Getting Started with XVAPI: Connect Current AI Model Families

Why a Unified AI Gateway?

The AI landscape is evolving at breakneck speed. New models launch every week — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Mistral, and dozens more. Each comes with its own SDK, authentication flow, rate limits, and pricing.

For developers, this fragmentation is a nightmare. You end up writing adapter code for every provider, managing multiple API keys, and dealing with inconsistent response formats.

XVAPI solves this. One API key. One endpoint. One integration surface for current mainstream models.

Quick Setup

Getting started takes less than 5 minutes:

1. Create an account at xvapi.com
2. Generate an API key from your dashboard
3. Make your first request

curl https://api.xvapi.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "gpt-5.4-mini",
    "messages": [
      {"role": "user", "content": "Hello, world!"}
    ]
  }'

That's it. The same endpoint works across current model families — just change the model parameter.

OpenAI-Compatible Format

XVAPI follows the OpenAI chat completions format. If you're already using the OpenAI SDK, switching is a one-line change:

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key="your-xvapi-key",
    base_url="https://api.xvapi.com/v1"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="gpt-5.4-mini",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum computing simply"}]
)

print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Key Benefits

• Single billing — No need to manage accounts across different providers separately
• Automatic failover — If one provider goes down, XVAPI can route to an equivalent model
• Usage tracking — Monitor costs and usage across all models in one dashboard
• Rate limit management — We handle provider-level rate limits so you don't have to

What's Next?

Now that you're set up, explore the current lineup in our model catalog, then choose a default route based on latency, cost, and capability rather than yesterday's shortlist.

Happy building!