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Unified API gateway to 500+ AI models (GPT, Claude, Sora, image/video) with OpenAI-compatible endpoints and discounted usage.
Human-friendly API testing client for terminal, desktop and web, known for readable syntax; the CLI is open source.
Open-source data-movement platform now adding a context/action layer for AI agents; 600+ connectors and flexible pricing.
Managed ClickHouse platform giving developers hosted ingestion and query APIs to ship real-time analytics products fast.
ImageKit is an image and video optimization and delivery API with a DAM and creative automation for developers and teams.
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- ✦Single OpenAI-compatible API for 500+ models
- ✦Chat, image, video and audio models
- ✦Discounted per-request pricing
- ✦One dashboard for keys, quotas and usage
- ✦Multi-region routing and failover (99.9% uptime)
- ✦Multiple payment methods incl. crypto
- ✦Human-friendly command-line HTTP client
- ✦Web and desktop GUI apps
- ✦Simple, readable request syntax
- ✦Request export/import and history
- ✦Path parameters and 'copy as command'
- ✦Open-source terminal version
- ✦600+ data connectors
- ✦ELT replication and CDC
- ✦Open-source and managed cloud options
- ✦Airbyte Agents context store (MCP/SDK/CLI)
- ✦Capacity- and volume-based pricing
- ✦Governance: SSO, RBAC, encryption
- ✦Managed, hosted ClickHouse database
- ✦Sub-second SQL query APIs
- ✦Kafka and other data connectors
- ✦Safe, zero-downtime schema migrations
- ✦Git-based branching with zero-copy prod data
- ✦SOC 2 Type II enterprise security
- ✦Real-time image/video optimization and URL-based transforms
- ✦AI and GenAI transforms (smart crop, background removal, generative fill, upscaling)
- ✦Global CDN delivery with sub-50ms response
- ✦AI-powered digital asset management
- ✦Creative automation for on-brand banners at scale
- ✦SDKs and integrations for major stacks and CMSs
- →Accessing many AI models via one API
- →Cutting AI model API costs
- →Building multimodal AI apps
- →Consolidating AI billing and keys
- →Testing REST APIs
- →Sending and inspecting HTTP requests
- →Debugging web services
- →Sharing API requests across a team
- →Building data pipelines to warehouses
- →Syncing SaaS data for analytics
- →Giving AI agents live business context
- →Building real-time analytics dashboards
- →Powering in-app usage or event analytics
- →Streaming Kafka topics into query-ready tables
- →Letting AI coding agents build and deploy analytics
- →Speeding up website and app media performance
- →Optimizing e-commerce and media images and video
- →Centralized digital asset management and collaboration
- →Adaptive video streaming
- →Generating thousands of on-brand banner variations