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Quick start

Quote a request, then ask it. Two calls.

1. Quote

Price a request before anything runs. No search, no inference, no ledger row.

POST /api/quote
{ "sources": ["exa", "keenable"] }

→ { "total_flop": 0.011, "billed": ["answer", "exa"] }

Add q and model and it also returns the miner's cost, from the FLOP gateway's own zero-spend estimator. That call needs no key and costs nothing, so you can price a whole job — Scout's fee plus the inference behind it — before committing either.

POST /api/quote
{ "sources": ["keenable"], "q": "How many miners are on FLOP?",
  "model": "flop:qwen/qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct", "max_tokens": 250 }

→ { "total_flop": 0.001,                       // Scout's fee
    "inference": { "cost_flop": 1.848,         // the miner's, gateway-estimated
                   "input_tokens": 58, "output_tokens": 250,
                   "gflops": 616, "latency_blocks": 4,
                   "available_miners": 28 } }

2. Ask

sources: ["auto"] lets Scout pick free sources from the question. A paid source is only ever used if you name it.

POST /api/answer
{ "q": "Which FLOP miners are most reliable?", "sources": ["auto"] }

→ { "answers": [ … ], "pricing": { … } }

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