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AI API gateway / relay: 307 models behind one OpenAI-compatible key. image2.5 $0.0085/image, Seedance 2.0 Mini $0.01056/sec, LLM from $0.0228/M tokens. USD settlement, pay-as-you-go, $1 minimum top-up.

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GITHUB · launched Sep 28, 2026 · 31 upvotes (top 26%) · 0 views

Niche: ai api gateways and proxies · 336 launches, 7 in the last 7 days ▼ -46% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Model & infra
  • Developer
  • AI-native
  • Commercial product
  • ai-api-gateway
  • api-aggregator
  • api-pricing
  • apimart-es
  • cheapest-llm-api
  • llm-api-gateway
  • +2 more

Could you build this?

Partial A basic API proxy can be vibe-coded, but running a high-throughput, low-latency commercial gateway with automated credit settlement, token counting, and multi-provider failover needs serious distributed infra.

What it would actually take: Requires high-performance reverse proxy architecture (e.g., Rust, Go, or Cloudflare Workers) maintaining accurate real-time token/second streaming metrics, wallet deduction, rate limiting, and circuit breaking across upstream providers. The challenge lies in infrastructure reliability, handling edge-case stream protocols (SSE, chunked encoding), and preventing abuse/fraud on prepaid balances.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 538 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #177 of 539 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 322 days after the earliest competitor.

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