AI INFRASTRUCTURE FOR BUILDING COMPANIES

Build your AI product on infrastructure that grows with you.

Fikra API gives companies production-ready access to AI inference without forcing them into enterprise contracts. Start experimenting for $1, scale to reserved throughput when it matters.

Explore Growth & Scale → Start building Dashboard →
Self-serve from $1
Growth — $50/mo
Scale — $138/mo

One API. From first prototype to production.

Move from pay-as-you-go to reserved capacity without changing a single line of code.

For Experimentation

Self-serve

Starting at $1

  • → Pay as you go
  • → Shared rate limits
  • → M-Pesa or Card
Start building →
For Growing Companies RECOMMENDED

Growth

$50/mo

~ KES 6,500/mo platform fee

For companies running real AI products in production.

  • → 99.9% Uptime SLA
  • → 500 RPM Reserved
  • → 48h Support
Explore Growth →
For Business-Critical AI

Scale

$138/mo

~ KES 18,000/mo platform fee

When your AI workload cannot afford to be treated like an experiment.

  • → 99.95% Uptime SLA
  • → 2,000 RPM Reserved
  • → 24h Support + Slack
Explore Scale →

Your AI stack shouldn't become your bottleneck.

Multiple providers. Changing models. Increasing traffic. Rate limits. Unpredictable costs. Building a product is hard enough without also having to engineer and maintain a robust inference layer.

Fikra gives your team a single AI inference layer so you can focus on the product above it.

THE TRANSITION

You've outgrown experimentation.

You don't need Growth because you're big. You need Growth because your AI product is real. You can't afford to treat inference like an experiment anymore.

01

Your product has users.

Your AI infrastructure now directly affects your customers. Downtime is a business issue, not a technical curiosity.

02

Traffic is becoming unpredictable.

Shared limits are no longer acceptable for production workloads. You need guaranteed capacity when demand spikes.

03

Your team needs reliability.

You need an explicit SLA and someone accountable when something breaks.

Move to Growth.

$50 / month

99.9% SLA · 500 RPM reserved · 48h support

Start Growth →
MIGRATION

Already using OpenAI?
Don't rewrite your application.

Move your existing AI workload to Fikra without rebuilding your infrastructure. Fikra API is fully OpenAI-compatible. Any SDK, any language. Point your base URL to our endpoint and everything else stays the same.

Already running in production? Move that workload to Growth.

99.9% SLA · 500 RPM reserved · 48h support

Explore Growth → 
import openai

# Change just this line
client = openai.OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.fikraapi.co.ke/v1",
    api_key="your_fikra_key"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="fikra-fast-8b",
    messages=[{
        "role": "user",
        "content": "Analyze this dataset."
    }]
)
THE ADVANTAGE

Why companies choose Fikra

One infrastructure layer

Access multiple AI models and providers without building the routing, failover, and abstraction logic yourself.

Production commitments

Reserved throughput and explicit uptime SLAs that allow you to guarantee reliability to your own customers.

No enterprise contract

Get company-grade infrastructure and direct support without entering a heavyweight, multi-month enterprise procurement process.

Built to move with you

Start self-serve. Move to Growth. Move to Scale. Keep the exact same API and integration as your business expands.

ESCALATION PATH

When AI becomes mission-critical.

Your customers depend entirely on your AI features. Your traffic is growing rapidly. An inference outage is now a severe business problem, not just an inconvenience.

SCALE TIER

$138/mo

~ KES 18,000/mo platform fee

  • Uptime SLA 99.95%
  • Reserved Throughput 2,000 RPM
  • Support Access 24h + Direct Slack
  • New Models Priority Queue
Start Scale →

Built for teams moving fast.

AI Startups

Ship production AI without spending your limited engineering capacity building and maintaining a complex inference layer from scratch.

SaaS Companies

Add generative AI features to your core product without making your team responsible for managing multiple inference providers and failover limits.

Agencies

Run custom AI workloads for multiple clients through a single, predictable production infrastructure layer.

Engineering Teams

Get guaranteed reserved capacity, SLAs, and operational support without having to negotiate an enterprise procurement contract.

BUILT WITH INFRASTRUCTURE FROM
Safaricom / M-PESA
Paystack
Groq
Supabase

Documentation

Comprehensive guides on endpoints, streaming, function calling, and RAG architectures.

View Docs →

Status & Uptime

Transparent metrics on API latency, model availability, and historical uptime.

System Status →

Fikra Nano 1B

Our proprietary 1.58-bit ternary weight architecture optimized for edge environments.

Read the paper →

Ready to move beyond shared infrastructure?

Growth
$50 / month

For growing AI products with real users.

Start Growth →
Scale
$138 / month

For business-critical AI workloads.

Start Scale →

Not ready? Start self-serve from $1.