Build on OpenAI or Anthropic and you only get tokens. Faro hands your app search, media generation, and paid data behind a single credential — no juggling a vendor, key, and invoice per capability.
Works with any provider · Pay-as-you-go credits · Refunds on failure
Wire it yourself
OPENAI_API_KEYPERPLEXITY_API_KEYBRAVE_API_KEYDATAMERGE_API_KEYGOOGLE_API_KEY5 vendors · 5 invoices
With Faro
OPENAI_API_KEYFARO_API_KEYyour model · 1 prepaid balance
Friction → Faro
The seamless experience in Claude.ai and ChatGPT is a bundle of services you now have to assemble, auth, and pay for one by one.
The friction
Claude.ai and ChatGPT search the live web for you. On the API it's a separate server tool you opt into and meter — Anthropic bills web search at $10 per 1,000 searches on top of tokens — and every provider's tool is wired and priced differently.
Faro's answer
Web search, real-time data, and structured scraping all sit behind one endpoint. Pick the publisher by intent, get raw structured results back, and pay one prepaid balance — no per-provider tool config.
The friction
The chat apps generate images, render video, and read replies aloud. The completion endpoint returns tokens — for pixels or audio you reach for an entirely different service, with its own SDK, console, and bill.
Faro's answer
Search the marketplace for the capability (“generate a product image”, “narrate this script”) and invoke the best fit. Faro fronts the upstream providers; you never touch their consoles or invoices.
The friction
To match what one chat app does out of the box, you stitch together a search API, an image API, a voice API, a scraper, and an enrichment service — each its own onboarding, auth, retry logic, and failure mode.
Faro's answer
Talk to one HTTPS endpoint and one Bearer token. Add a capability by searching the marketplace, not by signing up for another vendor. The same token works on your laptop, in CI, and across your team.
The friction
Every bolt-on you add is another contract, another minimum, another monthly statement to reconcile. Costs are scattered across dashboards with no single view of what a given run actually cost.
Faro's answer
Prepaid credits, a displayed price per tool, and refunds on failed results. Every call has a known cost drawn from one balance — not a debit against five opaque pools.
Two layers, one endpoint
Faro matters even for the basics — just getting your API call to the level of the chat apps. Then it goes past them: paid data and third-party sources no chat app sells, on the same Bearer token.
Layer 1 · Parity
Layer 2 · Beyond
Quick start
Keep your model and SDK as-is. When a prompt needs something the raw API can't do, search Faro and invoke — over REST, from Python, or the faro CLI.
# search the marketplace for the capability your API call is missing
curl "https://api.askfaro.com/tools/search?q=generate+an+image+of+a+coffee+mug"
# invoke it with the same Bearer you'd use for anything else on Faro
curl -X POST "https://api.askfaro.com/invoke/<namespace>/<tool>" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $FARO_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"arguments": {"prompt": "coffee mug on a wooden table"}}'import os, requests
FARO = "https://api.askfaro.com"
headers = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['FARO_API_KEY']}"}
# your model returns text; Faro covers everything it can't do natively
hits = requests.get(f"{FARO}/tools/search", params={"q": "generate a product image"}).json()
tool = hits["results"][0]["id"] # e.g. "fal-flux/text-to-image"
out = requests.post(
f"{FARO}/invoke/{tool}",
headers=headers,
json={"arguments": {"prompt": "coffee mug on a wooden table"}},
).json()
print(out["output"])# one-time install (requires Python 3.11+)
pip install askfaro-cli
faro auth login # paste your faro_ key
# whenever a prompt needs something the raw API can't do
faro search "narrate this script in a warm female voice"
faro invoke <namespace>/<tool> --params '{"text": "..."}'From parity to beyond
Each one is a single search + invoke — no extra accounts, no extra keys.
“Get the latest news on Tesla's Q1 earnings and quote the figures”
Resolved via brave-search
“Generate a product image of a coffee mug on a wooden table”
Resolved via fal-flux
“Narrate this 90-second script in a warm female voice”
Resolved via elevenlabs
“Find firmographics and a contact for the VP of Sales at a target account”
Resolved via datamerge