About faborapi
faborapi is an independent, prepaid, OpenAI-compatible AI API gateway operated as a developer service and governed by Belgian law. One sk-fabor- API key and one prepaid USD balance give developers access to 25 Claude, GPT, Gemini and Grok models through the standard OpenAI Chat Completions format at https://faborapi.com/v1.
Mission
faborapi exists to make frontier AI models affordable for individual developers, students and small teams. Instead of per-provider billing, contracts and monthly commitments, the service buys model capacity in bulk and resells it as prepaid credits at a small, transparent markup. Every price shown on the site is derived from a published formula — Pay $29 for $320 API credits (91% pack discount) — get effective token rates 86% to 98% lower than official provider pricing. Real cost = credit rate × 0.090625 — so anyone can verify the numbers against the official provider pricing pages.
What faborapi provides
faborapi relays requests to the model providers and bills each successful request from a single prepaid balance. The live catalog currently lists:
- Anthropic Claude · 8 models
- OpenAI GPT · 7 models
- Google Gemini · 5 models
- xAI Grok · 5 models
- Endpoints: POST /v1/chat/completions (OpenAI format, streaming supported), POST /v1/messages (Anthropic Messages, compatible with Claude Code), POST /v1/responses, GET /v1/models (public) and /v1/files for uploads up to 20 MB.
- Credit packs range from the Nano Pack ($10 for $100 of credit, the minimum top-up) to the Gold Pack ($99 for $1100).
- New accounts receive $0.50 of welcome credit. Failed requests are not billed; requests are refused with HTTP 402 when the balance is 0 or lower.
- Payments: bank cards through Stripe, Manza in Morocco and Mobile Money in 11 African countries.
- Not offered: image, video or audio generation, and embeddings.
Infrastructure and reliability
The gateway runs on a globally distributed edge network, so requests are terminated close to the user and relayed to the model providers over pooled, encrypted connections. API keys are stored only as hashes, upstream provider keys are encrypted at rest, and prompts are not retained or used for training. Billing is metered per request with per-model token rates, and every request is logged with its token count so users can audit their own consumption from the dashboard.
How prices are verified
Official provider prices are read from each provider's public pricing page and were last checked on . faborapi credit rates are read live from the catalog and compared only with the official price of the exact same model ID; models without an exact official match are shown as not comparable.
Legal framework
faborapi is currently operated as an independent project, not as a registered company; no enterprise number or legal entity is claimed. The contractual relationship with users is governed by Belgian law and the courts of Brussels, as set out in the Terms of Service, and personal data is handled under the GDPR as described in the Privacy Policy.
Contact and support
Email support@faborapi.com for integration, account, payment or privacy questions. The team aims to reply within 1–2 business days; this is an estimate, not a 24/7 commitment.