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Get your first AI response in 3 steps.

Authenticate every request with your API key.

Point any OpenAI-compatible client at the Tchavi API.

Tchavi is a secure gateway that gives you access to multiple AI providers through one API key and one credit balance.

Receive responses token-by-token as Server-Sent Events by setting stream: true.

Quick answers to the most common questions about using Tchavi.

Generate chat completions from a list of messages — the primary endpoint for text generation with all supported models.

Generate and edit images from text prompts across all supported image models.

Text-to-speech and transcription (Whisper) endpoints for generating audio from text and converting audio files to text.

Generate videos from text or images asynchronously, with optional audio, resolution and aspect-ratio control.

Convert text into numeric vectors for semantic search, clustering, recommendations, and RAG pipelines.

Track the status of asynchronous operations such as video generation via the jobs endpoints.

Access 50+ AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and more through a single API, organized into budget groups.

Tchavi uses a credit-based billing system — each API request consumes credits based on the model used and the number of tokens processed.

Rate limits depend on your account level, which is unlocked automatically based on your lifetime spend on the platform.

Tchavi returns standard HTTP status codes with a structured JSON error body.

Use the official @tchavi/sdk, the OpenAI SDK as a drop-in, or plain cURL to call the API.