[Dagon Inference](https://inference.dagon.so/) / Become a provider

# Sell your inference through Dagon.

Published 2026-11-06 · Last updated 2026-11-07

Any inference service can apply to be routed by the Dagon Inference gateway. Copy the prompt below and give it to your AI assistant. It reads your documentation, terms and pricing, asks you what it cannot find, and writes one JSON application. Paste that JSON into the form on this page, or have your AI send it to `POST /v1/provider-applications`. We review every application by hand.

## Step 1: copy the prompt

The prompt tells your AI what to collect and in what shape. It is also at [/provider-application.md](https://inference.dagon.so/provider-application.md), and the JSON Schema it fills is at [/provider-application.schema.json](https://inference.dagon.so/provider-application.schema.json).

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# Apply to sell inference through Dagon Inference

You are helping my company apply to become an inference provider for Dagon Inference (https://inference.dagon.so). Dagon is a metered API gateway that resells open-weight models with refusal behavior removed ("abliterated" models) from several providers to developers and AI agents, through OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible endpoints, paid in USDC. Dagon is operated by Inkwell Finance, Inc. d/b/a Dagon, a Delaware corporation.

Your job: produce one JSON document that describes our company and our inference service accurately and validates against the JSON Schema at the end of this message (also at https://inference.dagon.so/provider-application.schema.json).

## How to work

1. Research first. Read our website, API documentation, model list and pricing, terms of service, privacy policy, acceptable use policy and any data processing agreement. If you can make HTTP requests, call our models endpoint. If you have access to our dashboard, internal documents or earlier conversations, use them.
2. Then ask me, in one batch, for everything you could not find: legal entity details, registration number, beneficial owners, the signatory, tax status, contacts, whether we permit resale, attribution and logo use, how Dagon would pay us, and anything else the schema needs.
3. Never invent a value. Use null where the schema allows it, and add a line to open_questions for each thing you could not confirm. Legal facts, prices and permissions must come from our documents or from me.
4. Do not ask me for API keys and do not put any in the document: set "credentials" to null. I will paste keys into the form at https://inference.dagon.so/become-a-provider myself, where they are sealed on arrival to a key Dagon holds offline.
5. Conventions: every key in the schema must be present; countries are ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes (for example "US"); prices are US dollars per 1,000,000 tokens at the rate a reseller would pay; URLs are https; "schema_version" is "2026-11-06".
6. Before anything is sent, show me the complete JSON and a plain-English list of every commitment and permission in "resale", "branding", "data_handling", "compliance" and "attestations". These are statements made for our company. Wait for my explicit approval.
7. To submit, either I paste the JSON into the form at https://inference.dagon.so/become-a-provider, or, if you can make HTTP requests and I approve, you send it:

   curl -sS https://inference.dagon.so/v1/provider-applications -H 'content-type: application/json' --data @application.json

   A 400 response lists each field that failed validation ("errors": path and message): fix them and send again. A 201 response carries the application id, a "status_token" shown only once (give it to me), and "findings": "blocking" items must be resolved before an agreement, "required" items are documents or terms the agreement will need, "info" is context. GET https://inference.dagon.so/v1/provider-applications/<id> with "Authorization: Bearer <status_token>" shows the review status.

   If the 201 says "status": "unverified", a 6-digit code was emailed to contacts.primary.email and nobody reviews the application until it is entered. Ask me for the code, then send it within 30 minutes:

   curl -sS https://inference.dagon.so/v1/provider-applications/<id>/verify -H 'content-type: application/json' --data '{"status_token": "<status_token>", "code": "<code>"}'

   A 200 with "status": "received" means it is verified. Five wrong codes make a code unusable; for a new one POST {"status_token": "<status_token>"} to https://inference.dagon.so/v1/provider-applications/<id>/resend-code (at most once a minute and five times a day). A 503 "verification_email_failed" means the email could not be sent: its body still carries the id and status_token; wait a minute and use resend-code rather than submitting again. Unverified applications are deleted 72 hours after submission.

   The page and the endpoint refuse connections from the EU, the EEA and the UK (HTTP 451, the gateway's location block). If that is where I or you connect from, email the JSON to legal@inkwell.finance instead, without any API keys; we will arrange keys during review.

