How it works

Pikeway sits between your agent and hundreds of third-party APIs. Your agent finds the right endpoint, checks what it needs and costs, calls it, and pays only when the call succeeds.

Three steps: discover, inspect, run

Every way of connecting (MCP, CLI, SDK, HTTP) follows the same loop. Your agent never needs to know a provider's URL or sign up for its plan.

1

Discover

Describe what you need in plain words, like “token price on solana”. Pikeway returns matching endpoints ranked by relevance, reliability and price. Free, no key needed.

2

Inspect

Before spending anything, look at one endpoint's input schema, an example input and its exact per-call price. Also free.

3

Run

Call the endpoint with structured input. Pikeway forwards the request to the provider, returns the response unchanged, and records the cost of that call.

The loop, from a terminal

pikeway discover -q "token price on solana"     # free
pikeway inspect  -p birdeye -e /defi/price      # free: schema + price
pikeway run      -p birdeye -e /defi/price -i '{"address":"So11111111111111111111111111111111111111112"}'

One key, one balance

You top up a single balance and create API keys in Console → API Keys. A key looks like pk-… and works for every API in the marketplace. Send it as Authorization: Bearer pk-….

Each endpoint has a fixed per-call price, shown in the marketplace and returned by discover and inspect.
Every response carries X-Pikeway-Cost (what this call cost, in USD) and X-Pikeway-Call-Id (look it up in your usage logs).
Give each agent or project its own key so you can track and revoke them separately.

Only successful calls are charged

If the provider answers with a 2xx status, the call is billed at its listed price. Anything else (bad input, provider errors, timeouts) costs nothing, and the response says so with X-Pikeway-Cost: 0.

This is what makes it safe to let an agent experiment: a wrong guess at the parameters doesn't cost you anything.

Test for free with mock responses

Swap /gw/ for /mock/ and the gateway returns the endpoint's example response instead of calling the provider. No key, no charge, rate-limited per IP. Handy while you wire up parsing.

bash

curl https://gw.pikeway.ai/mock/dexscreener/latest/dex/search?q=WBTC

Pick how to connect

For AI agents

Skill

One file that teaches your agent when and how to use Pikeway.

MCP

Give any MCP client the whole marketplace as tools.

For developers

CLI

Discover, inspect and run from a shell.

HTTP API

Plain HTTP with your key.

SDK

TypeScript and Python clients.