I'm the founder of Scalattice, this is my second company, third total product. I'm a 2x founder building some challenging software, some easy software, and some curiosity based tools that I've just always wanted to be a part of!
So here is Scalattice.
Scalattice is an OpenAI-compatible inference API. You keep the OpenAI SDK, swap base_url + API key, and call open models (Qwen3, Llama 3.3 70B, Gemma 3, DeepSeek R1, etc.). Inference is performed by a provider node on our distributed network of consumer hosted inference machines, we run an open source agent (https://github.com/scalattice/scalattice-agent) which works in Rust to run the inference and get the provider paid.
In short, anyone can become a provider, offer up their machine with our Windows/Linux Rust agent, and earn some extra cash, or start a farm of machines to make big bucks.
I decided to build some innovative behavioural traits to the API for higher performance/security: 1. output vetting - Scalattice Cloud vets the response against replica responses requested on the API header N times. 2. security tiers - Using some split inference, the job is completed in chunks by multiple providers and in part by Scalattice Cloud hypervisor for added security/privacy (at an additional cost) 3. regional policy - I know how important data residency is to developer clients (from my experience with Digital ID Infrastructure) and so I built the platform to let developers specify the region for inference.
We pay our providers a majority share (Currently 80%) of every token spent by the developer.
We currently back the network with a failover of our own company machines which ensures we never drop a request.
If you want to give it a try in a couple of minutes, we are currently running a "Top Up $10 for UNLIMITED QWEN3" for an entire month of API calling, (terms and conditions apply).
If you want to give it a try in a couple of minutes:
1. Create a key at [https://scalattice.cloud/developers](https://scalattice.cloud/developers)
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Use the copy-paste snippet on the linked post
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Live rates: https://scalattice.com/pricing Or, if you want to be a provider (We are really keen to onboard people and get them earning):
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Create a machine at https://scalattice.cloud/providers
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Download our Windows app, or use our on-page instructions to curl the agent installation script for Linux.
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Attach a provider token to the app or Linux agent from the Machine created on the website.
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Control the machine from the website, select which models you want to offer, and the physical hardware components to use for inference and the hours of operation.
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Earn!
Happy to take feedback - especially on DX, pricing clarity, and what would make you try this instead of Together / Fireworks / OpenRouter / Salad etc.
This is my first time posting on HN, please let me know if you think the product has potential, there are obviously trade-offs with non-datacentre inference (latency, capability of cards), but I think this could serve a decent amount of developers very well, because not everyone needs H100 cards for their inference.
Thanks again.
Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49055093](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49055093)
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