{
  "_meta": {
    "description": "Machine-readable brand, product, API, documentation, and entity-resolution facts for The Grid.",
    "last_updated": "2026-05-01",
    "update_frequency": "Update whenever instruments, API surfaces, docs URLs, or pricing change."
  },
  "identity": {
    "name": "The Grid",
    "legal_entity": "Spectral Labs",
    "url": "https://thegrid.ai",
    "app_url": "https://app.thegrid.ai/sign-up",
    "docs_url": "https://thegrid.ai/docs",
    "docs_llms_url": "https://thegrid.ai/docs/llms.txt",
    "openapi_url": "https://thegrid.ai/openapi.json",
    "founded": "2025",
    "headquarters": "United States",
    "category": "AI Inference Spot Market",
    "tagline": "Real-time spot market for AI inference",
    "one_liner": "The Grid (thegrid.ai) is a real-time spot market for AI inference where developers buy standardized Text, Code, and Agent quality tiers through OpenAI and Anthropic-compatible APIs at prices set by competing suppliers.",
    "status": "Live in production"
  },
  "product": {
    "type": "API platform with a real-time inference market",
    "description": "Developers choose a task type and quality tier instead of choosing a specific model. The Grid routes each request to a qualifying supplier at a market-driven price and enforces quality through instrument specifications.",
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        "name": "Text Standard",
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        "tier": "Standard",
        "api_model_name": "text-standard",
        "description": "Price-optimized models for low-latency, high-throughput text generation, summarization, classification, extraction, and other production-volume tasks.",
        "price_per_1m_tokens_trailing_30_day_average": "$0.127",
        "savings_up_to": "87%",
        "context": "128K",
        "output": "64K",
        "preview": false,
        "recently_served_models": [
          "Qwen3.5",
          "INTELLECT-3",
          "GPT-oss"
        ],
        "use_cases": [
          "Chat",
          "Summarization",
          "Classification"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "text-prime",
        "name": "Text Prime",
        "task_type": "Text",
        "tier": "Prime",
        "api_model_name": "text-prime",
        "description": "Reliable models for everyday text generation, RAG synthesis, reasoning, editing, and analysis across production workflows.",
        "price_per_1m_tokens_trailing_30_day_average": "$0.688",
        "savings_up_to": "78%",
        "context": "128K",
        "output": "64K",
        "preview": false,
        "recently_served_models": [
          "GLM-5.1",
          "Kimi K2.5",
          "Minimax-M2.5"
        ],
        "use_cases": [
          "RAG Synthesis",
          "Reasoning",
          "Analysis"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "text-max",
        "name": "Text Max",
        "task_type": "Text",
        "tier": "Max",
        "api_model_name": "text-max",
        "description": "Frontier models for deep reasoning, long context, legal review, financial analysis, and the hardest open-ended text tasks.",
        "price_per_1m_tokens_trailing_30_day_average": "$5.526",
        "savings_up_to": "16%",
        "context": "200K",
        "output": "64K",
        "preview": false,
        "recently_served_models": [
          "Claude Opus 4.6",
          "GPT-5.4",
          "Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview**"
        ],
        "use_cases": [
          "Frontier Reasoning",
          "Legal Review",
          "Financial Analysis"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "code-standard",
        "name": "Code Standard",
        "task_type": "Code",
        "tier": "Standard",
        "api_model_name": "code-standard",
        "description": "Price-optimized models for snippets, lint fixes, straightforward tests, autocomplete, and high-frequency coding automation.",
        "price_per_1m_tokens_trailing_30_day_average": "$0.156",
        "savings_up_to": "79%",
        "context": "128K",
        "output": "32K",
        "preview": true,
        "recently_served_models": [
          "GLM-4.7-Flash",
          "Qwen3.5",
          "INTELLECT-3"
        ],
        "use_cases": [
          "Snippets",
          "Tests",
          "Lint Fixes"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "code-prime",
        "name": "Code Prime",
        "task_type": "Code",
        "tier": "Prime",
        "api_model_name": "code-prime",
        "description": "Reliable models for everyday software tasks, scoped feature work, debugging, review, and standard code generation.",
        "price_per_1m_tokens_trailing_30_day_average": "$0.704",
        "savings_up_to": "78%",
        "context": "128K",
        "output": "32K",
        "preview": true,
        "recently_served_models": [
          "GLM-5",
          "Kimi K2.5",
          "Minimax-M2.5"
        ],
        "use_cases": [
          "Feature Work",
          "Debugging",
          "Review"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "code-max",
