Build on the Elefant LLM

The Elefant LLM is metered intelligence. Rather than a monthly plan, your usage is paid for in $ELEFANT, the network's Solana token. You deposit tokens into your account, send prompts, and each reply spends a small amount from your balance. Anything you don't use can be withdrawn back to your wallet at any time.

• Pay-as-you-go. No subscription — you pay only for the replies you generate.
• Real balance. Your balance is funded by real on-chain $ELEFANT deposits, tracked per wallet.
• Two ways in. The web console (a chat UI) and a programmatic HTTP API secured by keys.

Three steps to your first reply:

The console is a chat interface like ChatGPT or Claude. It is multi-turn — Elefant remembers the conversation so you can follow up naturally. Every reply shows the exact amount it cost, and your live balance sits in the top bar.

Your conversation is stored locally in your browser, per wallet, so it survives reloads. Use Clear chat to start fresh. The collapsible left panel holds your balance, funding controls, live Solana data, recent activity, and your API keys.

Pricing is based on the length of each reply, not a flat per-message fee:

• A minimum balance of 20 $ELEFANT is required to send a message.
• Each reply costs max(5, round(output_tokens × 0.25)) $ELEFANT — about 5 for a short answer, scaling up with longer responses.
• Nothing is charged if the model determines there is no real task (e.g. empty or gibberish input).

Your balance is a real, per-wallet ledger funded by on-chain deposits to the Elefant treasury.

Deposit

Enter an amount and press Fund. Your wallet builds and signs a $ELEFANT transfer to the treasury; the backend verifies the confirmed transaction on-chain and credits your balance. Each deposit is keyed to its transaction signature, so it can never be double-credited.

Withdraw

Enter an amount and press Withdraw. The treasury signs the tokens back to your wallet. If a transfer fails, your balance is automatically restored.

Generate keys to call Elefant from your own apps, scripts, or agents. Open the console, scroll to API keys in the sidebar, and press Generate key.

• Keys look like elf-CT3DRPdTaGkLCtYozkF45yX5EYGi9lzl — the prefix elf- followed by 32 characters.
• A key is shown once at creation. Copy and store it securely — only a hash is kept server-side.
• Calls made with a key spend the $ELEFANT balance of the wallet that created it.
• Revoke a key anytime from the dashboard.

Base URL https://app.elefant.cloud. Authenticate with your key in the Authorization header.

POST /api/infer

Send a prompt (or a full chat history) and get a reply.

curl https://app.elefant.cloud/api/infer \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer elf-..." \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"prompt":"Explain proof of inference in one sentence."}'

{
  "messages": [
    { "role": "user", "content": "My name is Sans." },
    { "role": "assistant", "content": "Hi Sans!" },
    { "role": "user", "content": "What is my name?" }
  ]
}

{
  "ok": true,
  "accepted": true,
  "output": "Proof of inference cryptographically binds a model's output ...",
  "tokensOut": 42,
  "cost": 11,
  "balance": 989,
  "proof": "0x9f3a...c712",
  "latencyMs": 740
}

Parameters

Errors

• 401 bad_key — the key is invalid or revoked.
• 402 insufficient — balance below the minimum; fund your account.
• 400 invalid_task — the prompt isn't an actionable task.

Other endpoints

• GET /api/ledger?wallet=… — balance, totals, and recent activity for a wallet.
• GET · POST · DELETE /api/keys — list, create, and revoke API keys.

Elefant pairs an on-chain economy with off-chain inference:

• Wallet & payments — Phantom on Solana. Deposits are real $ELEFANT transfers verified through a Helius RPC.
• Ledger — a per-wallet balance backed by Postgres. Funded by deposits, debited per query, withdrawable on demand.
• Inference — every prompt runs through the Elefant LLM; the reply is metered and charged.
• Live data — Solana telemetry, $ELEFANT holders and market cap, and a global presence map power the site.

This is the consumer side of the network described in the whitepaper — intelligence priced and paid for in the network's own token.