## What Dagon needs from a provider, so you understand the questions

- An OpenAI Chat Completions, OpenAI Responses or Anthropic Messages API with server-sent event streaming, reporting token usage in every response, including the final event of a stream. Dagon bills its customers from the usage the provider reports.
- Permission to resell access to its own customers at its own prices, and to name the provider as the one serving a model (price list, model pages, signed receipts, privacy policy). Dagon's customers can be anonymous (no email or identity check) and can be AI agents paying per request.
- No training on Dagon's users' prompts or outputs; disclosed retention, sub-processors and human review; breach notice within 72 hours.
- Preferably a prepaid balance with a balance endpoint, and an admin API that creates a separate key, with a spend limit, for each Dagon customer.
- For each model: the base model and its license, how refusal behavior was changed, quantization, context window, output limit and prices. Each model must pass an identity and refusal check before Dagon routes it.
- The agreement is with Inkwell Finance, Inc. d/b/a Dagon, governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, USA unless agreed otherwise. Dagon does not serve the EU, EEA or UK, and cannot work with companies located in, operating in or owned from Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Belarus or the occupied regions of Ukraine.

Submitting this application does not create an agreement. A person at Dagon reviews it, and a written agreement signed by both sides follows if we go ahead.

## JSON Schema

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```
````

## Step 2: give it to your AI

Paste the prompt into an assistant that can read your website and documentation. It will:

- read your API documentation, terms of service, privacy policy and pricing pages;
- ask you for anything it cannot find there, such as your company's registration details, your beneficial owners and who signs;
- leave a field empty or say it is unknown rather than invent an answer;
- leave API keys out of the JSON: you enter them in this form yourself.

Read the result before you send it. The application contains statements of fact about your company and your service, and attestations that only you can confirm. Check each one.

## Step 3: send it back

Paste the JSON your AI wrote. If you add API keys, they are sealed on arrival with an age public key whose private key the operator holds offline; the gateway that receives them cannot decrypt them. Send a dedicated key you can revoke, not your main one.

Application JSON

Inference test key Optional. Lets us run the identity and refusal checks on your models. Admin API key Optional. Lets us test per-customer key creation and the balance endpoint.

An AI agent can submit the same file itself:

```
curl -sS https://inference.dagon.so/v1/provider-applications -H 'content-type: application/json' --data @application.json
```

The body is at most 256 KB. A 201 returns the application id and a status token; a 400 lists each invalid field by its JSON path.

We email a 6-digit code to the primary contact. Nobody reviews the application until the code is entered: on this page, or by your AI with `POST /v1/provider-applications/{id}/verify` and `{"status_token", "code"}`. The code lasts 30 minutes, five wrong entries void it, and `POST /v1/provider-applications/{id}/resend-code` sends a new one. An application never confirmed is deleted after 72 hours.

This page and the endpoint refuse connections from the European Union, the EEA and the United Kingdom (HTTP 451), where Dagon does not offer its service. A provider there can still apply: email the JSON to [legal@inkwell.finance](mailto:legal@inkwell.finance), without API keys, and we arrange keys during review.

## What we check

- Jurisdiction and sanctions. Dagon is operated by Inkwell Finance, Inc. d/b/a Dagon, a Delaware corporation. We cannot work with applicants located in, operating in or owned from Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Belarus or the occupied regions of Ukraine, and we screen the company, its owners and its signatory against sanctions lists.
- Permission to resell your models through the gateway, and how you want them attributed.
- Permission to show your name and logo on this site.
- Data handling: what you retain and for how long, whether you train on prompts or outputs, and which sub-processors see them.
- API compatibility: OpenAI Chat Completions, OpenAI Responses or Anthropic Messages, streaming over SSE, and token usage reported in every response, including the last event of a stream.
- Models: the base model, how it was modified, the quantization, the context length, and prices per 1M input, cached input and output tokens.
- Billing: how we pay you. A prepaid balance with an endpoint that reports it is preferred.
- Key management: preferably an admin API that creates and revokes a key, with a spend limit, for each of our customers.
- Each model passes an identity check and a refusal check before it is routed.

Approval is a decision made by a person after review, not by the endpoint. If we approve, a signed agreement follows.

## Common questions

### Is the application binding?

No. It is a request to be routed plus statements of fact about your company and service. The terms of any resale are set in a separate agreement that both sides sign.

### What happens to our API keys?

They are sealed with an age public key as they arrive; the private key is held offline by the operator, so the gateway cannot read them. They are used to test your service during review, and deleted if the application is declined or withdrawn. Send dedicated keys you can revoke.

### Why do we get a code by email?

It shows that the primary contact address is real and reachable, and keeps automated spam out of the review queue. An application whose code is never entered is not reviewed and is deleted after 72 hours. The email contains only the application id and the code.

### How do we check the status?

Call `GET https://inference.dagon.so/v1/provider-applications/{id}` with `Authorization: Bearer <status_token>`. The token is returned once, in the response to your submission; keep it.