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API Gateway for Model APIs (10k req/s) Rate Limiting + WAF / DDoS Protection for Model API SDK Registry (npm, PyPI, Maven Central) Documentation Hosting (ReadMe, Mintlify, Docusaurus) Code Sample / Playground Hosting (AI Chat Playground) Artifact Registry for SDK Binaries & Container Images Feature Flags for API Versions & Rollouts Evaluation Harness (LangSmith, Promptfoo, Braintrust) Monitoring for LLM Calls (Helicone, Langfuse, Portkey) Logging for Prompts & Completions (Prompt Logging) Secrets Management for Provider Keys (LLM API Keys) Vector Database for Docs Search & RAG Eval Search for API Docs (Algolia, Typesense) Background Jobs for Async Evals & Batch Inference Webhooks + Event Bus for Eval Completion & Callbacks Billing / Metered Usage for API (Stripe Billing) Customer Support / Ticketing (Intercom, Plain for DevTools) Uptime Monitoring for Model API Endpoints Status Page for API Incidents Options and prices come straight from our research sheets for a small scale developer tools project. Prices are estimates and change often — always confirm on the provider's page before committing. 