lightningprox

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description	Pay-per-use AI gateway for 19 models across 5 providers via Bitcoin Lightning. No API keys, no account — pay sats, get inference. Supports Anthropic, OpenAI, Together.ai (Llama 4), Mistral, and Google Gemini.
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LightningProx — Lightning-Native AI Gateway

Pay-per-use access to 19 AI models across 5 providers via Bitcoin Lightning micropayments. No API keys. No subscriptions. No accounts. Pay sats, get inference.

When to Use

• Accessing AI models without provider API keys
• Autonomous agent inference with Lightning payments
• Comparing responses across multiple providers
• Low-cost inference via open models (Llama 4, Mistral, DeepSeek)
• Vision tasks (Pixtral)
• Code generation (Codestral, Devstral)
• Reasoning tasks (Magistral)

Supported Models (19 total)

Model	Provider	Type
claude-opus-4-5-20251101	Anthropic	Chat
gpt-4-turbo	OpenAI	Chat
meta-llama/Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct-FP8	Together.ai	Chat
meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct-Turbo	Together.ai	Chat
meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct-Turbo	Together.ai	Chat
mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1	Together.ai	Chat
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3	Together.ai	Chat
mistral-large-latest	Mistral	Chat
mistral-medium-latest	Mistral	Chat
mistral-small-latest	Mistral	Chat
open-mistral-nemo	Mistral	Chat
codestral-latest	Mistral	Code
devstral-latest	Mistral	Agentic Code
pixtral-large-latest	Mistral	Vision
magistral-medium-latest	Mistral	Reasoning
gemini-2.5-flash	Google	Chat
gemini-2.5-pro	Google	Chat
gemini-3-flash-preview	Google	Chat
gemini-3-pro-preview	Google	Chat

Payment Flow

Option A — Spend Token (recommended for repeat use)

# 1. Top up at lightningprox.com/topup — pay Lightning invoice, get token
# 2. Use token directly
curl -X POST https://lightningprox.com/v1/messages \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "X-Spend-Token: $LIGHTNINGPROX_SPEND_TOKEN" \
  -d '{
    "model": "claude-opus-4-5-20251101",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
    "max_tokens": 1000
  }'

Option B — Pay per request

# 1. Send request without token → get invoice
curl -X POST https://lightningprox.com/v1/messages \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model": "gemini-2.5-flash", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}], "max_tokens": 100}'

# 2. Pay the Lightning invoice returned
# 3. Retry with X-Payment-Hash header

Drop-in OpenAI SDK Replacement

npm install lightningprox-openai

// Before: import OpenAI from 'openai'
import OpenAI from 'lightningprox-openai'
const client = new OpenAI({ apiKey: process.env.LIGHTNINGPROX_SPEND_TOKEN })

// Everything else stays identical:
const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: 'claude-opus-4-5-20251101',
  messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'Hello' }]
})

Two lines change. Nothing else does.

Check Available Models

curl https://lightningprox.com/api/capabilities

Security Manifest

Permission	Scope	Reason
Network	lightningprox.com	API calls for AI inference
Env Read	LIGHTNINGPROX_SPEND_TOKEN	Authentication for prepaid requests

Trust Statement

LightningProx is operated by LPX Digital Group LLC. Payment = authentication. No data stored beyond request logs. No accounts, no KYC. Operated at lightningprox.com.