Half-Price AI API: One Key for 19 Models (Claude, GPT, Gemini, DeepSeek)

itsmeadityabro-del — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 09:49:05 +0000

Most AI models cost the same whichever API you use. MiniStaff API charges half the official price on every model, through one key and one prepaid wallet.

50% off, on every model

Model	MiniStaff (in / out per 1M tokens)	Official (in / out)
Claude Sonnet 5.5	$1 / $5	$2 / $10
Claude Opus 5.5	$2 / $10	$4 / $20
GPT-6 Sol	$1 / $5	$2 / $10
Gemini 3.8 Flash	$0.375 / $1.875	$0.75 / $3.75
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash	$0.075 / $0.30	$0.15 / $0.60

That is 19 models in total, including Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok and DeepSeek. A $25 top-up becomes $26.25 of credit, which is about 200M tokens on DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (at a 3:1 input to output mix) versus about 95M at official prices.

How it works

One API key for all 19 models.
Prepaid USD wallet, no subscription meter. When the wallet reaches $0 the key pauses, and the same key resumes after a top-up.
Bonus credit on bigger top-ups: +5% at $25, +10% at $50, +15% at $100.
Two compatible endpoints at https://api.ministaff.pro/v1: OpenAI-compatible (/chat/completions) and Anthropic-compatible (/messages), plus GET /models.

Get started in four steps

Sign in with Google at https://app.ministaff.pro/login.
Create an API key in the dashboard.
Top up your wallet, from $10 to $100.
Call the API. Use GET /v1/models to see the exact model IDs.

curl https://api.ministaff.pro/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer msst_YOUR_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "<model-id from /v1/models>",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Say hello in one line."}]
  }'

Based in India?

You can top up with UPI, with no international card needed. The tiers start at ₹950 for $10.

Everywhere else, pay by card.

Limits and what we store

60 requests per minute per account, and up to 10 keys per account.
MiniStaff stores billing metadata, not prompt or response content.
A live usage dashboard lists every call by model, tokens and cost.
Top-ups are non-refundable once credited, so start small.

Is it for you?

It fits if you pay per token and want the same models at half the meter. It is not a fit if you need an SLA, more than 60 requests per minute, or enterprise compliance terms.

Docs: https://ministaff.pro/docs
Support: support@ministaff.pro

I gave my AI its own computer. Here's what happened.

itsmeadityabro-del — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 06:03:06 +0000

The chat window wasn't enough

For the last year, my AI workflow looked like this: open a tab, brief the AI, watch it work, keep the tab alive, copy the output somewhere useful, close the tab — and watch everything stop. Next day, new session, half the context gone, brief it again.

Three pains kept repeating:

The meter. Paid tiers, usage caps, the low-grade anxiety of rationing a tool I wanted to lean on.
The tab. Close it and the work stops. Nothing — literally nothing — happens overnight.
The goldfish. Every session starts over. The AI is brilliant and has no idea who I am by tomorrow.

ChatGPT and Claude are excellent at thinking with you in the moment — I want to say that plainly, because it's true and because what I built isn't a replacement for that. But the moment I wanted work done — overnight, unattended, reported back — a chat window was the wrong form factor. I didn't need a smarter chat. I needed a staffer.

What I built

MiniStaff Agent is an AI agent with its own computer.

It's professionally configured before it ever starts — set up right, tuned and tested — and it lives on a real machine of its own: files, a terminal, persistent memory, scheduled jobs. It codes, ships, creates, and deploys. It also does research, documents, and general knowledge work.

There are two homes for it:

Its own cloud computer — always on. ₹1,999 / ₹3,999 / ₹7,999 a month depending on size.
Your own computer — ₹999 a month. Cheaper, and honest about the trade: it runs when your computer runs.

It ships with free AI models, ready to work — nothing extra to buy. If you want more, you bring your own ChatGPT or Claude sign-in, or your own API keys, and switch anytime. And the economics are the point: MiniStaff never meters usage. Unlimited usage, one flat price. The only limits are your own provider's rate limits.

When it finishes something, it doesn't sit in a dashboard waiting for you. It messages you first — Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, or email.

What mine actually does all day

I run my own work on my own agent daily. A normal day looks like:

Overnight: research runs and builds finish while I sleep. Yesterday's open loops get worked, not just listed.
Morning: the results are in my messages. A deployed page. A finished competitor comparison. A week of content, drafted.
Daytime: I assign jobs between other things — "draft this," "check that," "build the small tool" — and it works them like a queue, not a conversation.
Evening: scheduled jobs fire on their own. I review an approval batch instead of doing the producing myself.

The honest summary: it's not smarter than the AI you're already using. It's the same class of intelligence, given a desk, a memory, and a night shift. The finishing is the feature.

The offer this week

MiniStaff launched this week, and I'm running a Founding 10: the first 10 customers lock today's price forever. Prices will rise as this grows; theirs won't. If you want to kick the tyres first, the cloud plan has a ₹699 first week.

Everything's here: https://ministaff.pro

Honest lessons so far

This is the part most launch posts skip, so:

I have zero customers. This article is not a victory lap. It's a starting gun. The product is live and I use it daily — that is the entire proof I can honestly offer today.
The recipe is not the product. Anyone can install an agent. Almost nobody wants to spend their weekend configuring one, breaking it, and fixing it. "Set up right, maintained for you" turned out to be the actual thing people ask me about.
Distribution is harder than the build. The product took weeks. Getting the first ten strangers to trust it will take longer, and no feature I ship changes that. This post is part of that work.
Flat pricing is a bet. Unlimited usage at one flat price only works if the economics underneath are structured right. I believe they are — and the Founding 10 will be the first real test of that belief.
Dogfooding cuts both ways. My agent helped plan this launch, which is a great demo — and also means I notice every flaw in it before anyone else does. Both keep me honest.

What I'd love from you

If you're a builder: what would you hand an agent like this on day one? And if the answer is "nothing, because..." — that "because" is the most valuable thing you can give me. I reply to everything personally.

— Aditya, maker of MiniStaff

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