AI/ML API

What AI/ML API does

AI/ML API is a private, for-profit company founded in 2024 operating an AI gateway — a unified API routing platform that aggregates 500+ AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, Microsoft, Alibaba Cloud, Black Forest Labs, Deepgram, Mistral, NVIDIA, Moonshot AI, ByteDance, Kling AI, Zhipu AI, Sakana AI, and others into a single OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible REST endpoint. The platform spans chat, code, image, video, voice, music, embedding, language, 3D generation, OCR, and safety/moderation modalities and is supplemented by an AI Playground for pre-integration experimentation. Leadership comprises CEO Pavel Sokolov and CBDO Sergey Nuzhnyy; the company runs with a stated 1–10 person team.

The business model is usage-based token pricing across all models, sold through a self-serve Pay-As-You-Go tier (with a $20 prepaid credit entry point and optional crypto payments) and an Enterprise tier offering dedicated servers, private models, unlimited RPM/TPM, extended data storage, and staff training under multi-year contracts. Go-to-market is API-first and product-led: developers register, generate keys, and integrate by changing the base_url; channel mix includes the company blog, Discord, GitHub, Product Hunt, and an open-source ambassador program. Distribution is fully digital and global.

Named customers include Adobe, Washington State, Sigma, Teknikforge, DataStax, and GlobalGPT, spanning enterprise technology, government, and startup segments. The platform has received 2024 industry recognition (SoftwareSuggest Top Trending Product, SourceForge Award). Limitations of the model are also evident: it is classified as a 'pure routing gateway' with higher latency than direct hardware-optimized providers (e.g., Groq, SambaNova), and the company has no disclosed funding rounds, no patents, and no proprietary AI models — revenue, ARR, and ownership structure are not disclosed in the available data.

Name

AI/ML API

Legal name

AI/ML

Website

https://aimlapi.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

AI/ML API operates a unified AI gateway aggregating 500+ models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, and other providers into a single OpenAI-compatible API, serving developers, startups, and enterprises globally via pay-as-you-go and enterprise contracts.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI API Gateway / Generative AI Infrastructure

NAICS

Custom Computer Programming Services (541511), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Software Publishers (5132)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371), Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

AI Integration & Orchestration Platforms (Connectors, Workflow, iPaaS for AI) (HDAEANAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

AI Application Enablement Platforms (Copilot/Agent Frameworks, SDKs) (HDAEANAJ), AI/ML Engineering & Model Development Services (BPAEAHAF)

Keywords

• AI model API gateway
• Multi-provider AI integration
• Generative AI platform
• Machine learning inference API
• OpenAI-compatible API routing

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Usage-Based Token Pricing: Primary revenue stream from per-token pricing across all 500+ models. Each model has its own input and output pricing per million tokens. Users pay only for what they consume with no minimum commitments.
2. Prepaid Credit Plans: Pay As You Go prepaid plan at $20 providing credits for usage across all models. No usage limits, with access to playground and crypto payments available.
3. Enterprise Custom Contracts: Custom pricing for enterprise customers with high-volume production workloads, custom infrastructure, dedicated servers, private models, unlimited RPM/TPM, extended data storage, and full staff training.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

AI/ML API is a unified AI gateway that exposes 500+ AI models from multiple providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, Microsoft, Alibaba, Black Forest Labs, Deepgram, and others) through a single OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible REST API. It allows developers and enterprises to consume chat, code, image, video, voice, embedding, OCR, and 3D generation models with a single API key and unified billing, replacing the need to integrate and manage each provider separately. An interactive AI Playground is included for testing models before integration.

Product overview

AI/ML API operates as an AI gateway platform providing unified API access to 500+ AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, Microsoft, Alibaba Cloud, Black Forest Labs, Deepgram, and other providers. The core offering is the AI Gateway, which serves as a unified API interface with OpenAI and Anthropic SDK compatibility. The platform includes an AI Playground for testing models before integration. Model portfolio spans multiple categories: Chat/Reasoning models (GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.8, Gemini 2.5 Flash, Grok 4.20, Grok 3 Beta); Image generation (MAI-Image 2.5, FLUX.2, GPT Image 2); Video generation (Grok Imagine Video, Happy Horse 1.1, Kling Video V3, Sora 2); Voice/Audio (MAI-Voice-2, Nova-3, MAI-Transcribe); Code models (Grok Build 0.1, Kimi K2.7 Code); and Embedding/OCR models. Pricing is pay-as-you-go at $20 prepaid for general use, with enterprise custom pricing offering dedicated servers, private models, and unlimited RPM/TPM.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• AI Gateway (Unified API) Unified API gateway providing access to 500+ AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, Microsoft, Alibaba Cloud, Black Forest Labs, Deepgram, NVIDIA, and other providers through a single OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible interface for developers and enterprises.
• AI Playground Interactive sandbox environment for testing all API models before integration, providing access to 400+ models for experimentation without requiring immediate code integration.

