AstroWay vs RoxyAPI
RoxyAPI offers 270 endpoints from $39 for 50 000 requests a month, with no free tier. AstroWay starts at $5 for 50 000 credits and gives 10,000 credits a month free.
RoxyAPI bundles 18 domains (astrology, tarot, numerology and more) and white-label reports under plans from $39/month, and ships remote MCP servers. AstroWay computes everything on its own servers - no upstream API dependency - across 865 endpoints, with full Human Design and a free tier (10,000 credits/month) RoxyAPI doesn’t offer.
Side-by-side
| Provider | Entry | Credits | Western | HD | MCP | Unique | OpenAPI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AstroWay | $5 | 50K | ✓ 186 | ✓ 12 | ✓ | ✓ 17 | 3.1 |
| RoxyAPI | $39 | 50K | ✓ 39 | ✓ 12 | ✓ | ✓ 2 | 3.1 |
The same natal request
Here's a full natal chart on AstroWay - copy-paste with a free key:
# cURL
curl -X POST https://api.astroway.info/v1/chart \
-H "X-Api-Key: aw_live_your_key" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"date":"1990-07-14","time":"14:30:00","timezoneOffset":3,
"latitude":50.45,"longitude":30.52}'
// Node.js (fetch)
const r = await fetch("https://api.astroway.info/v1/chart", {
method: "POST",
headers: { "X-Api-Key": process.env.ASTROWAY_API_KEY, "Content-Type": "application/json" },
body: JSON.stringify({ date: "1990-07-14", time: "14:30", timezoneOffset: 3,
latitude: 50.45, longitude: 30.52 }),
});
const { data } = await r.json();
console.log(data.planets[0]); // { name: "Sun", longitude: ... }Where AstroWay wins
Entry price $5 against $39, and a free tier RoxyAPI does not have. 843 MCP tools with OAuth sign-in, plus 12 prompts and 14 resources. 15 unique techniques vs 2.
- $5 vs $39 - 8× cheaper
- Free 10,000 credits a month vs no free tier
- 843 MCP tools vs 258
- 15 unique vs 2
- MCP sign-in with OAuth vs key only
Pricing in practice
RoxyAPI starts at $39/month for 50K requests - simple, but there is no free tier to prototype against. AstroWay starts free at 10,000 credits/month and its first paid tier is $5/mo, so low-volume and side-project apps can ship without paying up front.
Decision matrix
Pick AstroWay if
If you want a modern stack at a fraction of the price - MCP, Astrocartography, OpenAPI 3.1 codegen and SDKs for TypeScript, Python, PHP, Go and C#.
Pick RoxyAPI if
If you want white-label PDF reports on every plan or a large ready-made UI component library.
How to switch
Both expose REST plus an MCP server, so an AI-agent integration maps over directly - swap the MCP package to @astroway/mcp and change the base URL. The typed SDKs and OpenAPI 3.1 spec cover the plain HTTP path.
Start with AstroWay
10,000 credits free. No card. Switch from any competitor in 5 minutes.