Agent-native inference account

Inference your agent can open, fund, quote, and audit.

One OpenAI-compatible endpoint for a small set of pinned models. Get a price before the call, pay by prepaid wallet or x402, connect over MCP or A2A, and check the same numbers the website publishes.

x402 on Base MCP A2A Pre-flight quote Budgets Receipts Pinned builds Public ledger

$0.5 credit on signup. Top up from $1.0. Prices in USD; pay in USD by card (default) or in KES by card or M-Pesa through Paystack.

Give this to your agent
Read https://fikraapi.co.ke/agent.md and follow it.

You are operating for me. Use Fikra API to create or use an agent account, quote the call, pay with x402 (USDC on Base) or a prepaid key, and save the receipt. Do not ask me for a card. Start now. Report the receipt id and what you ran.
Open the instructions page

The agent reads the canonical file, then creates or uses an account, quotes, pays, calls and records the receipt. Streaming, budgets, receipts, MCP and tools are live.

What we are best at

Agent-grade inference procurement.

The decisions around a call: which model, what it will cost, whether it fits the budget, what actually ran, and what data was retained. We publish the parts that can be checked.

01

Quote before spend

Ask for the price of a planned call before it runs. The quote is machine-readable and tied to a quote id.

02

Pay without a browser

Use a prepaid key or x402 USDC on Base. An agent can open an account, get scoped credentials and fund a call without a human checkout.

03

Call over open protocols

OpenAI-compatible chat, MCP tools and A2A message/send share the same account and rate card.

04

Audit what happened

Read usage, balance and request records through the API, and check the same prices the website publishes.

How these claims are verified ->

Two doors, one account

Built for agents. Usable by humans.

Agents

Open an account without a browser.

Create a provisional account for a human, get a scoped 6-hour token, quote a call, top up or pay with x402, then hand over a claim link.

  • ✓ Scoped token, not a full account takeover
  • ✓ Quote before spend
  • ✓ USDC on Base, no card
  • ✓ MCP and A2A on the same account

Agent account spec ->

Humans

Change one line. Keep the SDK.

Use the OpenAI SDK against an endpoint you can audit. Prepaid wallet, no new subscription.

from openai import OpenAI client = OpenAI( base_url="https://api.fikraapi.co.ke/v1", api_key="fk_..." ) client.chat.completions.create( model="deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017", messages=[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}] )

See live prices ->

Model catalog

Pinned models. Stable IDs. Published prices.

Known model names first. Fikra-prefixed IDs are stable aliases for existing clients, not house models. Every price below comes from the live registry.

ModelIDInput / 1MCached / 1MOutput / 1MContext
Deepseek V4.1 Flash deepseek-v4.1-flash $0.05 $0.02 $0.15 1.0M
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017 $0.05 $0.02 $0.15 1.0M
Deepseek V4.1 Flash 0731 deepseek-v4-flash-0731 $0.05 $0.025 $0.17 1.0M
GLM 5.3 Flash glm-5.3-flash $0.155 $0.08 $0.49 0.31M
Kimi K3 kimi-k3 $2.1 $0.6 $10.5 1.06M
Step 5 Preview step-5-preview $1.25 same as input $3.3 1.0M
MiMo V2.6 Pro mimo-v2.6-pro $0.5 $0.012 $1.0 1.0M

Full catalog

Platform

One account across the modalities an agent needs.

Text, embeddings, speech, images and video use the same account and wallet. Upstream providers are listed on each model page.

Chat

Pinned DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi, Qwen and more through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

Models ->

Batch

50,000 requests per file, 24-hour window, same published rates. For evals and backfills.

Batch ->

Embeddings

One endpoint for retrieval and classification workloads.

Docs ->

Audio, image, video

Speech-to-text, text-to-speech, image and video generation under the same account.

Rates ->
Evidence

Check the numbers. Do not take the tagline.

The website, the API and the machine-readable files read from the same catalog. If they disagree, that is a bug.

/v1/models
Live catalog

The same prices shown here.

/usage.json
Platform usage

Requests and tokens, no user data.

/pricing.md
Machine prices

For agents and answer engines.

/changelog
What changed

Dated, with effective dates.

What we do not claim: no contractual SLA on self-serve, no SOC 2 certification, no proprietary frontier model, no zero-retention guarantee on every upstream. The trust centre states what is true today.
Latest

What changed, and why.

The product record lives in the blog and newsroom. Every entry is dated.

Blog · 27 Oct 2026

One account an agent can open, fund, quote and audit

The product definition, what changed, and what stayed.

Read ->
Engineering · 27 Oct 2026

Streaming, budgets and receipts

What is now live on the agent endpoint, and how to use it.

Read ->
Newsroom · 27 Oct 2026

The prepaid, agent-native inference account

The customer-facing announcement, with effective dates.

Read ->

Benchmark: 11 open models ranked -> · Security update: signup protection -> · All posts -> · Changelog ->

Start

$0.5 credit. Then pay only for what you use.

No new subscription. Top up from $1.0. Existing subscriptions stay honored.