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What is Lava?

Lava is an AI monetization platform that simplifies billing and payments for AI services. Stop wasting engineering cycles on billing infrastructure and focus on building your AI product.

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Two Products, One Platform

Lava Build

A developer-first API proxy with transparent metering, accurate usage tracking, and comprehensive logging.

Lava Monetize

Turn usage into revenue with prepaid wallets, pricing tiers, embedded checkout, and revenue analytics.

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Quick Overview

Lava acts as a transparent proxy between your application and AI providers. Instead of building billing infrastructure from scratch, you route API requests through Lava and let us handle:
  • Metering: Automatic usage tracking across 30+ AI providers
  • Billing: Prepaid wallets with flexible pricing models
  • Payments: Stripe-powered checkout with embedded flows
  • Analytics: Real-time revenue and usage dashboards
Your integration is simple - just change your API endpoint URL and add an authorization header. No complex SDKs required.
Lava supports OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, xAI, ElevenLabs, and 20+ more providers with less than 20ms added latency.

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Common Use Cases

Add usage-based billing to AI features without building payment infrastructure. Perfect for:
  • AI SaaS products (chatbots, document processing, code generation)
  • API marketplaces (multi-provider access, unified billing)
  • Developer tools (AI-powered IDEs, coding assistants)
  • Consumer applications (transparent pay-as-you-go pricing)

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Next Steps

Build Quickstart

Integrate Lava’s proxy in 5 minutes with step-by-step guide

Monetize Quickstart

Configure pricing and embed checkout to start earning revenue

Architecture

Understand how Lava’s transparent proxy works under the hood