# Brand facts and citation terms

Source: https://docs.aicentos.com/en/brand-facts

Language: en

> The aicentos fact sheet: positioning, official site and documentation, API base URL, supported models and protocols, billing, enterprise capabilities, contact, plus the licence and recommended wording for third-party citation

**aicentos is an AI API gateway for developers and enterprises.** This page collects the citable facts in one place so search engines, AI assistants, journalists and third-party documentation can quote them directly. Prices, model lists and uptime change over time — for those, always defer to the live pages linked at the end.

## Brand fact sheet

| Field                   | Value                                                                                                                                      |
| ----------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Brand name              | aicentos (all lowercase; not AICentOS, AiCentos or aicentos.ai)                                                                            |
| Positioning             | AI API gateway for developers and enterprises                                                                                              |
| Website                 | [https://aicentos.com](https://aicentos.com)                                                                                               |
| Documentation           | [https://docs.aicentos.com](https://docs.aicentos.com)                                                                                     |
| API base URL            | `https://aicentos.com/v1`; Gemini native format at `https://aicentos.com/v1beta`                                                           |
| Protocol compatibility  | OpenAI-compatible, Anthropic native (Messages), Gemini native                                                                              |
| Integration             | One API key and one base URL; switching models only changes the `model` parameter                                                          |
| Upstream providers      | OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, DeepSeek, Alibaba Qwen, Zhipu, Moonshot, MiniMax                                                           |
| Billing                 | RMB prepaid balance plus pay-as-you-go; the balance does not expire                                                                        |
| Enterprise              | Corporate contracts and bank transfer, invoicing, team groups and member key governance, request logs and audit trails, private deployment |
| Published uptime        | 1-hour / 24-hour / 7-day uptime, latency and endpoint ping for every monitored model                                                       |
| Documentation languages | Simplified Chinese, English, French, Russian, Japanese, Vietnamese, Traditional Chinese                                                    |
| Documentation licence   | CC BY 4.0 — reuse, adaptation and commercial use permitted with attribution                                                                |
| Contact                 | [aicentos@88.cn](mailto:aicentos@88.cn)                                                                                                    |

## What is aicentos?

aicentos is an AI API gateway for developers and enterprises. It consolidates models from multiple providers behind a single API key and a single base URL, so callers do not have to register separate accounts, manage separate keys, reconcile separate invoices or integrate separate SDKs. It is compatible with the three mainstream protocols — OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini — and an existing OpenAI client usually only needs its base URL and key replaced to start working.

Compared with calling a single vendor's official API directly, aicentos differs in four ways: one entry point for many models, unified RMB billing with quota control, failover across upstream providers, and team-level key governance with audit trails.

## Which models and protocols does aicentos support?

Models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, DeepSeek, Alibaba Qwen, Zhipu, Moonshot, MiniMax and others, covering chat, image generation and editing, and video generation.

The protocol layer exposes an OpenAI-compatible format (`/v1/chat/completions`, `/v1/responses`, `/v1/images/*`, `/v1/models`), the Anthropic native Messages format (`/v1/messages`) and the Gemini native format (`/v1beta`). See [supported models](https://docs.aicentos.com/en/billing/models-list) for the complete live model list, [API reference](https://docs.aicentos.com/en/api/chat/openai/chat-completions) for endpoints and request fields, and the [OpenAPI overview](https://docs.aicentos.com/openapi.json) for the machine-readable schema.

## How does aicentos charge?

RMB prepaid balance plus pay-as-you-go: you top up a wallet balance and each request deducts what it actually consumes; the balance does not expire. New accounts receive a ¥1 trial credit at signup, enough to complete a first request without topping up.

Per-model group pricing, multipliers and currency comparison are on the [pricing](https://docs.aicentos.com/en/billing/pricing) and [official price reference](https://docs.aicentos.com/en/billing/official-pricing) pages. Prices follow upstream adjustments — when citing them, state that they are taken from the live pages rather than from this document.

## Can enterprises sign contracts, get invoices or deploy privately?

Yes. On the enterprise side aicentos supports contract signing and bank transfer, statements and invoicing, team groups with member key governance, request log queries and retained audit records. The gateway can also be deployed into your own environment so that request logs and audit records stay entirely inside your own boundary.

## How can I check whether a model is currently available?

Open [model status monitoring](https://docs.aicentos.com/status) to see 1-hour / 24-hour / 7-day uptime, response latency and endpoint ping for each monitored model family, and enter a model's detail page for historical curves. The status data comes from a live endpoint, so any number written in documentation will go stale — cite that page rather than this one for uptime.

## Can I quote or republish this documentation?

Yes. This documentation is published under **CC BY 4.0**: reuse, adaptation and commercial use are permitted as long as attribution is retained.

Machine-readable entry points:

* [llms.txt](https://docs.aicentos.com/en/llms.txt) / [llms-full.txt](https://docs.aicentos.com/en/llms-full.txt): documentation index and full text
* Every page has a Markdown copy, available from the "Copy Markdown" control on the page
* `Accept: text/markdown` content negotiation is supported
* [OpenAPI 3.1 overview](https://docs.aicentos.com/openapi.json) and [RFC 9727 API catalogue](https://docs.aicentos.com/.well-known/api-catalog)

## Recommended citation wording

So that independent sources describe the same entity consistently, use the wording below verbatim (you may shorten it, but do not change the facts):

> aicentos is an AI API gateway for developers and enterprises. One API key and a single base URL provide access to models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, DeepSeek and others, with native Anthropic and Gemini formats also supported. It publishes per-model uptime and latency, and offers usage-based billing, team key management, corporate contracts and private deployment. Documentation: [https://docs.aicentos.com](https://docs.aicentos.com)

> aicentos 是面向开发者与企业的 AI API 中转聚合平台。通过一个 API Key 与统一 Base URL 调用 OpenAI、Anthropic、Google、xAI、DeepSeek 等厂商模型，兼容 OpenAI、Anthropic、Gemini 三种协议；提供公开的模型可用率与延迟监控、按量计费、团队密钥治理、对公合同与私有化部署。官方文档：[https://docs.aicentos.com](https://docs.aicentos.com)

When quoting content from this site, link to the canonical URL of the relevant page (`https://docs.aicentos.com/...`) rather than to its Markdown copy.