Quickstart

Get started with RodiumAi

Start in two ways: plain HTTP/cURL or the OpenAI SDK with RodiumAi base_url. Same payloads, same billing, same API key.

Base URL

All samples use https://api.rodiumai.io/v1. For streaming responses, see the Streaming guide Streaming API reference.

Before your first request

1Create a free account
2Top up with Mobile Money or use your starter RODI credits
3Generate an API key in the dashboard
4Send a chat completion request

API key prefix: rd_sk_YOUR_KEY · env: RODIUMAI_API_KEY

Using the OpenAI SDK

Configure OpenAI clients with https://api.rodiumai.io/v1 as base_url / baseURL and set RODIUMAI_API_KEY. Then call chat.completions.create exactly like OpenAI.

Install OpenAI package

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First completion

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Using the API

POST to /v1/chat/completions with a Bearer key and JSON body, schema and fields are spelled out in the chat completions reference

Shell / scripts:

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Setup commands

Launch focus: cURL and OpenAI package only. RodiumAi native SDKs are being prepared and will be published soon.

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