Change two lines. Pay the market price for inference.
Spot is the exchange for AI tokens, and a drop-in replacement for the OpenAI API. Point your client at us, set the most you'll pay per million tokens, and stop paying list price for a commodity.
Two lines change. Nothing else does.
Spot speaks the OpenAI API. Point the client at us, add a ceiling on what you'll pay per million tokens, and ship. Median integration is under ten minutes; median saving is 41%.
A hard ceiling, enforced before the request is routed. If nothing in the book clears at or under your price, you get a clean 402 instead of a surprise invoice.
Pin fills to a jurisdiction when residency is in your contract. Everything else routes globally for the best price.
Streaming, tool calls, structured output, vision, batch, retries, your existing SDK version. No wrapper, no proxy to run, no rewrite.
One switch, three different wins.
The engineer keeps their code. The founder keeps their runway. The CFO finally gets a unit cost that maps to a public benchmark.
Integration, not migration
Two lines in your client constructor. No sidecar, no proxy to operate, no change to your evals or prompt code.
Routing overhead, p50
p95 is 71 ms. If a venue degrades mid-stream we fail over inside your price limit and you're billed once.
Models behind one key
Swap instruments with a string. Quality drift is benchmarked continuously and delisted automatically, so the name keeps its meaning.
Off your largest variable cost
Median saving versus provider list price. For most AI-native companies inference is the second line on the P&L after payroll.
Committed spend
No annual minimum, no reserved-capacity gamble, no stranded prepaid credits. Gross margin improves the month you switch.
From signup to production
Self-serve account, wire or card, keys in minutes. Nothing to negotiate until you want credit terms.
Invoice across every venue
One counterparty, one contract, one monthly statement — with every fill itemized to the second and exportable to your GL.
The only fee
No seats, no platform fee, no markup on the fill. Falls to 3 bps at volume, and we never trade against the book.
Benchmark for every dollar
Your unit cost is auditable against the published Spot index — the first defensible answer to "is this price fair?"
A worked example at $250k / month.
Assumes the median 41% clearing discount to list and the 8 bps exchange fee. Your real number depends on instrument mix and how tight you set max_price.
One book. Two sides. A printed price.
Capacity is normalized to tokens per second within a model family, context window and region — so a quote from one venue is directly comparable to a quote from another. That normalization is what makes a price possible.
Post an order
Name the instrument, the throughput you need, the region, and your limit price. Or take the mid and be done.
Spot clears it
Continuous matching across 37 venues, routed to the cheapest qualifying capacity. Every fill prints to the public tape.
Point your SDK
One endpoint, one key, OpenAI-compatible. Capacity is live in seconds. Cash settles T+0.
Stop paying list price for a commodity.
Buyers on Spot pay the clearing price, not the rate card. Set a maximum price per million tokens and the router simply never fills above it.
Idle accelerators are a wasting asset.
List throughput you aren't using by the hour — from a single node or a whole reserved cluster. Keep your floor price, keep your customers, get paid same-day.
Six families, thirty-one models.
Instruments are defined by capability class and context window, never by vendor. Swapping the underlying model never changes your contract.
Know the price before you spend the money.
Every fill prints to a public tape. Stream it to set budgets, forecast unit economics, or watch your own effective rate against the index — no account needed to read it.
Built to pass a procurement review.
Spot never holds your model weights, your prompts, or your customers' data in the clear. Cash moves through a segregated account at a US chartered bank.
Same-day cash settlement
Fills net continuously; payout runs at 17:00 ET to your bank account. No credits, no expiry, no lock-in.
Segregated client funds
Balances are held apart from Spot's operating capital at a US chartered bank and reconciled daily.
Type II, plus ISO 27001
Annual audit, continuous monitoring, penetration tests twice a year. Reports available under NDA.
No prompt retention
Payloads pass through encrypted and are never written to disk. Venues are contractually bound to the same terms.
What am I actually buying?
Throughput on a model family — tokens per second, at a context window, in a region, for a term you choose. Not a specific vendor's endpoint.
How is quality held constant?
Every venue is benchmarked continuously against the family reference. Drift beyond tolerance delists them from the book automatically.
What happens if my venue fails mid-request?
The router retries against the next-best fill inside your price limit. You are billed once, at the original price.
Can I trade without routing traffic?
Yes. Financially-settled contracts on the Spot index are available to qualified participants, cash-settled against the daily print.
Is there a minimum?
No minimum commitment and no platform fee. You pay 8 basis points on the notional you trade, each side.
Who regulates this?
Physical delivery of compute is a commercial contract, not a security. Financially-settled products are offered under a separate, registered entity.
Every commodity eventually gets a price. Tokens just got theirs.
Accounts open in a day. No minimum, no platform fee.