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Base URL & Authentication

https://api.openference.com/v1

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Full endpoint examples

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Authentication

Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY

• Keys are created in the dashboard.
• Each key is a long opaque string shown once at creation.
• Keys can be restricted to a subset of models.

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cURL

-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"

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OpenAI SDK (Python / JS)

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.openference.com/v1",
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY"
)

const client = new OpenAI({
  baseURL: "https://api.openference.com/v1",
  apiKey: "YOUR_API_KEY",
});

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One key for everything

• Cursor, Claude Code, Codex CLI, OpenCode, Kilo CLI, Pi
• Cline and other VS Code extensions
• The official OpenAI Python and Node SDKs (and frameworks built on them)
• curl

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Model restrictions

• The GET /v1/models response will only return allowed models for that key.
• Requests to disallowed models return 403.
• Leave the restriction empty to allow all active models.

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Next

• Quickstart
• Client Integrations
• API Keys & Security