IN THE FIELD GUIDE
clfaigateway
clfaigateway.dev
CLF AI Gateway is an OpenAI-compatible API providing access to frontier open models like DeepSeek V4, Kimi, and GLM with up to 1 million token context windows. It offers prepaid credits, pay-per-token billing with up to 40% discounts, and supports streaming, tool calls, and JSON mode, designed for developers using the OpenAI SDK unchanged.
THE PRODUCT, BEYOND THE PITCH
Automatically researched · Not editorially reviewed · Sources checked Sep 10, 2026
A good fit for
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Know the limitations
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What you can do
- High-volume classification, extraction, and chat workloads requiring fast response times.
- Repository-scale code work and agentic tool use with vision input support for screenshots and diagrams.
Features
- OpenAI-compatible chat completions with streaming SSE, tool calls, and JSON mode.
- Per-token billing with detailed logging of input, cached, and output tokens including exact cost.
- Automatic prefix caching with full cache hits billed at 10% of normal price.
- Zero-completion insurance where failed requests producing no output tokens cost $0 automatically.
Integrations
- Compatible with OpenAI SDK without changes except base_url modification.
Platforms & data export
- API accessible via HTTP/2 with support for curl, Python, and JavaScript clients.
THE COST FOR YOUR TEAM
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A practical workflow
- Create an account to get an API key with no credit card required, taking about 30 seconds.
- Top up credits via VietQR bank transfer or international card payments, with auto-confirmation in about 15 seconds.
- Point your OpenAI SDK base_url to the CLF AI Gateway endpoint to use the API unchanged.
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