FlowBar AI is a public AI API gateway: one OpenAI-compatible endpoint for accessing chat, image, video, and reasoning models with transparent USD pay-as-you-go billing.
Use Chinese high-value models first, keep GPT, Claude, and Gemini as premium routes, and control spend in USD.
Route cost-sensitive workloads to Chinese models, reserve GPT, Claude, and Gemini for premium tasks, and keep everything OpenAI-compatible.
Designed for global products that want strong Chinese model capability, coding, reasoning, and multilingual output at practical costs.
Keep the three major overseas model families available for high-stakes reasoning, long context, and enterprise compatibility.
Transparent USD pricing, trial credits, and discounted routes help teams test more models without runaway spend.
Keep your existing SDK and switch only the base URL.
Manage model usage from one account with transparent USD pricing.
SSL, rate limiting, and routing safeguards for everyday workloads.
# Your OpenAI-compatible endpoint
export OPENAI_BASE_URL="https://api.flowbarai.com/v1"
export OPENAI_API_KEY="sk-your-flowbar-key"from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://api.flowbarai.com/v1", api_key="sk-xxx")
# Chat model
chat = client.chat.completions.create(model="qwen3.6-plus", messages=[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}])
# Image model
image = client.images.generate(model="qwen-image-2.0", prompt="A beautiful sunset")New users get $5 trial credits valid for 30 days. Minimum top-up starts at $5.