Product
Ship AI features
without the infrastructure tax.
Forge is an AI inference gateway that gives you one API across every major model provider, flat-rate pricing, intelligent routing, and sovereign data control. Built for production teams that need reliability without complexity.
What Forge does
One endpoint replaces five provider integrations.
Intelligent model routing
Send model: "auto" and Forge picks the best model based on cost, latency, and request complexity. Simple queries go to fast, cheap models. Complex tasks route to frontier models. Your code never changes.
Flat-rate pricing
Pay $49–$499/month instead of per-token. Forge absorbs the cost variance across self-hosted and commercial models so your AI budget is predictable every month, regardless of traffic spikes.
Data sovereignty
Sovereign mode routes all inference to self-hosted models. Zero-retention mode ensures nothing is stored. Audit log egress sends compliance events to your own infrastructure. Available on Pro and above.
Automatic failover
If a provider goes down, Forge automatically fails over to the next healthy backend. Your users never see a 503. Health checks, latency tracking, and retry logic are built in.
Drop-in SDK compatible
Change your base URL. That's the migration. Forge speaks both OpenAI and Anthropic wire protocols. Works with the OpenAI SDK, Anthropic SDK, LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenClaw, and any OpenAI-compatible tool.
Multimodal from day one
Text, images, and documents through one endpoint. Our self-hosted models support vision natively, so multimodal requests work in sovereign mode too — no third-party API required.
Cost savings
What 5 million tokens actually costs.
Monthly cost for a typical production workload of 5M tokens (60% input, 40% output).
| Provider | Monthly cost | Per-token billing | Data sovereignty |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI GPT-4o | $75–$150 | Yes (variable) | No |
| Anthropic Claude Sonnet | $45–$90 | Yes (variable) | No |
| Google Gemini Pro | $35–$70 | Yes (variable) | No |
| Self-hosted (DIY) | $200–$500+ | No (infra cost) | Yes |
| Forge (Starter) | $49 | No (flat rate) | Optional |
Estimates based on published API pricing as of March 2026. Actual costs vary by input/output ratio and model selection.
Under the hood
Smart routing in three strategies.
Cost-optimized
Default strategy. Routes to the cheapest model that can handle the request. Self-hosted models are tried first, commercial providers are used when needed.
Best for: General-purpose apps, chatbots, content generation
Lowest latency
Routes to the model with the lowest current response time. Uses real-time latency metrics to pick the fastest backend available.
Best for: Real-time UIs, autocomplete, interactive agents
Best quality
Routes to frontier reasoning models optimized for complex, multi-step problems. Prioritizes accuracy over speed or cost.
Best for: Code generation, analysis, research, legal review
Direct model access
Need a specific model? Request it by name. Forge routes directly and builds a fallback chain from equivalent-tier models so you never get a 503.
Use cases
How teams use Forge in production.
AI-powered customer support
A support platform uses Forge to power AI-assisted ticket responses. Simple FAQ queries route to fast, cheap models via auto. Escalated tickets that need deep context understanding route to frontier models. The team pays a flat $149/month instead of $400–$800 in variable API costs.
OpenClaw personal assistant
A developer runs an OpenClaw agent connected to their email, calendar, and Slack. The agent makes 50–100 API calls per hour around the clock. With per-token pricing, that's $200+/month. With Forge at flat rate, it's $49/month. Sovereign mode keeps all personal data on private infrastructure.
Legal document analysis
A legal tech company processes contracts and NDAs with AI. Sending client documents to OpenAI or Anthropic violates their data handling agreements. With Forge sovereign mode, all inference stays on private infrastructure. Zero-retention mode ensures nothing is stored. Audit log egress sends events to their own SIEM.
Multi-model without multi-integration
A startup wants to use GPT-4o for some tasks, Claude for others, and DeepSeek for cost-sensitive batch jobs. Without Forge, that's three separate API integrations, three billing relationships, three sets of error handling. With Forge, it's one SDK client and one API key. Model selection is just a string parameter.
Why Forge
One API. Full control.
Every other option makes you choose between convenience and control. Forge gives you both.
The difference
Forge vs. the alternatives.
| Capability | Direct API | OpenRouter | DIY self-hosted | Forge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat-rate pricing | — | — | Infra only | ✓ |
| Sovereign routing | — | — | Yes | ✓ |
| Zero-retention mode | — | — | Build it | ✓ |
| Audit log egress | — | — | Build it | ✓ |
| Compliance audit trail | — | — | Build it | Built in |
| Smart model routing | — | Basic | — | Cost + latency + class |
| Automatic failover | — | Yes | Build it | ✓ |
| Dedicated infra | — | — | Yes | Enterprise |
| Setup time | Per provider | Minutes | Days–weeks | Minutes |
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