Introducing Yaha AI Gateway

Every engineering team shipping AI features eventually hits the same wall: API keys scattered across repos, unpredictable bills, and no single place to see who is calling which model.

Yaha AI Gateway is our answer: an OpenAI-compatible gateway that sits between your apps and your model providers. Change your base URL, keep your SDK code, and gain one place to manage access, quotas, routing, and usage.

The problem with direct provider access

When each service holds its own provider key, you lose visibility fast. A background job in staging can burn through production budget. A new intern's experiment can call the most expensive model on the allowlist because nothing enforced a cheaper default.

Centralizing traffic through a gateway gives you one place to apply policy, track spend, and connect every client, from your backend to Cursor and Claude Code.

Drop-in compatibility

Yaha speaks the OpenAI HTTP API. That means existing clients work with a configuration change, not a rewrite:

curl https://gateway.yahagateway.io/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer yaha.your-project-key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "gpt-4o-mini",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello from Yaha"}]
  }'

Create a project API key in the console under Projects → API keys, point your SDK or agent at the gateway URL, and you are live.

What you get on day one

From the first request, Yaha gives you:

• Provider keys stay in Yaha, never checked into repos or pasted into agent configs
• Project-scoped API keys so each app or team has isolated access
• Usage logs with model, latency, and cost attribution in the console
• Model allowlists so projects can only call models you approve

That is the baseline. On top of it, Yaha adds smart routing and caching that reduce spend without forcing you to hand-tune every call site.

Built for teams, not just scripts

Solo developers can run Yaha locally or in the cloud in minutes. Platform teams get org-level RBAC, quotas, rate limits, and billing hooks when they need to govern dozens of projects.

We built Yaha because we wanted the speed of direct API access with the guardrails of an internal platform. If that resonates, start with a free account and route your next experiment through the gateway.

Ready to try it? Sign in to the console and create your first project key.