Velokey
Verified Oct 23, 2026 DiscontinuedThe site stopped responding. Other discontinued tools
Unified pay-per-token gateway to over 100 text, image, and video AI models.
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Paid
No fixed plan price exists; usage is metered per token, per image, or per second of video after a small starter credit.
Use tool ↗About Velokey
Velokey is a unified API gateway that gives access to more than a hundred text, image, and video models — including Claude, GPT Image, and Seedance — through one account, one API key, and an OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching models generally means changing a base URL rather than rewriting integration code. Billing is entirely usage-based: language models are billed per token, image models per image, and video models per second of output, with new accounts given a small free credit. A dashboard tracks usage, cost, latency, and errors across every model called through the gateway. The site names a single point of contact, Patrick, with no company or location disclosed.
- Platforms
- Web · API
- API
- Yes
- Last verified
- Oct 23, 2026
Verified sources
- Product function: unified gateway to 100+ text/image/video models with per-unit pricingvelokey.ai ↗
- Founder/operator identified only as "Patrick" on the company's X accountx.com ↗
Is Velokey legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- Domain registered
- Jun 18, 2026Registry record (RDAP), registrar Spaceship, Inc., looked up Sep 18, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Nov 22, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site, before our last check on Oct 23, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 23, 2026The site no longer answers
- Operated by
- VelokeyOur research, card verified Sep 1, 2026
Pros & cons of Velokey
Velokey covers more ground than most AI gateways by including image and video models alongside text, priced and metered per unit rather than bundled into a subscription. It reads as a small, possibly one-person operation rather than an established infrastructure company, which matters for anyone routing production traffic through it and depending on uptime.
Pros
- Covers text, image, and video models in one gateway, not just text
- OpenAI-compatible API for low-friction integration
- Transparent per-unit pricing shown directly on the homepage, e.g. per-token, per-image, and per-second rates
Cons
- No company name, team, or location disclosed beyond a single first name
- No data-retention policy detail beyond a one-line claim of not storing prompts
- Near-identical positioning to several other small AI-gateway products makes durability hard to judge
Best for
- Developers who want text, image, and video models behind one API without separate integrations
- Projects with unpredictable usage that prefer metered pricing over a fixed subscription
- Teams already using an OpenAI-compatible SDK who want a quick provider swap
Not for
- Production teams needing an infrastructure vendor with a visible company and support SLA
- Anyone needing committed-spend or enterprise contract billing rather than prepaid credit
Watch out: The product's pitch closely mirrors several other small AI-gateway startups (one key, 100+ models, failover); avoid routing anything mission-critical through it without a fallback.