Quickstart

API-Key holen, SDK installieren, erster Call — in 60 Sekunden.

API-Key erstellen

Im Dashboard unter Keys auf Create Key klicken. Der Key (cr_live_…) wird genau ein Mal angezeigt — sofort in deinen Secret-Manager kopieren.

export CLEVERROUTER_API_KEY=cr_live_XXXXXXXXXXXX

SDK installieren

CleverRouter spricht das OpenAI-Schema 1:1. Behalte deinen OpenAI-Client und tausche nur die baseURL aus.

bun add openai
npm install openai
uv add openai

Erster Call

hello.ts
import OpenAI from 'openai';

const client = new OpenAI({
  apiKey: process.env.CLEVERROUTER_API_KEY!,
  baseURL: 'https://cleverouter.eu/v1',
});

const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: 'mistral/mistral-small-3.2',
  messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'Hallo aus der EU.' }],
});

console.log(completion.choices[0]?.message.content);
curl https://cleverouter.eu/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CLEVERROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "mistral/mistral-small-3.2",
    "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Hallo aus der EU." }]
  }'
hello.py
import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key=os.environ["CLEVERROUTER_API_KEY"],
    base_url="https://cleverouter.eu/v1",
)

completion = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="mistral/mistral-small-3.2",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hallo aus der EU."}],
)
print(completion.choices[0].message.content)

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