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Aider talks to us over OpenAI Chat Completions. It takes the address and the key from environment variables and the model from a launch flag.

What is verified. We have not yet verified this setup with a live run of Aider against our API. Our notes cite no Aider documentation page; they (November 9, 2026) hold only OPENAI_API_BASE, OPENAI_API_KEY. Not checked against the documentation: the openai/ prefix of the model id and the launch command. If something does not match, tell support.

Setup#

bash
export OPENAI_API_BASE=https://api.aicreator.app/v1
export OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-aic-…
aider --model openai/gpt-6-astra
  • OPENAI_API_BASE — https://api.aicreator.app/v1, with /v1 at the end.
  • OPENAI_API_KEY — your sk-aic-… key from the Keys page.
  • --model — the model’s id from our list with the openai/ prefix, as in the example.

Models#

Any model on the Chat protocol will do; they are listed in Models and prices. The API itself gives the list for your key:

bash
curl "https://api.aicreator.app/v1/models?surface=chat" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AIC_API_KEY"

An id that is not on the list returns 400 model_not_available.

Things to know#

  • One key runs up to 4 requests at a time; the next one gets 429 concurrent_requests with a retry-after header.
  • A Chat Completions stream of ours always ends with a chunk that has an empty choices: [] and the token usage; that is how we charge by actual tokens.
  • From Russia, if https://api.aicreator.app is unreachable, set OPENAI_API_BASE to https://api-ru.aicreator.app/v1: the key and the balance are the same.

If a request fails, see Troubleshooting.