Introduction
What is Relai?
Relai is the rate desk for AI inference. Lock today's per-token price in USDC, then route through an OpenAI-compatible gateway — settled through your Solana wallet.
Instead of paying volatile spot rates and juggling cards and revocable keys, you prepay compute at a fixed rate and spend it whenever you want. Point any OpenAI-compatible client at Relai and your balance meters down per token as inference runs.
The short version
- Lock a rate. Buy a prepaid compute balance at a fixed $/M-token price on the marketplace.
- Pay in USDC. Top-ups settle on-chain to the Relai treasury and credit your balance.
- Route anything. The gateway speaks the OpenAI API — SDKs, LangChain, Cursor, all work by swapping the base URL.
- Own your access. Auth is a wallet signature. No intermediary sets your price or revokes your key.
Plainly: Relai is prepaid, locked-rate access to LLM inference, paid in USDC and metered per token. It is infrastructure, not a financial product.