Quantifiable outcome

• 99.9% uptime SLA with top-tier serverless infrastructure
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

AI capability13 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

15 partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• OpenAIcoreTechnology or IntegrationAI/ML API provides access to OpenAI models including GPT-5.5, GPT-5.5 Pro, GPT-5.2, GPT-5.1, GPT-5 Pro, GPT Image 2, GPT Image 1.5, and others through the unified API. The platform is fully OpenAI-compatible.
• AnthropiccoreTechnology or IntegrationAI/ML API provides access to Claude models including Claude Opus 4.8, Claude Opus 4.7, Claude Opus 4.5, Claude Fable 5, and others through the unified API.
• GooglecoreTechnology or IntegrationAI/ML API provides access to Google models including Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemini 3 Flash, Gemini 3 Pro Image, Veo 3.1, Gemma 4 26B A4B, and others through the unified API.
• xAIcoreTechnology or IntegrationAI/ML API provides access to xAI's Grok models including Grok 4.20, Grok 4.3, Grok 3 Beta, Grok Build 0.1, and Grok Imagine Video through the unified API.
• MicrosoftcoreTechnology or IntegrationAI/ML API provides access to Microsoft's models including MAI-Image 2.5, MAI-Voice-2, MAI-Transcribe 1.5 through Azure AI Foundry integration.
• Black Forest LabscoreTechnology or IntegrationAI/ML API provides access to FLUX.2, Black Forest Labs' advanced text-to-image generative model, through the unified API.
• Alibaba CloudcoreTechnology or IntegrationAI/ML API provides access to Alibaba's models including Qwen Max, Qwen Plus, Qwen3 VL Plus, Wan 2.6 Video, Z-Image Turbo, Happy Horse, Seedance 2.0 Mini, and others.
• Mistral AIcoreTechnology or IntegrationAI/ML API provides access to Mistral AI models including Mistral OCR 4 and Mistral OCR 3 for document intelligence and OCR tasks.
• DeepgramcoreTechnology or IntegrationAI/ML API provides access to Deepgram's speech recognition models including Nova-3, Nova-3 General, and Nova-3 Medical for voice transcription.
• NVIDIAcoreTechnology or IntegrationAI/ML API provides access to NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Ultra model optimized for complex multi-step reasoning, long-context analysis, and agentic workflows.
• Moonshot AIcoreTechnology or IntegrationAI/ML API provides access to Kimi models including Kimi K2.7 Code and Kimi K2.7 Code HighSpeed for coding and agent workflows.
• ByteDancecoreTechnology or IntegrationAI/ML API provides access to ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 Mini video generation model and Dreamina Creative Upscale image enhancement.
• Kling AIcoreTechnology or IntegrationAI/ML API provides access to Kling AI's video generation models including Kling Video V3 Turbo Pro and Standard Turbo variants for text-to-video and image-to-video.
• Zhipu AIcoreTechnology or IntegrationAI/ML API provides access to Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 coding model designed to hold entire repositories in context.
• Sakana AIcoreTechnology or IntegrationAI/ML API provides access to Sakana AI's Fugu Ultra model that orchestrates specialized AI agents for complex multi-step tasks.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Portkey: Portkey offers an AI gateway and observability platform for routing LLM requests across providers, with features like fallbacks, caching, and guardrails. It targets the same developer and enterprise use cases as AI/ML API, particularly teams needing multi-provider reliability.
• OpenRouter: OpenRouter is the closest direct competitor, providing a unified API gateway to hundreds of AI models from providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta with similar OpenAI-compatible endpoints and usage-based pricing. Both compete for the same developer and SMB customer base.
• LiteLLM: LiteLLM provides a unified API to call 100+ LLM models in OpenAI format, available as both an open-source proxy and managed service. It directly competes on the same routing value proposition and is a credible open-source alternative for cost-sensitive developers.

Emerging players

• Fireworks AI: Fireworks AI provides fast inference for open-source and fine-tuned models with custom hardware optimizations. Like Together AI, it offers multi-model access but differentiates on inference speed and custom deployment rather than pure aggregation.
• Helicone: Helicone is an open-source LLM observability platform that has expanded into AI gateway functionality with caching, routing, and monitoring features. It competes for the same developer tooling budget but differentiates on observability-first positioning.
• Replicate: Replicate runs thousands of open-source AI models via a cloud API, serving developers who need access to image, video, and audio models beyond what foundation-model providers offer. It overlaps with AI/ML API on the long-tail model use case but leans more toward community/open-source models.
• Together AI: Together AI operates an AI inference cloud offering access to many open and frontier models with its own GPU infrastructure. While it also serves a multi-model inference role, its proprietary compute stack differentiates it from a pure routing layer like AI/ML API.

Broad incumbents

• Cloudflare AI Gateway: Cloudflare AI Gateway is a managed routing and caching layer for AI requests, offered as part of Cloudflare's broader developer platform. It bundles multi-model routing with Cloudflare's network and security stack, posing a major competitive threat on price and distribution.
• Azure AI Foundry: Azure AI Foundry (formerly Azure AI Studio) catalogs and serves models from OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, Mistral, and others through a unified endpoint with enterprise compliance baked in. It is both a partner (Microsoft models) and a competitor to AI/ML API for enterprise customers.
• AWS Bedrock: AWS Bedrock provides a single API for foundation models from Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Mistral, and others, deeply integrated with AWS enterprise procurement. It competes on the same multi-model access use case but with the distribution, compliance, and bundling advantages of AWS.

Market position

Weaknesses1 record

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• GitHubgithub.com/aimlapi
• Xx.com/aimlapi
• Facebookfacebook.com/aimlapi
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/aimlapi

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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