Open models.
Now at frontier quality.

Spend up to 8× less on AI, without giving up reliability, uptime, or quality.

Open models match frontier models on intelligence.
Keln adds what production needs: uptime, predictable latency, consistent output, real support.

provider-1 · primary
188 tok/s
provider-2 · standby
standby
Your product stays up

Even when a model provider is not. Keln sees the provider slowing down and moves your request before it fails.

Typical AI gateway21.6s
Keln5.4s
4× faster on slow requests

Your worst-case latency drops from tens of seconds to a few. The slow P99 tail won't break your product.

Kimi K3 · provider-2
TTFT 410 ms · 96 tok/s
Kimi K3 · chosen
TTFT 191 ms · 171 tok/s
Kimi K3 · provider-4
TTFT 980 ms · 42 tok/s
Always the fastest node. At one flat price.

Price is fixed per model, so you get the fastest verified capacity.

Zero data retention

Prompts and outputs are never stored. Keln routes only to zero-retention providers.

Team setup in minutes

Manage teams, projects, budgets, and API keys from one dashboard, with live spend and usage.

Run open models at
speeds you can count on
50tok/s
minimum throughput
5s
maximum time to first token

2-minute setup.
No commitment.

Change one base URL and start building. Same OpenAI SDK. Pay per token. Stop anytime.

1# point your OpenAI SDK at Keln
2from openai import OpenAI
3
4client = OpenAI(
5 base_url="https://api.keln.ai/v1",
6 api_key=os.environ["KELN_KEY"],
7)
8# everything else stays the same

Curated production-ready
open models.

One price per model. Benchmarked continuously on routing probes and live traffic.

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Keln is a reliability layer for open models.

Keln reroutes every request the instant a provider slows, verifies the node, normalizes the output, and controls reasoning on every request.

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If a provider fails mid-stream, Keln reroutes the request to a backup provider.
You receive one seamless response and are billed once.

Quality verification
Keln probes every node against a set reference. It catches the silent quantization and pulls the node before it serves you.
node-afp match
node-bfp match
node-dquant drift · pulled
Normalized outputs
Provider quirks in, one schema out.
reasoning_effort: "none"
thinking: {"type":"disabled"}
chat_template_kwargs: {"enable_thinking":false}
reasoning: {"enabled":false}
Reasoning control
One reasoning interface across all models.
reasoning_effort
nonelowhigh
reasoning_content
Verified capabilities
Keln tests every capability a provider claims and skips any provider that fails on the feature your request needs.
tool_callsverified
json_modeclaimed, failed
modalityverified
provider skipped for this request

More than just a gateway. Keln's continuous provider quality control, predictive routing, and normalization make open models reliable and enterprise-ready.

For every size of team.

Same reliability, from solo engineer to enterprise.

Frontier-grade reliability at 8× lower price

Two-line Keln migration, keep your existing SDK.
Full OpenRouter and Vercel compatibility.
Frontier-grade reliability without running the infrastructure yourself.
One interface for every model, with universal reasoning settings and one-line model swaps.
One contract, the fastest capacity across many providers.
Continuous quality and parameter checks on every node: quantization, tool calls, modality.
Zero data retention across every provider.
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Frontier-grade reliability at 8× lower price

Ship on open models without anyone owning inference
You won't need to rely on a single provider's GPU capacity.
Predictable spend: one published price, per-key budget, and a live spend view.
Keln checks every node against the released weights. Output quality does not vary by provider.
Sign up and start. Pay per token, with no contract and no minimum.
Zero data retention across every provider.
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Frontier-grade reliability at 8× lower price

One contract, the fastest capacity across many providers.
Stable when you scale fast. No single provider’s capacity limits you.
Usage managed across projects with roles, budgets, and full request visibility.
Continuous quality checks on every node.
No commitment. Pay per token; switching takes one line of code.
Zero data retention across every provider.
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For providers
Have spare GPU capacity?

Run one command and Keln sells your idle capacity at a published rate and never touches your own customers' traffic. Self-serve, live in under an hour.

Become a provider ↗

Frequently asked

Everything you need to know about Keln. Still have questions?
Reach out anytime.

FAQ page ↗

One flat price per model, billed per token. You pay the same published rate no matter which provider or node serves the request. Keln routes to the fastest verified capacity. Your cost stays predictable while your latency stays low.

Open models are inexpensive but operationally unreliable: providers silently quantize, throttle, and go down. Keln is the reliability layer. It continuously does quality verification, predictive routing, and output normalization, so you get consistent quality, low tail latency, and zero-downtime failover behind one price and one API.

A single provider is a single point of failure: when they go down, your product goes down, and when they serve a quantized model, your output quality drops. Catching that yourself means retry code, benchmarks, and quality monitoring. Keln removes the single point: a fleet of providers behind one endpoint, verified continuously, rerouted automatically, recovered mid-stream when a node fails.

Most gateways act like a proxy: they forward your request to a provider and hand back what comes out.

Keln actively manages what's behind the endpoint. Every provider is verified continuously, outputs are normalized to one schema so tool calls and reasoning fields behave the same everywhere, and routing is optimized for speed with a learned first-token deadline, a hedged backup route, and mid-stream failover. Enterprise plans add a contractual SLO on latency and uptime. Keln is a reliability layer for open models, not just a router.

Every request is scored against live health and performance signals for each provider: TTFT, throughput, error rate, and quality checks. Keln only routes to capacity that clears your targets, an expected latency under 5 s to first token and at least 50 tok/s, and it predicts slowdowns before they land. If a provider stalls mid-stream, Keln fails over to healthy capacity, so you always end up on the fastest verified provider.

Minutes. Point your existing OpenAI-compatible client at Keln’s endpoint, swap in your API key, and you’re live, no SDK migration and no infrastructure changes.

Yes. Keln is OpenAI-compatible, so any OpenAI SDK or tool works out of the box, just change the base URL and key. Keln is also 100% compatible with the OpenRouter and Vercel AI SDK interfaces.

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