Particle (
@particle_api) has been one of our closest partners in building Merge Gateway, serving a big share of our GLM 5.3 Flash and DeepSeek V4 Flash traffic.
Today they launched particle-1, their first model for developers. It keeps performance at parity while using ~45% fewer tokens.
Particle's inference and particle-1 are both available on Merge Gateway now.
Try it out: