Api Endpoint

CheapTokens AI Inference

OpenAI-compatible LLM inference and chat completions via discounted Venice API credits. Pay USDC to receive a live Venice.ai API key for /api/v1 models, chat, images, audio, video, and embeddings. Same-Day credits are 30–90% below Venice direct and expire at 23:59 UTC; Prepaid API Keys support recurring agent jobs.

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Offering

Provider
cheaptokens.ai
Method
POST
Offering type
Api Endpoint
Transport type
http
Category
Api
Delivery
Not provided
Pricing model
Not provided
x402 version
2

Endpoint context

URL
https://cheaptokens.ai/api/buy
MIME type
application/json
First seen
2026-10-16T01:50:06.715Z
Last seen
Tags
Inference, LLM, openai, chat-completions, AI, venice, api-credits, openai-compatible

Payment pricing

x402 payment terms are the authoritative price for calling this endpoint.

Payment option 1
1 USDC
Atomic price: 1000000 · Network: eip155:8453 · Asset: USDC · Scheme: exact
Raw x402 terms
[
  {
    "scheme": "exact",
    "network": "eip155:8453",
    "asset": "0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913",
    "amount": "1000000",
    "payTo": "0x213c8d7434E2ae7AA1C392767c5120778D413215"
  }
]

Observed health

Status
Healthy
Latest latency
40 ms
Average latency
241 ms
HTTP status
204
Last checked
Reachability
100% over 14 checks

Latency is measured to the first response headers. A reachable result does not verify response accuracy or merchant identity.

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "type": {
      "type": "string",
      "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "POST",
        "PUT",
        "PATCH"
      ]
    },
    "bodyType": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "json",
        "form-data",
        "text"
      ]
    },
    "body": {
      "type": "object",
      "additionalProperties": false,
      "required": [
        "usdPaid"
      ],
      "properties": {
        "usdPaid": {
          "type": "number",
          "minimum": 0.01,
          "description": "Discounted USD amount to pay for Venice API credits. Minimum is based on receiving at least $0.50 in credits after current time-based pricing."
        },
        "purchaseMode": {
          "type": "string",
          "enum": [
            "spot",
            "prepaid"
          ],
          "description": "Use \"spot\" for Same-Day Credits or \"prepaid\" for a Prepaid API Key with prepaid balance and daily credit reserve."
        },
        "dailyReservedUsd": {
          "type": "number",
          "description": "Daily credit reserve amount in Venice API credits per UTC day. Required when purchaseMode=\"prepaid\". Must fit unreserved capacity for the start date and be at least one-seventh of the reserve balance."
        },
        "reserveStart": {
          "type": "string",
          "enum": [
            "tomorrow"
          ],
          "description": "Prepaid API Key daily credit reserve start. New Prepaid API Keys start tomorrow UTC; use Same-Day Credits for work today."
        },
        "topUpKeyLast6": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Optional last 6 characters of a wallet-owned active Prepaid API Key to top up."
        },
        "paymentSessionId": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Opaque session ID returned in a prior 402 response; echo it back on retry."
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "type",
    "method",
    "bodyType",
    "body"
  ],
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "type": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
      "type": "object"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "type"
  ]
}