite | ~60% |
| Top contributor | Flagship | Highest rate |
The scale you build, the platform sees — and shares, in the open.
On top of the main revenue, two more "icing on the cake":
- New-payer bonus: if the paying users you bring reach target in the first month, you get a one-time cash bonus.
- Quarterly sprint: agents ranked at the top each quarter get an extra share bump.
How the money reaches you: settled monthly, never dragging
The 1st of every month, the system generates a statement for the previous month. Every bit of your margin, every bonus, laid out in the open.
By the 15th of the following month, revenue arrives. Individual agents have personal income tax withheld by the platform; enterprise agents go through official invoicing and bank transfer.
Withdraw anytime, via Alipay, WeChat, bank card, or leave it in platform balance to keep rolling the snowball.
About that deposit
The credit deposit (¥5,000 individual / ¥10,000 enterprise) is "credit," not "threshold" — when cooperation ends normally without breach, it's refunded in full, interest-free. It guards the cleanliness of the ecosystem, not your wallet.
How to start: three steps from thought to action
Choose your type. Open the merchant onboarding page, check "Individual agent" or "Enterprise agent."
Fill in your profile. Individuals submit real-name and ID; enterprises submit business license, contact, and cooperation mode (wholesale resale / OEM white-label).
Sign agreements, pay deposit, await review. Qualification review usually takes 1–3 business days. After approval, pay to activate — your dedicated promo code and link generate instantly.
From "I'll give it a try" to "I'm already on the road" is often just one submission away.
Questions you might have
In closing: the wave won't wait, but you can get in the water
We often say AI is the biggest rise in water level this era has seen.
Some stand on the shore, watching others ride the wind and waves; some get in the water and try, and find they can swim too. What we want to do is hand you a boat you don't have to build yourself — engine, navigation, life ring all ready; you only decide whether to take the helm.
The individual agent is a light starting line; the enterprise agent is a sea that can hold ambition. Whoever you are, as long as you want to leave your own wake in the AI era —
here, a place has already been kept for you.
Ready to turn that thought into a business? Open merchant onboarding, three steps to launch. The wave is rising; we're on the boat, waiting for you.
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