treg vs Locus: a Locus alternative with no subscription

treg vs Locus: the short answer

Both give agents paid APIs from a prepaid balance through a remote MCP server. treg is like OpenRouter for tools: one API key and one balance for many paid APIs. treg bills per call with no subscription, 0% markup and no top-up fee, uses your own keys on every account without metering them, and adds your connected accounts and your team's own tools. Locus Pro has monthly plans and is built to resell: per-customer balances, your own markup and an embedded billing widget. One agent can hold both connections.

Which one fits

Different tools fit different jobs. Here is when each one is the better choice.

Choose Locus if

You resell tools to your own customers, with your markup, per-customer balances and a billing widget.
You want each agent scoped: allowed tools, a maximum per call, a budget per run and an expiry.
You want signed webhooks for every charge, top-up and low balance.
You want OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini models on the same balance as your tools.

Choose treg if

You want no subscription: top up a balance and pay per call at the provider's rate.
You want your own provider keys used first and never metered, on every account.
Your agent works in your own Google Analytics, Search Console, Meta Ads, LinkedIn or Slack accounts.
You need SEO, enrichment, social and ad-library data.
You want your team's own APIs, CLIs and skills behind the same token.

treg vs Locus, side by side

Each Locus cell restates Locus's own public pages on 3 November 2026. "Not published" means those pages say nothing about it, not that the feature does not exist.

Feature	treg	Locus
Billing
How you pay	A prepaid team balance. Each catalog call is billed at the provider's own rate. No subscription and no seats.	Locus Pro: a prepaid balance with monthly plans: Free $0, Plus $20, Enterprise $200, Enterprise Plus $1,000. Pay With Locus: a USDC wallet with no subscription.
Free start	$1.00 of credit, once per new verified account. No card.	Free plan at $0 with 5 calls a minute and no included credit. Minimum card top-up $5.
Fees	0% markup, a commitment in the terms. No top-up fee. Calls on your own keys, tools and connected accounts are never metered, except X through treg's own X app, which X bills per use.	Tools at catalog base price. A Locus markup is not published. A card processing fee on top-ups, paid by the buyer or the workspace.
x402 or stablecoin pay per call	Not yet. Top-ups are by card today.	Yes: x402 and MPP, plus a USDC wallet on Base.
What your agent can use
Size, in their words	4,100+ tools across 126 providers, plus the tools your team registers.	3,954 services from 57 reviewed providers (home page). Other pages give other counts.
Paid data with no account at the vendor	Yes: SEO and SERP data, backlinks, people and company enrichment, social profiles and posts, ad libraries, web search and scraping, image, video and voice generation.	Yes: AI models, search, scraping, browser automation, enrichment, finance, crypto, weather, OCR, email and more.
Your own accounts	Google Analytics, Search Console, Google Ads, Business Profile, Tag Manager, Meta Ads, TikTok Ads, Microsoft Advertising, Pinterest Ads, Snapchat Ads, YouTube, LinkedIn, Slack, X, TikTok, Instagram and Facebook Pages.	Not published
Actions (writes)	Writes in your connected accounts (ad changes, Slack messages, social posts) and any API or CLI your team registers. No triggers or scheduled workflows: the agent runs the steps.	Custom API actions you import; they start disabled.
What a call returns	The provider's own answer, unchanged. Routed tools add a small wrapper and say so.	Not published
How your agent connects
MCP	A remote MCP server with OAuth or a token header, for Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others.	A remote MCP server with browser OAuth.
API, CLI and SDKs	An HTTP API (method, path, query and body reach the provider unchanged), a CLI and an agent skill. No SDKs.	A REST API with OpenAPI and a TypeScript SDK. A CLI is listed.
Bring your own keys	Yes, on every account. Your team's key always wins and is never metered.	Enterprise only, for custom API actions.
Open source and self-host	Code on GitHub under Apache 2.0 with added terms. You can self-host for your own team; offering it as a hosted service to others needs permission.	Not published
Control
Price before the call	Yes. Each tool's rate, with its source and the date it was checked.	Yes: prices shown before you use each tool.
Spend limits	A team daily spend cap, a per-call cost ceiling, per-member daily call caps and daily budgets per tagged customer (advisory). No per-key hourly or lifetime caps.	A tool allowlist per agent connection, a maximum per call, a shared budget per run, an expiry, and a monthly workspace cap.
Call records	An audit log of calls with their cost, and every charge in the balance ledger.	Activity per customer, agent, provider and endpoint, and signed webhooks.
Team	Teams with owner, admin, member and viewer roles, and tool access per member.	Team access on Enterprise.

treg's catalog size is read live from the catalog. Prices change; check each product's own pricing page before you decide.

