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Same models · Same API · Cheapest channel

The Same Model.
A Quarter Of The Price.

The model you already use is sold on several marketplaces at wildly different prices. Buoy shops all of them on every request and fills from the cheapest source that can actually deliver. One OpenAI-compatible URL. Your code, your prompts, and your answers stay the same.

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No. 01 Harbor price current

USD per 1M tokens · in / out loading…
Typical retail input and output price versus what you pay through Buoy
Model Typical retail You pay Saved
Pulling live retail and fill prices…

Typical retail is OpenRouter’s list price for the same weights (prompt / completion). You pay is Buoy’s cheapest live fill. Ranked by savings, one row per model family. Retail catalog cached 15 minutes; this sheet refreshes about every minute. Last good sheet is shown while a refresh is in flight.

The sounding

Measured on the wire

Catalog shape from the markets, plus live router totals. One reading.

524
models behind one key
119
sold in more than one place
75%
median save when sources compete
—
requests routed
—
tokens served
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models available now

No. 01b Agents · mint alone

Get a key without a human

Sign a Solana challenge, mint a bu0y_… key, fund with USDC or card, then point your OpenAI client at the API. No waitlist. Credits are prepaid and non-refundable. 

# 1) challenge → sign → mint (see scripts/agent-mint-key.ts)
curl "$API/v1/auth/challenge?address=$PUBKEY"
# POST $API/v1/auth/keys  { message, signature }

# 2) fund (Solana USDC to treasury, then confirm) or Stripe Checkout
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $KEY" "$API/v1/deposits/solana"

# 3) fill
curl "$API/v1/chat/completions" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"glm4.6","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"hi"}]}'

No. 01b Humans · passkeys

Open an account with a passkey

Register once on Account, mint a bu0y_… key, buy credits with card or USDC, then keep your usual OpenAI client. Same API either way. Credits are prepaid and non-refundable.

  1. 01
    Open Account.

    Use a device that supports passkeys. No waitlist.

  2. 02
    Register or sign in.

    Create a passkey, or unlock an existing one. That is your login.

  3. 03
    Mint a key.

    Copy the bu0y_… secret when it appears. We only show it once.

  4. 04
    Buy credits.

    Card via Checkout, or Solana USDC to the treasury address we give you.

  5. 05
    Point your client.

    Same OpenAI SDK. Change the base URL and send the key.

Open Account

No. 02 The API · prepaid fills

One endpoint, drop-in

Keep your SDK, your prompts, and your code. Change the base URL and nothing else. Quoting is free and read-only, so you can watch which source wins, and what you would pay, before a cent moves. Fills are prepaid: we reserve the worst case, run the request, then settle before the response finishes.

GET /v1/models

Every model you can reach, with the cheapest going rate for each.

Live
POST /v1/quote

What a request will cost, before you send it. Free.

Live
GET /health

Whether requests can fill right now, source by source.

Live
GET /v1/stats

Aggregate totals only. Requests, tokens, models. No per-user data.

Live 
curl https://api.bu0y.com/v1/quote \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"model":"glm4.6","inputTokens":1500,"maxOutputTokens":800}'

{
  "model": "glm4.6",
  "best": {
    "sourceId":      "surplus",
    "reserveMicros":  32,
    "confidence":     0.9
  },
  "quotes": [ ... ]
}

No. 03 The guarantees

The price you see is the price you pay

Five hard rules on every fill. No override path, no fine print beneath the quote.