Quickstart

Note

Partly written. Steps 2 and 3 are settled; the sign-up flow in step 1 is still to come.

1. Create an account

2. Create an API key

In the Portal, open Developers and click Create API key.

The key’s secret is shown once, at creation, and cannot be retrieved afterwards. Copy it somewhere safe before you leave the page — if you lose it, the only way forward is to rotate the key. Keys are prefixed thatch_sk_.

export THATCH_API_KEY="..."

See API keys for who may create, rotate, and revoke keys.

3. Send a request

The API is OpenAI-compatible: if you already have code talking to an OpenAI-shaped endpoint, you can point it at Thatch by changing the base URL (https://api.thatch.cloud/v1) and the key.

First, see which models are available to your key:

curl https://api.thatch.cloud/v1/models \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $THATCH_API_KEY"

Then send a completion request, using a model id from that response:

curl https://api.thatch.cloud/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $THATCH_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "<model-id>",
    "messages": [
      { "role": "user", "content": "Hello" }
    ]
  }'

4. Next steps

• Core concepts — what a job, node, and region actually are.
• API overview — the full surface.
• Rate limits & quotas — before you scale up.