AI API for Agencies in India | unoblox
How Indian agencies run AI work for multiple clients on one rupee-billed API — client cost tracking, GST invoicing, and model choices.
An agency running AI-powered work for several clients at once has a billing problem before it has a technical one: separate accounts per client, a card or invoice in a different currency for each provider, and no single place to see what a given client's usage actually cost. unoblox collapses that into one rupee-billed account with one OpenAI-compatible endpoint (https://api.unoblox.ai/v1) and a single monthly GST invoice, no matter how many underlying model providers a project touches.
The agency billing problem
A typical agency serving five clients with AI features might otherwise need five separate provider relationships, five sets of usage dashboards, and manual work at month-end to figure out what to bill each client. None of that maps cleanly to Indian accounting, where you want one vendor, one GST invoice with input-tax-credit, and usage broken out in rupees, not a currency you then have to translate for a client invoice.
One key, many clients
Issue a separate API key per client or per project under the same unoblox account. Each key can be scoped to specific models and rate limits, and usage against each key is tracked separately, so you can see exactly what "Client A's chatbot" or "Client B's content pipeline" consumed without spinning up separate billing relationships. All of it still settles through the same rupee balance and the same monthly invoice.
Costing client work in rupees
Because every model is priced per 1M tokens in rupees, estimating a client project is a matter of multiplying expected volume by the published rate — no conversion step. A rough sense of range across tiers:
| Model | Input (₹/1M) | Output (₹/1M) | Typical fit |
|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 9.07 | 18.14 | high-volume, low-cost client workloads |
| Llama 4 Scout | 10.08 | 30.24 | general drafting and support tasks |
| GPT-5 mini | 25.2 | 201.6 | balanced client-facing assistants |
| Claude Opus | 504 | 2520 | premium deliverables where quality is the priority |
Models not shown — GPT-4o mini, Mistral Small, Nemotron, and others — are all usable the same way; pull live ₹ rates from /models before quoting a client.
Invoicing and input tax credit
unoblox bills your agency in rupees on a single monthly GST invoice from an Indian entity, which your finance team can claim input tax credit against like any other vendor bill. You still decide how to mark up and re-bill each client — unoblox gives you one clean vendor invoice to build that on top of, instead of reconciling several providers' statements.
Frequently asked questions
Can I keep each client's usage separate for billing them back? Yes — issue one API key per client or project, and track usage per key. Your consolidated invoice from unoblox is still one document, but your internal usage split is clean.
Do I need an international card to serve clients whose end-users are outside India? No — your unoblox billing itself stays in rupees regardless of where your client's end-users are; that's separate from whatever your own contract with the client says.
Is data from different clients kept separate? Requests are processed per API call; keeping client workloads logically separate in your own systems (separate keys, separate prompts) is good practice, and unoblox's per-key usage tracking supports that separation.
Do external models like GPT or Claude keep client data in India? No — for third-party models, the India benefit is rupee billing, one GST invoice, one endpoint, and no international card, not Indian data residency. Only unoblox's own small hosted models, like the free Qwen3 1.7B, run end-to-end on Indian infrastructure.
Can I resell or white-label unoblox access to my clients? unoblox bills you as the account holder; how you package and price that for your own clients is your commercial decision.
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Call every major model through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, billed in ₹ on a GST invoice.