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title: "About"
description: "What Boundless is, who runs it, and how it is operated"
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# About Boundless

An inference platform for open-weight models, run by Boundless Networks, Inc.


Boundless is an inference service that serves open-weight models over an OpenAI-compatible API, sold on prepaid credits, with the exact cost of every request returned alongside the response.

## What the service is

One API, three wire formats. Point an official OpenAI SDK at the base URL and existing chat-completions code works unchanged; Codex CLI uses the compatible Responses subset; and the same service speaks the Anthropic Messages API. All three reach the same models on the same [rate card](/docs/pricing).

The models are open-weight (DeepSeek, GLM, Nemotron, Qwen and others) served on infrastructure we tune around the workload rather than around a general-purpose default. The [model catalog](/docs/pricing) lists what is live, each model's API identifier, its served context length, and its price per million tokens.

## How it is sold

Credits are prepaid. Every response carries its exact token counts, so any charge on an account can be recomputed from the rate card and the `usage` object. That recomputability is the product's central claim, and the console is built so it holds. Spend is shown to the sub-cent and never rounded away. When credits reach zero, requests stop; there is no silent overage.

## What we do not keep

Prompts and outputs are never stored and never trained on. What the service records is what billing needs: token counts, model, timestamp, and cost. [Section 3 of the customer terms](/terms) states this in full, along with the limits on what can be promised about the third-party infrastructure the service runs on. See [Privacy](/privacy) for the short version.

## Status of the service

The service is invite-only while the first accounts are onboarded. The model lineup, pricing, and API base URL may change during this period. Live availability is published on the status page linked in the footer of every page.

## Reaching us

Email [support@boundless.network](mailto:support@boundless.network); replies come from a human. [Contact](/contact) says what to include.