The most reliable of the cheap LLM APIs. The cheapest of the reliable ones.

SAGG is a gateway that sits between your code and several independent LLM providers, automatically switching to a backup the instant one stumbles — so your requests keep working, not just the API you happen to be pointed at. Get a key in one click, drop it into your existing OpenAI client, start sending requests. No code changes beyond the URL.

Model

DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 — 400,000 token context window, 16,000 token max output, strong performance on agentic and tool-use tasks. Open-weight (MIT-licensed) — part of why we can offer this at a fraction of centralized-provider pricing.

What this is

SAGG is a gateway for accessing language models through a familiar OpenAI-compatible API. Instead of a direct contract with a single cloud provider, you go through us — and we decide which of several independent inference backends handles your request, based on their live availability.

If one backend is unreachable or errors out, your request automatically retries on the next one — no action needed on your end, no dropped connection. You pay for tokens actually used, not a subscription.

Why this works better than a direct provider

Failover, not a single point of failure. Requests go through multiple independent inference providers by priority — not random distribution, but true "primary + backup": while the primary is healthy, it gets 100% of traffic; on failure, an immediate switch to the next one in line.

One time budget for the whole request, not per attempt. If the primary provider is slow or unreachable, a backup attempt still fits within a single wait limit — you don't get doubled latency from retries.

Prepaid, no billing surprises. Top up your balance in advance, spend as you go. Running low triggers an advance warning, not a surprise invoice.

Pricing

Standard

$0.075 / 1M tokens (blended)

Input: $0.03971 / 1M · Output: $0.07941 / 1M

The same offer you'd get through OpenRouter — here, without the middleman.

Details
  • Model: DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
  • Context window: 400,000 tokens
  • Max output: 16,000 tokens
  • Streaming (SSE): supported
  • Input: $0.03971 / 1M tokens
  • Output: $0.07941 / 1M tokens

Example request:

curl https://api.privatedeskai.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"hi"}]}'

Already have a Super Deal key on a funded account? Request an additional key for Standard directly via POST /internal/issue-key (omit line, or {"line": ""}) with your existing Bearer token — same balance, no separate signup.

Super Deal

$0.028 / 1M tokens (blended)

Gonka-network-only routing, no non-Gonka backup — the lowest price we offer, with a real tradeoff explained below.

Details
  • Model: DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 (same model as Standard)
  • Context window: 400,000 tokens
  • Max output: 16,000 tokens
  • Streaming (SSE): supported
  • Routing: two independent Gonka-network brokers, priority failover between them
  • No DeepInfra fallback — both hops run on the Gonka network

Honest tradeoff, not hidden: both of this line's providers are Gonka-network brokers. If the underlying Gonka network itself has an outage (not just one broker), both can fail at the same time — this line does not have Standard's independent non-Gonka fallback. That's the real reason the price is lower.

Example request — same shape as Standard, your key alone decides the line/routing/price, not the request:

curl https://api.privatedeskai.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_SUPER_DEAL_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"hi"}]}'

Already have a Standard key on a funded account? Request an additional key for this line directly via POST /internal/issue-key ({"line": "Super Deal"}) with your existing Bearer token — same balance, no separate signup.

How to connect

  1. Get an API key — form above, no card required for the first steps, top up your balance via Stripe.
  2. Replace the base_url in your existing OpenAI client with api.privatedeskai.com/v1 — nothing else in your code changes.
  3. Send requests as usual. Tokens are deducted from your balance automatically — check your remaining balance anytime via GET /internal/balance.

Current Status

No incidents this hour 1+ incidents this hour — each segment is one hour, last 24 hours (UTC)

Uptime (24h): · Latency (P50): · Incidents (24h):

"Incidents" counts automatic switches to a backup provider after this line's own primary provider failed, in the last 24 hours — not customer-visible downtime by itself, since the switch is usually seamless, but a real signal of upstream instability.

More detail
Latency P95

Uptime and latency reflect the gateway service as a whole, not this specific line — every line runs through the same process, so there is no meaningful separate reading for "is the process up" per line. Incidents above ARE line-specific.

Technical details

Model: DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 — a 284B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model (13B active per token), 400,000 token context window, 16,000 token max output. Strong performance on agentic and tool-use benchmarks (e.g. Terminal-Bench); open-weight under the MIT license.

Failover, in detail: 2 independent inference backends in strict priority order (not round-robin) — the primary (currently the Gonka decentralized network) handles 100% of traffic while healthy; on failure, the request retries the backup (currently DeepInfra) within a single shared 20-second time budget for the entire non-streaming request, not a fresh timeout per attempt. Streaming requests use a different, per-attempt timeout instead, so a legitimately long stream is never cut short by a fixed total budget.

Shared infrastructure, disclosed: Standard and Super Deal currently route through the same primary Gonka-network node — an outage there can affect both lines at the same time, even though each line's own incident tracking (see Current Status above) is counted separately. Super Deal's own pricing-card details cover the fuller tradeoff (no non-Gonka backup on that line specifically).

API compatibility: drop-in OpenAI-compatible endpoint — change one line in your existing client.

curl https://api.privatedeskai.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"hi"}]}'

Privacy: we don't log or retain prompt/completion content ourselves — only operational metadata (token counts, provider used, status). See the full Privacy Policy for exactly what each upstream provider commits to.