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The trade-off

What each one does better

Where Locus does best

01
Reselling. Per-customer balances, a configurable markup, an embedded billing widget and payouts.
02
Agent payments. x402, MPP and a USDC wallet on Base let an agent pay with no account.
03
Agent scoping. A maximum per call and a shared budget per run, set on each agent connection, checked before the provider is called.
04
Webhooks. Signed, retried webhooks for charges, top-ups, refunds and low balance.
05
Language models. OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini and others on the same balance.

Where treg is the better choice

01
No subscription, no fee. treg bills each call from a prepaid balance at the provider's rate, with 0% markup in its terms and no top-up fee. Locus Pro's paid plans run from $20 to $1,000 a month.
02
Your keys on every account. Your team's key always wins and is never metered. On Locus, your own keys need Enterprise.
03
Your accounts. Google Analytics, Search Console, Google Ads, Meta Ads, LinkedIn and Slack, connected by OAuth and never metered.
04
GTM and SEO data. Keyword volume, backlinks, work emails and phones, social profiles and ad libraries.
05
The code is on GitHub. Read it, or self-host treg for your own team.

Not either-or

Using Locus and treg together

A platform that resells tools to its customers may want Locus's billing layer. A team whose agent needs GTM data and its own accounts may want treg. Both are remote MCP servers, so one agent can hold both connections.

Give your agent
every tool in the catalog.

$ set up treg — https://treg.to/llms.txt

Get started

Frequently Asked Questions

Is there a Locus alternative for AI agents?

Yes. treg is a Locus alternative that gives agents paid tools from one prepaid balance, built around your team's own keys, accounts and tools. treg puts your team's own APIs, CLIs and skills behind the same token, and adds SEO, enrichment, social and ad-library data.

How much does Locus cost?

Locus pricing is a set of monthly plans for Locus Pro: Free at $0 with no included credit, Plus at $20, Enterprise at $200 and Enterprise Plus at $1,000 a month. Locus runs tools at catalog base price, does not publish a markup, and adds a card processing fee on top-ups.

Can I use my own API keys with Locus?

On Enterprise. Locus connects your own provider credential to custom API actions in an Enterprise workspace, while treg accepts your team's keys on every account. On treg, your key always wins and those calls are never metered.

Locus vs treg: what is the difference?

The main difference is who each one is built for. Locus is built to resell tools to your customers, with per-customer balances, your own markup and an embedded billing widget. treg is built around your team: your connected Google Analytics, Search Console, Meta Ads, LinkedIn or Slack accounts, and your team's own tools.

Can I use Locus and treg together?

Yes. Locus and treg are both remote MCP servers, so one agent can hold both connections. A platform that resells tools to its customers may want Locus's billing layer, and a team whose agent needs GTM data and its own accounts may want treg.

How does treg pricing work compared with Locus?

treg has no subscription: you top up a team balance and pay per call at the provider's rate, with 0% markup in its terms and no top-up fee. treg gives $1.00 of credit once per new verified account, with no card. Locus Pro's paid plans run from $20 to $1,000 a month.

Sources and method

Locus home pagehttps://paywithlocus.com
Locus pricinghttps://paywithlocus.com/pricing
Funding and billinghttps://docs.paywithlocus.com/locus-pro/funding-and-billing
Connect agentshttps://docs.paywithlocus.com/locus-pro/connect-agents
API keys and BYOKhttps://paywithlocus.com/guides/api-key-management-and-byok
x402https://paywithlocus.com/x402/index.md

We read these pages on 3 November 2026. treg's own facts come from its pricing, terms and code. We left out what we could not check, and we do not guess why a product works the way it does.

Something wrong or out of date? Write to jason@treg.to and we will fix it.

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