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Cline talks to us over OpenAI Chat Completions through its “OpenAI Compatible” provider. It needs three values: the base URL, the key and the model id.

What is verified. We have not yet verified this setup with a live run of Cline against our API. From the Cline documentation (read on November 9, 2026) we took: Base URL, API Key, Model. Not checked against the documentation: the exact labels of the fields in the settings window. If something does not match, tell support.

Setup#

In Cline’s settings pick the API Provider “OpenAI Compatible” and fill in the fields:

OpenAI Compatible
Base URL: https://api.aicreator.app/v1
API Key:  sk-aic-…
Model:    gpt-6-astra
  • Base URL — https://api.aicreator.app/v1, with /v1 at the end.
  • API Key — your sk-aic-… key from the Keys page.
  • Model — the model’s full id from our list, with no prefix.

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 the Base URL to https://api-ru.aicreator.app/v1: the key and the balance are the same.

If a request fails, see Troubleshooting.