OpenAI-compatible router that puts free LLM models from 13 providers behind one endpoint with automatic failover
An API combining image, video, audio and language models below market price
Stage
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MVP
Founded
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Based in
FR
CA
Pricing model
Freemium
Paid
Pricing
Free: open core under BSL 1.1, no account or card required. Pro: 12 € monthly (or 9.08 € per month billed annually at 109 €/yr), or 199 € for Lifetime license (one payment, no renewals, limited to first 200). 14-day free trial for Pro requires a card.
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Key features
Automatic failover across 13 free LLM providers
OpenAI-compatible API endpoint
Model capability testing for tools, JSON and vision
Hardcoded zero paid model fallback
Local router with keys staying on your machine
Model fusion and answer synthesis in Pro
Custom virtual model profiles in Pro
Native prompt compression to reduce tokens
Automatic model cooling and recovery probing
Support for Cursor, Continue, Open WebUI, LangChain and Claude Code
Image generation models
Video generation models
Audio generation models
Large language models
Web playground interface
API access at api.tein.ai
Prepaid credit system
Creative mode for broader creative range
Web dashboards
Model catalog access
What makes it different
Structured inability to spend money on paid models, enforced in code not configuration
No middleman: keys stay local, prompts go directly to providers
Benchmarked quality parity with gpt-5 for classification, extraction and reasoning
Millisecond failover when a model rate-limits or fails
Ficelle
Tein