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Measured on six things

The cheapest AI gateway and API with free models for code, text, and images.

Design

Dark cheese-themed UI with a strong yellow accent and clear hero CTA. Undermined by a cookie modal covering content, tiny low-contrast subtext, and a 12-bullet 'WHY?' wall with no visual hierarchy.

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OpenCheese AI

About this app

OpenCheese is a cheap AI gateway and AI API with free models for code, text, and image generation. It gives developers affordable, low-latency access to frontier AI models across OpenAI, Claude Opus, Gemini, and DeepSeek with one API key, up to 95% discounts, transparent token accounting, 100% anonymity, and crypto payments.

Key features

1One API key across OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, DeepSeek and more via OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible endpoints
2Free models plus subscription tiers with included balance and a credits option
3DNS-over-HTTPS, anti-sniffing, no data training, crypto payments and email-only retention

Target customer profile

Drawn from the product itself, not from a survey.

Scout Review

Written by AI from measured evidence, scored out of 100.

OpenCheese AI is a cheap multi-provider AI gateway with a genuinely fast site (Lighthouse 99/100 both mobile and desktop) and unusually good docs for an early-stage product. The pricing model — subscription tiers with included balance, plus a credits option — is legible, and the OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible endpoints mean developers can point existing clients at it without rewrites. The weak spots are the landing page (cookie modal covering content, dense bullet walls, buried CTA) and the security story (no CSP, no published audit). Growth is plausible but not guaranteed: the wedge is real, the moat is not.

Measure by measure

Usability

Docs are genuinely solid: key creation, base URLs, auth, model listing, curl and Python examples, plus .md versions of every page. Pricing is legible. The landing page buries the CTA under a wall of text.

Design

Dark cheese-themed UI with a strong yellow accent and clear hero CTA. Undermined by a cookie modal covering content, tiny low-contrast subtext, and a 12-bullet 'WHY?' wall with no visual hierarchy.

Speed

Lighthouse 99/100 on both mobile and desktop: LCP 1.8s, CLS 0, TBT 2ms, FCP 920ms. Genuinely fast, no lag complaints in the collected evidence.

Security

HTTPS enforced with HSTS, frame protection, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy, SPF and DMARC all set; 10/12 on the header probe. CSP is missing and no SOC 2/ISO/pen-test claim appears on the site.

Accessibility

Lighthouse accessibility 100/100 with one failing audit on accessible-name matching. ENG/RUS/DEU switcher present; no WCAG statement or a11y page found in the collected content.

Growth

Real problem (token costs), real wedge (one key, OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible, free models, crypto). But 'cheap gateway' is a crowded lane and the discount model is copyable. Domain is ~0.4 years old.

Improvement areas

Cookie modal covers page content on first load; hero subtext and logos are low-contrast
No CSP header and no published SOC 2, ISO, pen-test or bug-bounty information
Landing page buries the CTA under long copy and a 12-item bullet wall with no hierarchy

Design & Usability

The design is competent but cramped: a dark cheese-themed shell with a strong yellow CTA, then a cookie modal that sits on top of the 'FROM THE CHEESE' section, tiny low-contrast subtext, and a twelve-item 'WHY?' list with no hierarchy. Usability is the stronger half — the docs are actually good, with a full quickstart, base URLs for both OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs, curl and Python examples, and Markdown versions of every page. Pricing is legible across four tiers. The gap is the landing page: the primary CTA sits below a long paragraph and the nav has no visible active states, so the path from 'interested' to 'signed in' is longer than it needs to be.

Speed & Security

Speed is the standout: Lighthouse 99/100 on mobile and desktop, LCP 1.8s, CLS 0, TBT 2ms, FCP 920ms. That's a genuinely snappy site with no lag complaints in the collected evidence. Security is solid but not exceptional: HTTPS with HSTS, frame protection, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy, SPF and DMARC all present, 10/12 on the header probe. The missing piece is CSP, and there's no SOC 2, ISO, pen-test or bug-bounty claim anywhere on the site — for a product handling API keys and crypto payments, that's the gap worth closing first.

Accessibility & Growth

Accessibility scores 100/100 on Lighthouse with a single failing audit around accessible names, and the site offers ENG/RUS/DEU. There's no WCAG statement or a11y page, so the automated score is doing all the talking. Growth is the interesting question: the problem is real (token costs are a genuine pain), the wedge is specific (one key, OpenAI and Anthropic-compatible endpoints, free models, crypto payments, up to 95% discounts), and the target — developers wiring OpenCode, Claude Code, Codex, Zed, LobeHub — is concrete. But 'cheap gateway' is a crowded category and discount pricing is trivially copyable. The domain is roughly four months old, so this is an idea with a wedge, not yet a moat.

Conclusion

If you're a developer already paying retail for tokens and you want one key across OpenAI, Claude, Gemini and DeepSeek, this is worth a test run — the docs will get you to a first request in minutes. Go in with eyes open: it's a young product, the security posture is good-but-not-audited, and the '95% discount' claim is the kind of thing you verify on your own invoice before you move production traffic. Fix the cookie modal, publish a security page, and this moves from 'interesting' to 'recommended'.

Suggestions for improvement

Fix the cookie modal so it doesn't cover the 'FROM THE CHEESE' section on first load.
Add a CSP header and publish a security page with audit or pen-test status.
Raise hero subtext and provider logo contrast; they're hard to read at default zoom.
Break the 12-item 'WHY?' list into grouped sections with headers and whitespace.

How we score

Alternatives comparison

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	OpenCheese AI
Pricing model	Tiers at $9.99/$47.99/$99.99 per month with included balance, plus a pay-as-you-go credits option	Not provided in app details
API compatibility	OpenAI-compatible (/v1/chat/completions) and Anthropic-compatible (/v1/messages) endpoints	Not provided in app details
Free models	4 free models listed across all tiers	Not provided in app details
Anonymity & payments	Crypto payments, DNS-over-HTTPS, anti-sniffing, no data training, email-only retention	Not provided in app details
Documentation	Full quickstart with base URLs, auth, model listing, curl and Python examples, Markdown versions	Not provided in app details