Create an app

1. Open the account

Sign in at ellisekiz.ai/login with Google, Apple, Microsoft or GitHub. There is no password to manage and no separate developer account: the same identity owns the dashboard, the balance and the API.

2. Fund the balance

Generations are prepaid. Add funds on the billing page — one-off top-ups or a monthly plan that credits your balance on each renewal. One dollar of balance is one dollar of provider spend; there is no markup and no credit abstraction.

3. Choose how requests are routed

Under account → routing you decide who picks the provider for a request that does not name one:

• Cheapest first — the default. The router takes the lowest USD offer for the model.
• Provider priority — an ordered list; the first provider that serves the model wins.
• Per-model pins — a specific provider for a specific model, overriding both of the above.

Any request may still override the account policy with a provider field. See routing and BYOK.

4. Bring your own provider keys (optional)

If you already have a fal.ai, Replicate, Atlas Cloud or OpenRouter key, store it under account → provider keys. Requests that can use your key are billed to your upstream account instead of your ElliSekiz balance — currently with no platform fee. Keys are encrypted at rest and never returned by the API.

5. Mint a token and call the API

curl https://ellisekiz.ai/api/v1/models \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer esk_..."

Token creation is covered on the next page. One token per app or environment is a good habit: revoking a leaked staging token then costs you nothing in production.