Quick Start
Get an API key, make your first request, and start building — in about 5 minutes.
You need two things: an API key and one HTTP request. That's it.
- 1Create an API key
In your dashboard, open Developer → API Keys and click Create key. Copy it right away and keep it somewhere safe: it's only shown once.
- 2Make your first request
Send a chat message with cURL, JavaScript or Python. Replace
YOUR_API_KEYwith the key you just copied. - 3Watch it arrive
Open Monitor → Activity in the dashboard. Every request shows up there in real time, with its model, tokens and latency.
Your first request
curl -X POST "https://api.tarqaai.com/api/v1/chat/completions" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "claude-opus-4-6",
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello, TarqaAI!"}]
}'You'll get back a standard chat completion:
200 OK
{
"id": "chatcmpl-abc123",
"object": "chat.completion",
"created": 1751760000,
"model": "claude-opus-4-6",
"choices": [{
"index": 0,
"message": {
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Hello! I'm TarqaAI, your unified AI gateway..."
},
"finish_reason": "stop"
}],
"usage": {
"prompt_tokens": 14,
"completion_tokens": 32,
"total_tokens": 46
}
}Try another model
Change "model" to any model in your dashboard's Models page, for example a Gemini or Llama model. Nothing else in the request needs to change.