> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.scaledown.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Introduction

> What ScaleDown is, what you need, and where to go next.

## What is ScaleDown?

ScaleDown is a suite of task-specific small language models (SLMs) that reduce your AI token usage through context extraction - identifying and retaining only the information that matters for your task. You get the same quality responses while paying significantly less.

## Before You Start

To use ScaleDown, you'll need:

* An API key
* Basic knowledge of making API calls
* Your existing AI prompts that you want to optimize

The API base URL is `https://api.scaledown.xyz`. (`api.scaledown.ai` is not an API host.)

Ready to get your API key? [Contact our sales team](https://app.reclaim.ai/m/neal-scaledown/25-min).

## Explore the models

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Compress" icon="compress" href="/api-reference/compress-overview">Trim context before your LLM call.</Card>
  <Card title="Summarize" icon="align-left" href="/api-reference/summarize-overview">Short abstractive summaries of long text.</Card>
  <Card title="Extract" icon="magnifying-glass" href="/api-reference/extract-overview">Structured fields from unstructured text.</Card>
  <Card title="Classify" icon="tags" href="/api-reference/classify-overview">Label text with your own rubrics.</Card>
</CardGroup>


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