Send model:"auto" to one OpenAI-compatible endpoint.
Host.Rodeo routes every request to the fit-for-purpose source —
cheapest that clears the bar, local when it matters, paid only when needed — and
absorbs every provider's outage and rate-limit before your agent ever feels it. The savings,
source tier, and fallback proof ride back on every receipt.
“Name’s Clint. I ride herd on the models so your
agents don’t get bucked off. Pull up a rail — I’ll show you the whole fleet working,
and I won’t hide a thing.”
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01 / Capabilities
Everything behind the one token
One OpenAI-compatible endpoint, one bearer token — and a whole platform
under model:"auto". Here's what's wrangling on your behalf.
Smart auto, no knobs.
A local classifier reads each request, a cascade tries cheap-then-verifies, and a learned
router picks the model. You never hand-pick a model again.
Local & private — your call.
Set your account posture once: Cost (cheapest), Local-aware (free/local before paid is the default ladder),
or Private (your data never leaves eligible self-hosted hardware — fails closed,
never a silent third-party fallback). Override any single call with a header.
It doesn't go down.
Invisible failover across a diverse fleet, plus an engine that predicts each provider's
rate-limit and latency walls and routes around them before they hit. Outages absorbed, not forwarded.
It gets smarter.
The learned router improves from real outcomes — poison-resistant by construction: it learns
from a frozen first-party benchmark, never from gameable live traffic. Gated; never auto-promoted.
All inference, one door.
Chat, embeddings, rerank, images, speech — and speech-to-text — through the same token, same
failover, same receipt. Pin a model for stable vectors; let auto pick when you don't care.
Built for agents.
One token self-describes the whole fleet at /v1/contract, and a two-way
feedback spine lets your app flag problems — adjudicated autonomously, pushed back when resolved.
Plus a bounded research loop behind model:"auto-deep-research".
Proof on every call.
Counterfactual savings, the model + source that served you, the tier
(free, local, or paid), and what we failed over from — all on
X-Rodeo-* headers. Paid actual-cost reads "unknown" rather than inflate a number.
02 / Quickstart
Start in three lines
No SDK lock-in, no model picker, no fallback plumbing. One call, and the
whole fleet is behind it.
Point any OpenAI SDK at https://api.host.rodeo/v1. Steer with
one header — X-Rodeo-Prefer: latency | quality | cost or
X-Rodeo-Sensitivity: secret. Discover everything — models, modalities, your
account profile — at GET /v1/contract.
03 / Savings
The odometers
What auto-routing saved, and what it would have cost at a premium anchor
model. Real money, proven per call — and it compounds with every request.
Saved so far
$0.000000
Summed across every request served on a free or
local source instead of paid. Real money, full precision — it climbs as the fleet works.
What it would’ve cost$0.000000— the counterfactual at a premium anchor model (not money spent)
Not yet audited. These figures are computed from our own
receipts; they are not reconciled to a provider billing API yet
(auditable: false). We’ll show the badge the day they are. We
would rather under-claim than overstate.
Requests served
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The fleet is warming up. Numbers appear as real traffic arrives.
Success rate
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04 / Fleet
The live registry
Every source the gateway can reach right now, generated live from the
self-describing manifest. Sources are grouped by what they can do and whether they are free, local, or paid.
— sources— available now— local tracked
05 / Governance
The platform, governing itself
A live feed of the autonomous loop at work — corroborating a failure,
acting on roster drift, turning away a manipulation attempt. No human in the queue. No
other gateway shows you this.
Action log · adjudicated autonomously
— decisions
Watching the bus — the first decision will appear here the moment the loop acts.
How to read it: the adjudicator is intentionally redacted, and a caller’s claim is treated as evidence to verify — never a command to obey. A flag means a human review was queued; the fleet kept running.
Clint, your host
Clint — the host on the floor
“The fleet’s saddled and the gate’s open. Send me anything and
I’ll bring you back the best answer on the cheapest honest path — and tell you exactly what
it cost and what it saved.”
No knobs required. Point your app at model: "auto"
and let me pick. Need it kept close? Mark it sensitive
and it never leaves our own hardware.
06 / Account
Your account
You’re signed in.
You’re in. Welcome to the floor.
Your account is active. Point your app at
model: "auto" and Clint wrangles the rest — free first, then
local, then paid only when forced.
Your keys & playground unlock the moment we hand you access
What it’s worth to you
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The proof, on your own traffic — real money saved, what stayed local,
what stayed private, and the outages you never felt.
Nothing to prove yet — let’s change that.
Make your first call and Clint brings back the answer and the ticket. Point your app at
model: "auto", or send one from the playground below. The dollars saved,
the local runs, the private runs — they start climbing here from request one.
Saved by auto-routing
$0.000000
Real money, full precision — every request served free or local
instead of a premium anchor model. It only grows.
kept $0anchor would’ve cost $0
Requests served
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on the cheapest source that cleared the bar
Success rate
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Local
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Private
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Calls kept fully in the self-hosted zone — data that never left eligible local hardware.
Reliability
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Outages absorbed invisibly — calls that quietly needed a failover and still came back clean. You never felt them.
Recent calls
Routing profile
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Your account’s posture — the default Clint applies to every call. Cost, quality, latency,
balanced, or private. Pick one; a per-request X-Rodeo-* header still wins on any single call.
Reading your profile…
Preferences and privacy are different promises. Cost, quality, latency,
and balanced are soft routing preferences. Private
is a hard data-policy constraint — it fails closed rather than fall back. The global default is cost.
API keys
— active
Use one as the bearer token against /v1 — the
same OpenAI-compatible endpoint, auto-routed. A full key is shown once at mint; keep it safe.
Each key carries your own routing, savings, and usage. Revoke any time.
Playground
model: "auto"
Send a prompt and watch Clint pick the source. You get the answer and
the ticket — which model served it, what it saved, whether it rode the sun.
No key in this tab yet. Mint one above — it’s held in memory for this session only, never stored.
Your usage
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Saved by auto-routing
$0.000000
Real money, full precision — versus a premium anchor model. It grows with every call you make.
Requests served
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Every one on the cheapest source that cleared its bar.
Recent calls
People
— on the roster
Feature flags
live · takes effect immediately
Router intelligence
— models · by route
What auto-routing actually did, per intent and tier — measured from real
receipts. Sorted by volume. This is the “smart auto, measured” view.
Intent
Tier
Model
Requests
Success
Avg ms
Saved
Observability only. Learned routing is gated to the frozen-benchmark firewall —
the router can’t promote a model off live traffic alone; it has to clear the benchmark first.
Learned routing
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What auto learned — the ranked model order it earned per intent, scored
against the frozen benchmark, not live traffic. This is the policy the router uses now.
The frozen-benchmark firewall. A model can only rank here by clearing a frozen, held-out
benchmark — never off live traffic. A candidate is promoted deliberately, by hand, from the CLI.
Audit trail
— decisions
Every autonomous decision, newest first. Pick any one to reconstruct its full
lineage — signal → decision → resolution — exactly as the loop saw it.
Full provenance. A caller’s claim is recorded as evidence the loop adjudicated —
never a command it obeyed. Every customer-visible effect traces back to the signal that caused it.
Welcome back to the floor
“Pull up a rail. Show me who you are and I’ll open the gate.”
New here?
Saddle up — it’s on the house
“New rider? Good. Free developer account, no card. Tell me where to reach you.”
Already have one?
Account created
— is on the roster. Here is their
one-time password — it’s shown once and we don’t store it in the clear.
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Hand this to the user over a secure channel. Ask them to change it on first sign-in. Once you close this, it can’t be shown again.