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Avian

Fast, affordable AI inference API for developers and enterprises

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Avian is an AI inference API platform that gives developers and enterprises fast, affordable access to frontier open-source LLMs. It uses a pay-per-token model with no subscription, runs on NVIDIA B200 GPUs with speculative decoding, and is SOC 2 approved on Microsoft Azure. The API is OpenAI-compatible, supports vision, web search, and tool calling, and retains zero prompt or completion data.

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