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Quickstart

EU-HOSTED · NL

Send your first request to Appelon in under five minutes. Every call runs and stays in Dutch data centers. No data leaves the EU, ever.

Appelon's API is OpenAI-compatible. If you already have an OpenAI client, change the base URL to router.appelon.ai/v1 and you're done.

Create an API key

Open the Console → API keys and create a live key. Keys are scoped to a project and can be revoked at any time. Store it as an environment variable. Never commit it.

terminal

export APPELON_API_KEY="sk-appelon-7Fq2••••29x"

Make your first request

Call the chat completions endpoint. The example below uses an open-source model running in Amsterdam.

curl https://router.appelon.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APPELON_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "qwen-35b",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hallo!"}]
  }'

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key=os.environ["APPELON_API_KEY"],
    base_url="https://router.appelon.ai/v1"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="qwen-35b",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hallo!"}]
)

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

import OpenAI from 'openai';

const client = new OpenAI({
  apiKey: process.env.APPELON_API_KEY,
  baseURL: 'https://router.appelon.ai/v1',
});

const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: 'qwen-35b',
  messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'Hallo!' }],
});

console.log(response.choices[0].message.content);

# → 200 OK · 42 tokens · 0.31s