The cheaper, faster
OpenRouter alternative
Blackmagic AI is an OpenRouter-style API gateway with prepaid credits, OpenAI-compatible routes, chat playground, API keys, model catalog, usage logs, and billing controls.
curl https://api.blackmagic.engineering/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $BLACKMAGIC_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "gpt-5.5",
"messages": [
{ "role": "user", "content": "Draft a launch note." }
]
}'- OpenAI
- Anthropic
- Gemini
- Meta
- Mistral
- xAI
- DeepSeek
- Qwen
- Black Forest Labs
- Moonshot
- Cohere
- Perplexity
- Stability AI
Your stack already speaks our API.
Point any OpenAI SDK at one base URL and switch models by name. Chat, code, and image all run off the same balance and the same usage log.
{
"model": "gpt-5.5",
"messages": [
{ "role": "user", "content": "Summarize this PR." }
]
}The same frontier models — 48–74% under list price.
GPT-5.5
OpenAI
$1.32/$7.92 per 1M tokens
GPT-5.5 Pro
OpenAI
$7.92/$47.53 per 1M tokens
GPT-5.3 Codex
OpenAI
$0.46/$3.7 per 1M tokens
Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic
$1.76/$8.81 per 1M tokens
Claude Opus 4.7
Anthropic
$1.76/$8.81 per 1M tokens
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Anthropic
$1.06/$5.28 per 1M tokens
From signup to first token in minutes.
Pay as you go credits. No subscription.
Add a balance once and spend it across every model — billed 1:1, no markup, no monthly fee. Drag the slider to see what you'd save.
Estimate at a 70/30 input/output mix, billed 1:1 with no markup.
Transparent rates: every model is metered per token at the rates shown above in Available models — frontier models run 48–74% cheaper than official list price, and you only pay for what you use.
Built to carry real production traffic.
Your keys never leak
You hold one Blackmagic key. The real provider keys stay locked on our servers.
One bill, nothing hidden
Every request logged with model, tokens, latency, and exact cost. One invoice.
No rewrite required
Speaks the OpenAI API. Change one base URL — keep your SDK, prompts, and stack.
One key for all your model traffic.
Buy credits, copy a key, and start sending requests. No setup wizard, no agent workflow, no subscription.