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Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-12

A Lie Detector for AI API Middlemen

checkfakeapi.net ↗ · Developer Corner · score 79.0
Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

CheckFakeAPI tests Claude, OpenAI, and Gemini API intermediaries for protocol compatibility, capability gaps, streaming inconsistencies, and missing usage metadata.

Why it surfaced

The tool runs roughly 7–10 probes and produces field-level evidence instead of a single opaque score, checking details such as tool-call IDs, stream events, thinking blocks, and usage fields. It asks users to submit an API key for the current test and claims to clear it afterward, making the tool both unusually specific and worth approaching with care.

Ice Does Not Count

August 12’s newborn domains include a rule-bound archive of enormous sodas, 27 family stories cut from one afternoon, a disaster-supply map with a 24-hour freshness rule, and an ocean bell that rings only when six conditions agree.

This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-12 Domain Arrivals issue.