Quickstart

Moving to apicuts is one line of code, and rolling back is the same line. Your endpoint and key are set up with you on a short onboarding call.

Before you start

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Your apicuts endpoint and API key, set up with you on the onboarding call, together with your data region (EU or US).
Your existing code. Your prompts, tools and models stay the same.

1. Store your endpoint and key

Environment

export APICUTS_BASE_URL="YOUR_APICUTS_ENDPOINT"
export APICUTS_API_KEY="YOUR_APICUTS_KEY"

2. Point your client at apicuts

apicuts speaks the OpenAI API format, so the official SDKs work as they are. Only the base URL and key change.

Python

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url=os.environ["APICUTS_BASE_URL"],  # the only line you change
    api_key=os.environ["APICUTS_API_KEY"],
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="your-model",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

TypeScript

import OpenAI from "openai";

const client = new OpenAI({
  baseURL: process.env.APICUTS_BASE_URL, // the only line you change
  apiKey: process.env.APICUTS_API_KEY,
});

const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "your-model",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
});
console.log(response.choices[0].message.content);

cURL

curl "$APICUTS_BASE_URL/chat/completions" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APICUTS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model": "your-model", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]}'

3. Check the first requests

Responses come back in the same format your code already expects. Within seconds, requests appear in your savings dashboard with model, provider, latency, tokens and cost.

Roll back anytime

Set the base URL back to your provider's. Traffic skips apicuts entirely. No migration, no lock-in, no long-term contract.

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