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Build on Tempest.

Failure Tempest 1 speaks the OpenAI Chat Completions protocol. Point an existing client at our base URL, pick a model id, and you are done.

Not live yet. Failure Tempest 1 is waiting on its model lanes. Until every lane has its key, POST /v1/chat/completions returns 503 service_unavailable with the message “not live yet”. Everything on this page is the contract you can build against today. Check status for the live flag.

What you are calling

Failure Tempest 1 fuses four frontier models — Claude Fable 5.5, Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Astra 6.2 and Gemini 4 Argon — into one answer. Easy prompts stream straight from the best-fit model. Hard prompts get a pre-answer brief, several drafts written under different lenses, a fusion step that settles disagreements by checking, and an audit by a model that did not write the answer. You see one response. You pay for the tokens you send and receive, never for the drafts behind it.

Read API fusion for the full pipeline.

The basics

ThingValue
Base URLhttps://api.failure.fail/v1also https://failure.fail/v1
ProtocolOpenAI Chat Completions, streaming and non-streaming
AuthAuthorization: Bearer <key>or x-api-key: <key>
Modelsfailure-tempest-1-flash · failure-tempest-1 · failure-tempest-1-max
BillingPer token, estimated at ≈4 characters per token, with a monthly spend cap per key

Your first request

curl https://api.failure.fail/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FAILURE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "failure-tempest-1",
    "messages": [
      {"role": "system", "content": "You are a careful assistant."},
      {"role": "user", "content": "Is 2^61 - 1 prime? Show the check."}
    ]
  }'

Full walkthrough, including keys and the Python and TypeScript SDKs, in the quickstart.

Where to go next

Getting help

API questions go to api@failure.fail. A person reads every message. For anything else, use the contact page.