Any LLM API+Faro

One key for everything the raw LLM API can't do.

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

to match one chat app

Wire it yourself

  • OPENAI_API_KEY
  • PERPLEXITY_API_KEY
  • BRAVE_API_KEY
  • DATAMERGE_API_KEY
  • GOOGLE_API_KEY

5 vendors · 5 invoices

With Faro

  • OPENAI_API_KEY
  • FARO_API_KEY

your model · 1 prepaid balance

Friction → Faro

What the chat app hid from you, the API hands back as homework

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

Web search is a metered bolt-on, per provider

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

Search behind one Bearer, results you can quote

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

No image, video, or voice in the text API

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

Image, video, voice — one call away

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

Parity means assembling five vendors yourself

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

One credential, no integration sprawl

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

One workflow, a fistful of invoices

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

Pay per call, one prepaid balance

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

First reach parity, then go past it

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

The batteries the chat apps include

  • Web search & real-time news
  • Image generation
  • Video generation
  • Voice / text-to-speech
  • Page fetching & structured scraping

Layer 2 · Beyond

Paid data no chat app can reach

  • Company firmographics
  • Contact & lead enrichment
  • Apify scraping actors
  • Audio generation & narration
  • Financial, weather & domain data

Quick start

Drop it in alongside your existing API call

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"}}'
Full reference: REST · CLI · Quickstart · OpenAPI

From parity to beyond

Everything your API call can't do, in one place

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

Stop assembling vendors. Ship the feature.

One account. One Bearer token. Every capability your raw API call is missing — and the data it never had. Pay-as-you-go in credits.