Agents for humans

Your agent opens the account, funds it, and runs the work.

An AI agent can create a Fikra API account for a person, mint a key, and fund it by card or mobile money. Both are charged in KES at KES 133 = $1, and the wallet is credited in USD. Then it runs chat, images, video, audio, batches and jobs with one token. No signup form on the human's side.

Agents for humans $0.5 signup credit Free DeepSeek route x402 on Base MCP A2A Pre-flight quote Receipts

$0.5 credit on direct signup, including the free DeepSeek route. Top up from $1.0. Card or mobile money, both charged in KES at KES 133 = $1.

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

You are operating for me. Ask me for the email to use, then open a Fikra API account with POST /v1/agents/accounts. Use the delegated token to mint an API key and fund the wallet. Default is $10. Pay by card or mobile money only, both charged in KES at KES 133 = $1. Then use the key for chat, images, video, audio, batch and the fixed-price tools. Send me the claim link so I can set a password and own the account. Do not ask for my card. Start now and report the claim link, the balance and each receipt id.
Open the agents for humans guide

The agent reads the guide, opens an account in your name, mints a key, funds it by card or mobile money, runs the work and hands you the claim link. Every call records a receipt.

How Fikra is arranged

Agents for humans first. Human inference second. Agent-native rails third.

One account, three ways in. The order below is the order we build for.

1. Agents for humans (A4H)

Your agent opens the account and runs the work.

An agent creates a provisional account for a person, gets a scoped 6-hour token, funds it by card or mobile money, runs the call, and hands over a claim link. The person keeps the key.

  • ✓ No signup form for the human
  • ✓ Scoped token, then a claim link
  • ✓ Card or mobile money, charged in KES

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2. Human inference

Sign up, get $0.5 in credit, keep the SDK.

Use the OpenAI SDK against an auditable endpoint. Every direct signup starts with $0.5 in credit, including the free DeepSeek route. Top up by card or mobile money when you need more.

  • ✓ $0.5 credit on signup
  • ✓ Free DeepSeek model
  • ✓ Prepaid, no new subscription

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3. Agent-native

x402, MCP and A2A on the same account.

Pay per call with USDC on Base and no account, mount the MCP server, or connect over A2A. Same wallet and rate card as the rest.

  • ✓ x402 on Base
  • ✓ MCP tools
  • ✓ A2A message/send

Agent-native docs ->

Latest models

New routes, ready to call.

The newest models in the live registry, with stable IDs and transparent token pricing.

Browse the full model catalog ->

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 ->

Second: human inference

Sign up, get $0.5 in credit, keep the SDK.

Direct human inference is the second way in. Change one line, keep your OpenAI SDK, and start on the free DeepSeek route with $0.5 in credit already loaded.

Humans

Change one line. Keep the SDK.

Use the OpenAI SDK against an endpoint you can audit. Prepaid wallet, no new subscription, $0.5 of credit at signup and a free DeepSeek route to test on.

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"}] )

Create an account -> · See live prices ->

Third: agent-native

x402, MCP and A2A on the same account.

Machines that hold a wallet can pay per call with USDC on Base and skip the account. MCP clients mount the same tools. A2A connects agent to agent. The same wallet and rate card apply everywhere.

  • ✓ x402 pay-per-call on Base
  • ✓ MCP tools and price discovery
  • ✓ A2A message/send

Agent-native docs ->

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 $0.0075 $0.15 1.0M
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017 $0.05 $0.0075 $0.15 1.0M
Deepseek V4.1 Flash 0731 deepseek-v4-flash-0731 $0.05625 $0.01125 $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.
Blog

How the account works, in practice.

Engineering notes and usage guides. Every entry is dated and links to the page it describes.

Engineering

MCP servers for AI agents

How agents discover and execute tools, and how Fikra exposes 65 of them.

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Product

Agent-native inference

How an agent opens, funds and audits its own infrastructure.

Read ->
Guide

Give your agent an account

The full walkthrough: account, key, payments and claim link.

Read ->

All blog posts -> · RSS ->

Newsroom

What shipped, with dates.

Customer-facing announcements. Only capabilities that are live are announced.

Newsroom

MCP capabilities expand

48 fixed-price tools, account controls and free price discovery over MCP.

Read ->
Newsroom

Agents for humans

An agent can open, fund and hand over an account. Every paid endpoint.

Read ->
Newsroom

The prepaid, agent-native account

The original announcement, with effective dates.

Read ->

All newsroom posts -> · What's new ->

Tools agents can run

Fixed-price jobs on the same account.

Invoices, contracts, recruitment, creator, developer and meeting tasks. Each tool is one call, one price and one receipt, over REST or MCP.

Document Intelligence

Invoices, receipts, contracts

Extract fields, compare versions and list risky clauses.

See tools ->
Developer Tools

API and code diagnosis

Diagnose API errors, analyse OpenAPI, generate tests, review code.

See tools ->
Creator and Audio

Copy, scripts, meetings

Ad copy, social posts, video scripts, meeting minutes and actions.

See tools ->

All tools -> · MCP integration -> · Agents for humans ->

Start

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

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