OpenAI-compatible access to efficient flash-class models from about $0.15 per million tokens. Privacy-first, no hard rate limits, white-label ready, and built on ultra-low-cost desert power.
The same flash-class intelligence the big providers sell, on a structurally lower cost base, with terms built for builders rather than billboards.
Inference cost is dominated by electricity. We run on UAE desert energy at $0.10/kWh through our Liwa infrastructure, a cost floor most providers cannot touch.
We never train on your data. The sovereign tier runs no-logs on dedicated instances, and the roadmap keeps inference inside the Gulf for true data residency.
Fair-use throttling protects quality, not your wallet. No surprise caps mid-launch, and dedicated capacity the moment you need guaranteed throughput.
Change the base URL and the key. Your existing OpenAI SDK code, agents and tools keep working, no rewrite, no lock-in.
Serving the region from the region. As we migrate onto UAE infrastructure, Gulf users get the short ping that distant clouds cannot offer.
Resell under your own brand. Your customers, your prices, your portal, our cheap-power engine quietly underneath.
Join the beta and we issue an API key scoped to your account.
Keep your OpenAI SDK. Set the base URL to DesertGrid and pick a model.
Same request and response shapes. Pay per token, no hard limits, watch your cost drop.
from openai import OpenAI client = OpenAI( base_url="https://api.desertgrid.ai/v1", api_key="dg-your-key", ) resp = client.chat.completions.create( model="deepseek-v4-flash", messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Marhaba from the Gulf"}], ) # same shapes you already use. that's it.
We serve mixture-of-experts models that fire only a fraction of their parameters per token, the reason quality keeps climbing while price keeps falling. Roster grows with the beta.
Model availability and pricing track the open-model market and are confirmed at beta onboarding. OpenAI-compatible endpoints for chat, completions and embeddings.
Transparent, blended pricing that undercuts the major low-cost providers, because our power bill is lower, not because we are burning runway.
Approximate token allotments are illustrative, computed from the blended rate, and confirmed at checkout. Prices may change as the open-model market moves.
Soon, anyone will be able to list and monetize their own hosted model on DesertGrid. Bring a model or a GPU, plug into the cheapest power on the grid, and earn on every token served. We take a small platform fee and handle billing, keys, and routing.
Model quality converges and prices keep falling. When the marginal cost of a token approaches the cost of the electricity to produce it, the lowest-power provider wins. DesertGrid is built on that single idea.
Building a small AI compute business, or want the full thesis and unit-economics brief? Request the deck.
Early users get founder pricing, free tokens for feedback, and a direct line to the team. Tell us what you are building and we will get you a key.
Yes. Point any OpenAI client at our base URL and swap your API key. No SDK rewrite, change two lines and ship.
DesertGrid is privacy-first and PDPL-native. We do not train on your data, the sovereign tier runs no-logs on dedicated instances, and our roadmap migrates all inference onto UAE desert infrastructure for data residency in the Gulf.
Two reasons. We serve efficient mixture-of-experts flash models that activate only a fraction of their parameters per token, and we are built on ultra-low-cost UAE desert power at $0.10 per kWh through our Liwa infrastructure. Cheap power is a structural cost advantage, not a promotion that expires.
That is the marketplace. Hosts will be able to list and monetize their own models on our cheap-power infrastructure and earn on every token served, while DesertGrid handles billing, keys and routing for a small platform fee.
No hard caps by default. We use fair-use throttling to protect quality, and the sovereign tier gives you dedicated capacity with guaranteed throughput.
We are in private beta now. Join the waitlist for early access, founder pricing, and free tokens in exchange for feedback.