GlianaAI vs per-vendor API keys
Pay per call from your own wallet over HTTP 402 — no signup, no key to provision, rotate or leak. How that differs from holding an account with every model vendor.
How Per-vendor API keys works
Sign up with each vendor, generate a key, put a card on file, then manage quotas, invoices and rotation per vendor. Your code carries one secret per provider.
How GlianaAI differs
There is no account and no key. The first request answers 402 with the exact price, your wallet pays it, and the same request retried returns the result. The credential is the payment.
When Per-vendor API keys wins
A funded team running one or two models in steady production, where procurement is already done and finance wants a monthly invoice from a named vendor.
When GlianaAI wins
Autonomous agents and anything short-lived — a script, a demo, a job that runs once. Nothing to provision means nothing to clean up, and no key can leak from a machine that never held one.
The honest note
A direct vendor account is usually cheaper on a single high-volume route, because you are paying their price with no margin on top. We win when one wallet needs many models and nobody wants to onboard with six companies to find out which one is right.
Try it without signing up
There is nothing to provision. This asks the gateway which endpoint fits, and costs nothing.
curl 'https://api.glianalabs.com/v1/consult?intent=transcribe%20a%20podcast'
Then make a paid call, or hand an agent https://api.glianalabs.com/skill.md.