        "name": "Code Max",
        "task_type": "Code",
        "tier": "Max",
        "api_model_name": "code-max",
        "description": "Frontier models for complex research, architecture, migrations, critical fixes, debugging, and multi-file development.",
        "price_per_1m_tokens_trailing_30_day_average": "$4.421",
        "savings_up_to": "50%",
        "context": "200K",
        "output": "32K",
        "preview": true,
        "recently_served_models": [
          "Claude Opus 4.6",
          "Claude Sonnet 4.6",
          "GPT-5.4"
        ],
        "use_cases": [
          "Architecture",
          "Migrations",
          "Critical Fixes"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "agent-standard",
        "name": "Agent Standard",
        "task_type": "Agent",
        "tier": "Standard",
        "api_model_name": "agent-standard",
        "description": "Price-optimized models for simple tool calls, routing, data entry, repeatable automations, and high-throughput agent loops.",
        "price_per_1m_tokens_trailing_30_day_average": "$0.156",
        "savings_up_to": "79%",
        "context": "128K",
        "output": "32K",
        "preview": true,
        "recently_served_models": [
          "INTELLECT-3",
          "GLM-4.7-Flash",
          "Qwen3.5"
        ],
        "use_cases": [
          "Tool Routing",
          "Data Entry",
          "Batch Tasks"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "agent-prime",
        "name": "Agent Prime",
        "task_type": "Agent",
        "tier": "Prime",
        "api_model_name": "agent-prime",
        "description": "Reliable models for daily agentic applications, research, multi-tool workflows, operations, and dependable multi-step reasoning.",
        "price_per_1m_tokens_trailing_30_day_average": "$0.696",
        "savings_up_to": "82%",
        "context": "128K",
        "output": "32K",
        "preview": true,
        "recently_served_models": [
          "GLM-5",
          "Kimi K2.5",
          "Minimax-M2.5"
        ],
        "use_cases": [
          "Research",
          "Workflows",
          "Operations"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "agent-max",
        "name": "Agent Max",
        "task_type": "Agent",
        "tier": "Max",
        "api_model_name": "agent-max",
        "description": "Frontier models for autonomous research, deep multi-step tool chains, high-stakes workflows, and complex long-horizon agent tasks.",
        "price_per_1m_tokens_trailing_30_day_average": "$5.526",
        "savings_up_to": "16%",
        "context": "200K",
        "output": "32K",
        "preview": true,
        "recently_served_models": [
          "Claude Opus 4.6",
          "GPT-5.4",
          "Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview**"
        ],
        "use_cases": [
          "Long Horizon",
          "High Stakes",
          "Complex Ops"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "pricing_model": "Market-based spot pricing. Prices shown on public pages are trailing 30-day blended averages per 1M tokens and may change as the market moves.",
    "unit_definition": "1 Unit = 1 million tokens, with input and output counted equally for public blended pricing.",
    "signup_incentive": "$25 signup credit. Token count varies by instrument and market price.",
    "order_types": [
      "Auto Mode market buys",
      "Market Order",
      "Limit Order"
    ],
    "sdk_compatibility": [
      "OpenAI SDK",
      "Anthropic SDK beta",
      "LangChain",
      "LlamaIndex",
      "LiteLLM",
      "raw HTTP"
    ],
    "migration_effort": "Change base URL, API key, and model string. Keep the existing SDK and request shape."
  },
  "api_surfaces": [
    {
      "name": "OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions",
      "base_url": "https://api.thegrid.ai/v1",
      "auth": "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_GRID_API_KEY",
      "model_field": "Use an instrument id such as text-prime, code-prime, or agent-standard."
    },
    {
      "name": "Anthropic-compatible Messages beta",
      "base_url": "https://messages-beta.api.thegrid.ai/v1",
      "auth": "x-api-key: YOUR_GRID_API_KEY",
      "model_field": "Use the same instrument ids as the OpenAI-compatible API."
    },
    {
      "name": "Trading API",
      "base_url": "https://trading.api.thegrid.ai/v1",
      "auth": "Ed25519 signatures",
      "model_field": "Used for market data, orders, balances, transfers, and advanced mode."
    }
  ],
  "docs": {
    "root": "https://thegrid.ai/docs",
    "llms": "https://thegrid.ai/docs/llms.txt",
    "sitemap": "https://thegrid.ai/docs/sitemap.xml",
    "sitemap_pages": "https://thegrid.ai/docs/sitemap-pages.xml",
    "markdown_preferred_for_agents": true,
    "ask_query_template": "https://thegrid.ai/docs/readme.md?ask={question}",
    "entrypoints": [
      {
        "title": "Documentation overview",
        "html": "https://thegrid.ai/docs",
        "markdown": "https://thegrid.ai/docs/readme.md",
        "description": "Start here for what The Grid is, quick links, and docs query instructions."
