What an AI gateway is, and the part that matters
One address, one key, every model. You stop holding an account, a card and a contract with each AI company, and you stop trying to work out which of six invoices a number came from.
That much, every gateway does. What separates them is what happens on the way through.
Most of them pick whoever serves a model cheapest, per request. It is sold as a feature and it behaves like a fault. The same model accepts a setting on one call and rejects it on the next, because a different provider answered. Caching works on Monday and not on Thursday. Nothing changed in your code.
We pick the route once, per model, and hold it. The others sit behind it for when one fails. That is the difference between a gateway that shops around and one that answers for the result.
More than chat,
on the same key
The same calls you already write, on every model we carry.
Give it to the team
without giving up the reins
What leaves, what it costs, and who can do what.
Three cheaper ways to run the same model
None of these is a different model or a worse one. They are the same call, bought differently.
Repeat a long prefix and those tokens bill at the cached rate. Nothing to switch on.
Send a file of requests, collect within 24 hours, at roughly half the rate. A real provider discount, passed on.
Faster and steadier where it is offered, at a premium. For when someone is waiting.
Not every model offers every tier. The rate card marks the ones that do.
Agents can use it directly
Point an MCP client here with the same key. It sees only the tools that key allows.
