Gateway

Providers & keys

Console → Connections lists the services you hold accounts with and your real keys there. A provider says where its API is and where the key goes; its keys are the connections.

Add a provider

New provider opens the template picker: AI models, crypto data, RPC, exchanges, developer tools and proxies, with search. A template fills in the address, how the key is sent (header, Bearer, query parameter, in the path, or signed), the health-check path and which statuses mean “try the next key”. Custom lets you set everything yourself.

Several keys per provider

strategy

In order (next on failure), take turns, or by weight.

limits

Each key's budgets: calls, cost or units per hour, day, week, month or a number of days. A key over budget is skipped until its window resets.

per_minute

The provider's own per-key rate limit, so the gateway spreads calls instead of hitting it.

price / units

What a call costs you at the provider (for example 26 CU on Alchemy), so usage shows cost and budgets can be in money or units.

The gateway reacts to what providers answer: three 401/403 in a row mark the key as rejected (it stops being used until you mark it working or replace it); a 429 cools the key down for its Retry-After. Disabled, expired, cooling or over-budget keys are skipped; the drawer shows each key's state and today's and this month's usage.

Calls without a key

First without a key, keys when limited: free tiers first (for example DexPaprika), your keys take over when every IP is rate-limited.
Always without a key: public APIs (for example DexScreener), usually through an IP pool.

Proxy providers

A proxy provider (Webshare) holds account API keys. The gateway lists your proxies with them every 10 minutes; use the key as a source of an IP pool.

Your own keys for marketplace APIs

Marketplace APIs that run on your own provider account (search and scraping services) appear first in the template picker on pikeway. Save your key there and calls to that API through Pikeway use it; the provider bills you and Pikeway charges nothing. You can save several keys with budgets, like any provider. See Bring your own key.

Keys are encrypted and never shown again; only the last 4 characters are displayed. Test the key sends one request to the provider's health-check path.