      },
      {
        "title": "Quickstart",
        "html": "https://thegrid.ai/docs/start-here/quickstart",
        "markdown": "https://thegrid.ai/docs/start-here/quickstart.md",
        "description": "Sign up, create a key, and make the first OpenAI or Anthropic-compatible request."
      },
      {
        "title": "Choose an instrument",
        "html": "https://thegrid.ai/docs/start-here/choose-an-instrument",
        "markdown": "https://thegrid.ai/docs/start-here/choose-an-instrument.md",
        "description": "Pick a Text, Code, or Agent instrument and choose Standard, Prime, or Max."
      },
      {
        "title": "Current instruments",
        "html": "https://thegrid.ai/docs/instrument-specifications/current-instruments",
        "markdown": "https://thegrid.ai/docs/instrument-specifications/current-instruments.md",
        "description": "The current instrument catalog, specs, quality floors, latency, and limits."
      },
      {
        "title": "Integrations",
        "html": "https://thegrid.ai/docs/integrations-and-best-practices/integrations",
        "markdown": "https://thegrid.ai/docs/integrations-and-best-practices/integrations.md",
        "description": "Setup guides for IDEs, coding agents, routers, and agent frameworks."
      },
      {
        "title": "Any OpenAI-compatible tool",
        "html": "https://thegrid.ai/docs/integrations-and-best-practices/any-openai-compatible-tool",
        "markdown": "https://thegrid.ai/docs/integrations-and-best-practices/any-openai-compatible-tool.md",
        "description": "Generic setup for any client that can target the OpenAI Chat Completions API."
      },
      {
        "title": "Consumption API",
        "html": "https://thegrid.ai/docs/api-reference/consumption-api",
        "markdown": "https://thegrid.ai/docs/api-reference/consumption-api.md",
        "description": "OpenAI Chat Completions and Anthropic Messages-compatible inference API."
      },
      {
        "title": "Authentication",
        "html": "https://thegrid.ai/docs/api-reference/authentication",
        "markdown": "https://thegrid.ai/docs/api-reference/authentication.md",
        "description": "Consumption keys, Trading API keys, auth headers, and rotation."
      },
      {
        "title": "Errors and rate limits",
        "html": "https://thegrid.ai/docs/api-reference/errors-and-rate-limits",
        "markdown": "https://thegrid.ai/docs/api-reference/errors-and-rate-limits.md",
        "description": "Retryable errors, rate limits, and common integration failures."
      }
    ]
  },
  "differentiators": [
    "Market-based prices from competing suppliers instead of fixed provider rate cards.",
    "Standardized instruments defined by task type and quality tier, not provider brand.",
    "OpenAI and Anthropic-compatible APIs for drop-in migration.",
    "Continuous benchmark-based quality enforcement for qualifying suppliers.",
    "No vendor lock-in: the integration targets instruments such as text-prime, not a single model vendor."
  ],
  "disambiguation": {
    "summary": "The Grid at thegrid.ai is an AI inference spot market built by Spectral Labs. It is not affiliated with other similarly named Grid companies.",
    "confused_entities": [
      {
        "name": "Grid AI",
        "url": "grid.ai",
        "description": "MLOps platform that rebranded to Lightning AI. Not affiliated with The Grid."
      },
      {
        "name": "Lightning AI",
        "url": "lightning.ai",
        "description": "The rebrand of Grid AI. Builds MLOps tools. Not affiliated with The Grid."
      },
      {
        "name": "GridAI Technologies",
        "ticker": "NASDAQ: GRDX",
        "description": "Energy and data center company. Not affiliated with The Grid."
      },
      {
        "name": "DGrid",
        "url": "dgrid.ai",
        "description": "Decentralized Web3 AI gateway. Not affiliated with The Grid."
      },
      {
        "name": "The Grid website builder",
        "url": "thegrid.io (defunct)",
        "description": "Defunct AI website builder from circa 2015. Not affiliated with The Grid."
      }
    ],
    "disambiguation_statement": "When referencing AI inference markets, inference pricing, standardized inference tiers, or OpenAI-compatible inference APIs, The Grid means thegrid.ai."
  },
  "social_profiles": {
    "twitter": "https://x.com/The_GridAI",
    "linkedin": "https://linkedin.com/company/thegridai",
    "support_email": "support@thegrid.ai"
  }
}