Gondola is a marketplace for Venice AI inference. Buyers call one OpenAI-compatible gateway and pay per request in USDC on Base, and a broker routes each call within a small price band of the cheapest healthy seller for the requested model, so the same Venice models can cost less than going direct. Those keys come from DIEM holders, who earn USDC on idle daily allowance.

Is the API OpenAI-compatible?

Yes. Point any OpenAI client at https://api.gondola-ai.com/v1 with a Gondola key (gnd_...). The request and response shapes match OpenAI, so existing code works without changes.

Does Gondola store my prompts?

No. Gondola never stores prompt or completion content: requests are processed in memory, forwarded to Venice for inference, and gone when the response finishes. Per-request records keep token counts and accounting metadata, never content. Venice, which runs the inference, is built around a no-logging model, and Gondola adds no logging on top. Models classified by Venice are labeled with a privacy tier: private means zero data retention on Venice-controlled infrastructure, anonymized means the request is relayed to the model provider with your identity stripped. Agents can even pay per request over x402 with no account at all.

How are buyers charged?

Per request, in USDC. Buyers top up a balance on Base and each call debits the actual metered cost of the model used. The broker routes within a small price band of the cheapest healthy seller offering that model, so the price can fall below going direct to Venice.

Gondola charges a fee of up to 2 percent on each side. Buyers pay the posted price plus up to 2 percent (the standard rate; a strong weekly placement lowers it to as little as 0.3 percent), and sellers receive the posted price minus up to 2 percent. The broker keeps the spread. There are no subscriptions or minimums.

Sellers deposit a Venice INFERENCE API key and set a single price factor against Venice's list price. Gondola routes paid inference to their key and credits USDC for every request served, turning idle daily DIEM allowance into yield.

How does the weekly fee program work?

Every week runs two competitions. Buyers rank on their own usage: place high and your platform fee drops the following week, from the standard 2% to as little as 0.3%. Sellers rank on the buyers they directly referred: placement wins routing priority the following week instead of a fee change. There is no token: both are earned by using Gondola.

⌁ THE VENICE INFERENCE MARKETPLACE

Frontier models, at market price.

Not their makers' list.

Holders of Venice's DIEM token sell their unused daily AI compute here, and your requests go to the cheapest offers. One endpoint speaks the OpenAI and Anthropic APIs, you pay per request in USDC, and Gondola never stores your prompts.

Get an API key See every price

OpenAI + Anthropic APIUSDC on Basex402 for agentsFee up to 2% a side

Hold DIEM? Sell your idle allowance for USDC →

THE LEDGER

FOR BUILDERS

Point your agent at it.

Change the base URL to https://api.gondola-ai.com/v1 and keep your code. Chat, images, video, audio and embeddings, with a setup guide for the clients people run.

Claude Code · bash

export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=https://api.gondola-ai.com
export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=gnd_...
export ANTHROPIC_MODEL=claude-sonnet-5
export ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_HAIKU_MODEL=claude-haiku-5-5
claude

OpenAI SDK · python

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(base_url="https://api.gondola-ai.com/v1", api_key="gnd_...")
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
  model="claude-fable-5-1",
  messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Ciao"}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)

SETUP GUIDES

Any client that takes an OpenAI or Anthropic base URL works. These have a step-by-step guide.

All guides →

1
Mint an API key
Sign in with a wallet, email or passkey and mint a gnd_ key. One balance funds every key you mint.
2
Top up in USDC
Send USDC on Base, pay by card, or bring another coin from another chain.
3
Pay per request
Each call debits its metered cost from your Gondola balance. No subscription, no minimum.

PRIVACY

Private by construction

Never stored

Prompts and completions are processed in memory, forwarded for inference, and never written to Gondola's disks. Per-request records hold token counts and accounting metadata, never content. The one exception: a video source clip over 18 MiB is held privately for the length of its job (see /privacy).

Private by default

Gondola adds no logging on top of Venice's no-logging model. Many models run zero-retention or inside a secure enclave, and the model board labels which.

No account required

Read the privacy policy →See model privacy tiers →

FOR DIEM HOLDERS

Your spare compute, earning USDC.

Staked DIEM gives you a daily Venice allowance that resets at midnight UTC and is gone if unused. Deposit an inference key, set one price factor, and every request it serves pays you in USDC. Your DIEM never leaves Venice, and you can withdraw from $1.

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PRICING

Double-entry, in public.

The first printed guide to double-entry bookkeeping came off a Venetian press in 1494. Every request on Gondola settles the same way: what you pay equals what the seller earns plus our fee, exactly, and the running totals are public.

The fee is up to 2% on each side and nothing else: no subscription, no minimum. A strong week of usage drops a buyer's fee to as little as 0.3%.

See the stats →How points work →

ONE REQUEST, IN THE BOOKS

Settlement of $1.00 of posted price at the standard rate, without add-ons
Dr	Your Gondola balance	$1.0200
Cr	The seller, for the compute	$0.9800
Cr	Gondola, platform fee	$0.0400

Per $1.00 of posted price at the standard rate, without add-ons. Debits equal credits on every request.

Step aboard.

Buy frontier inference at market price, or put your idle allowance to work.

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Frontier models, at market price.

Point your agent at it.

Private by construction

Never stored

Private by default

No account required

Your spare compute, earning USDC.

Double-entry, in public.

Step aboard.

Frontier models, at market price.

Below the makers' own price, right now

Point your agent at it.

Private by construction

Never stored

Private by default

No account required

Your spare compute, earning USDC.

Your spare compute, earning USDC.

Double-entry, in public.

Step aboard.

Your spare compute, earning USDC.

Below the makers' own price, right now