Africa-first AI infrastructure
Frontier AI, priced in your currency
Paid how you already pay. Point your existing OpenAI code at Dawnstack, change one URL, and keep everything else. No dollar card, no monthly minimum.
All 45 models we serve are open-weight today. You can download the weights, run them yourself, and check our measurements.
The mechanism
One base URL, and the response your client already parses
curl https://api.dawnstackai.com/v1/chat/completions \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $DAWNSTACK_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "model": "llama-3.1-8b", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "What is the capital of Kenya? One sentence."}] }'
{
"id": "chatcmpl-744d0449-6366-44c7-96e7-a8a1f43ac520",
"object": "chat.completion",
"created": 1785097284,
"model": "llama-3.1-8b",
"choices": [
{
"index": 0,
"message": { "role": "assistant", "content": "The capital of Kenya is Nairobi." },
"finish_reason": "stop"
}
],
"usage": { "prompt_tokens": 21, "completion_tokens": 8, "total_tokens": 29 },
"dawnstack": { "cost_micros": 6, "cost_usd": 0.000006, "request_id": "req_8f2a1c" }
}
Base URL https://api.dawnstackai.com/v1.
The response is the OpenAI shape, so your existing client parses it unchanged.
How it works
Four steps, and only one of them touches your code
STEP 1
Sign up
Email or Google. No card.
STEP 2
Top up
From $1.00, in your own currency.
STEP 3
Create a key
One click. Shown once, stored as a hash.
STEP 4
Change one URL
Point your OpenAI client at us. Nothing else changes.
Your balance pays for requests. Top up in your own currency, or redeem a code if you have one.
Models
over 40 models, one endpoint
Models from Meta, Google, OpenAI, Mistral, Alibaba and Moonshot. Switch between them by
changing the model
field. Prices are per million tokens.
Mistral AImistral-nemo
Mistral AI
$0.03
per 1M in
$0.04
per 1M out
Tencenthy3
Tencent
$0.21
per 1M in
$0.87
per 1M out
Qwen (Alibaba)qwen3-vl-30b
Qwen (Alibaba)
$0.23
per 1M in
$0.90
per 1M out
OpenAIgpt-oss-120b
OpenAI
$0.06
per 1M in
$0.26
per 1M out
inkling
Thinking Machines
$1.50
per 1M in
$6.08
per 1M out
Measured, not claimed
We publish what your language actually costs
A price per million tokens assumes a token is worth the same in every language. It is not. The same sentence in Swahili takes about twice as many tokens as in English, and in Amharic several times more, so identical meaning costs more. A single flat rate passes that on without showing it.
We measured it on FLORES-200, 1,012 professionally translated sentences, against every model we serve, and publish the multiplier per model and per language. Where a model is licensed so that nobody can serve it commercially, we say that too.
Pricing
Your first top-up can be one dollar
Top-ups are denominated in US dollars.
No subscription, no card on file, and your balance never expires. You are billed for the tokens a request actually produces.
No subscription
Nothing recurring, and nothing to cancel.
No expiry
Your balance stays on the account until you spend it.
No card on file
Nothing is stored to charge you later.
No minimum
A dollar is a valid top-up, and so is every amount above it.
$1.00 is roughly 22.2 million output tokens on mistral-nemo. See what a request costs.
What is built, and what is next
Chat completions, top-ups in your own currency and measured language costs work today. Function calling, speech and a building surface for people who do not write code are what we are working on.