Quick Start

Blue Claw speaks the OpenAI API. If your agent already talks to OpenAI, you're most of the way there. Swap the base URL, drop in a key, and your recurring workloads run on lower-cost open models.

1. Get an API key

Sign in to the console with your email — we send a 6-digit code, no password — and your account starts with a $5 welcome credit. Create a key that starts with bc_ under API Keys and keep it somewhere safe. It's the only credential your client needs.

2. Point your client at Blue Claw

Change one line. Everything else about your setup stays the same.

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://openai.blueclaw.network/v1",
    api_key="bc_your-key-here",
)

3. Make your first call

Send a normal chat completion. Streaming works exactly as it does on OpenAI. If it comes back, you're live.

curl https://openai.blueclaw.network/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer bc_your-key-here" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model": "auto", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello, Blue Claw!"}]}'

4. Wire up your agent

OpenClaw, OpenCode, Hermes-style agents, LiteLLM routers, and anything that reads an OpenAI-compatible endpoint all work the same way: set the base URL and API key in the tool's config, pick a model, and point your recurring passes at Blue Claw. Keep another API on hand for the few calls that truly need frontier quality.

What you can call today

• Chat & completions, including streaming.
• Embeddings for search, RAG, and indexing.
• Image generation on open image models.
• Text-to-speech and speech-to-text.
• Reranking to re-order retrieved candidates.

Durable async jobs and video AI tools are in development.

This is a starting point. Deeper, per-tool recipes are on the way. Stuck on something? Ask in the Discord.