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Integrate Hicap into your favorite developer tools. Use BYOK and our OpenAI-compatible endpoint to get faster, cheaper inference for Cline, Claude Code, Vercel AI SDK, and more.

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Developer Tools Integration

Connect your existing development workflow to Hicap's reserved GPU capacity for faster, more cost-effective AI inference.

OpenAI SDK / BYOK

Use your Hicap API key with any tool that supports OpenAI-compatible providers. Hicap routes your requests through our reserved capacity while maintaining full security and control.

  1. 1Install the OpenAI SDK (pip install openai or npm install openai)
  2. 2Set baseURL to 'https://api.hicap.ai/v1'
  3. 3Set the 'api-key' header with your Hicap API key
  4. 4Call chat.completions.create() as normal
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Cline VS Code & CLI

Hicap is a registered provider with Cline, available on both the Cline VS Code extension and the Cline CLI. Use your BYOK API key to access Hicap deals, performance, and reliability benefits.

  1. 1Install the Cline extension for VS Code
  2. 2Select 'BYOK' as the API provider
  3. 3Choose 'Hicap' from the provider dropdown
  4. 4Paste your Hicap API key
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Claude Code Router

Use the Claude Code router to set up Hicap as a provider on Claude Code and access models across different families—OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and more.

  1. 1Install Claude Code and Claude Code Router globally
  2. 2Create config at ~/.claude-code-router/config.json
  3. 3Set Hicap as the provider with api.hicap.ai/v1 endpoint
  4. 4Run 'ccr start', then 'ccr code' to begin

Simple Application Integration

Using the OpenAI SDK, just change the base URL and add your Hicap API key in the request header.

// Before (OpenAI Direct)
const openai = new OpenAI({
  apiKey: process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY,
});
// After (Hicap Endpoint)
const openai = new OpenAI({
  baseURL: "https://api.hicap.ai/v1",
  defaultHeaders: {
    "api-key": process.env.HICAP_API_KEY
  }
});

AI Migration Prompt

Paste this prompt into your AI coding assistant to migrate your entire project in one go:

Migrate this project from OpenAI direct to Hicap.

Find all OpenAI SDK client initializations and update them to use Hicap:

Required changes:
1. Set baseURL to "https://api.hicap.ai/v1"
2. Add "api-key" header with the Hicap API key
3. Remove any existing apiKey or Authorization headers

The Hicap client config should look like:
{
  baseURL: "https://api.hicap.ai/v1",
  defaultHeaders: { "api-key": <your-hicap-key> }
}

Also:
- Add HICAP_API_KEY to environment variables (.env, .env.example, etc.)
- Update any config files, constants, or helper functions that create OpenAI clients
- Keep all API calls unchanged (chat.completions.create, embeddings, etc.)
- Search for patterns like: new OpenAI, createOpenAI, OpenAIClient, openai.create

Quick Test with CURL

curl https://api.hicap.ai/v1/chat/completions \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -H "api-key: $HICAP_API_KEY" \ -d '{"model":"gpt-4o","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'

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