Quickstart

You need one thing before you start: an API key from a model provider, for example OpenAI, Anthropic, Google or OpenRouter. nemu does not resell model access, it routes to the accounts you already have.

0. Create your account

Step	Required	What it asks
Account type	Yes	Personal or Professional
Company	Professional only	The company name; size, website, industry and role are optional
Plan	Professional only	A paid plan, bought at checkout
Who invited you	No	The username of the friend who referred you
Your team	No	Email addresses to invite to your workspace, once your own email is verified
GitHub	No	Connect your repositories for chat and Computer
Get started	No	The CLI commands, or a link to create an API key

Personal accounts can stay on the free plan. Professional accounts need a paid plan, and the console asks for one until it is active, or until you switch to a personal account. The sign-in page remembers how you signed in last and marks it Last used. The human check runs when you press Sign in or Create account, not when the page opens.

1. Connect a provider

In the console, open Providers and add one. Pick Automatic and choose from the models.dev catalog if your provider is a known one. nemu then knows its base URL, its protocol and its model list, and keeps the pricing and context windows current for you. Pick Custom if you are pointing at something the catalog does not know about, such as a local server or a private deployment, and give it a base URL and a compatibility mode. Paste the provider key. It is sealed and never shown again, and never leaves the console.

2. Enable a model

Open Models and add one under that provider. The important field is the gateway name. That is the string your code will send, and it is yours to choose. A model whose real identifier is claude-fable-5-1 can be anthropic/fable-5.1 to you. That name is the only name the gateway accepts. The provider’s own identifier does not work from outside, so nothing you run can reach a model you did not deliberately expose.

3. Create a key

Open API keys and create one. It looks like sk_xxxxx-xxxxx. followed by a 40 character secret, and it belongs to the workspace you are in. Copy it now. It is not shown again.

4. Send a request

curl https://api.nemu.cc/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_NEMU_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "anthropic/fable-5.1",
    "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "hello" }]
  }'

To see exactly which names are accepted:

curl https://api.nemu.cc/v1/models -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_NEMU_KEY"

Every id in that response is a string you can put in model.

5. Point a real client at it

Most tools take a base URL and a key, so nothing else has to change.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key="YOUR_NEMU_KEY",
    base_url="https://api.nemu.cc/v1",
)

import Anthropic from "@anthropic-ai/sdk";

const client = new Anthropic({
  apiKey: "YOUR_NEMU_KEY",
  baseURL: "https://api.nemu.cc/anthropic",
});

export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL="https://api.nemu.cc/anthropic"
export ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN="YOUR_NEMU_KEY"
claude

Full guides: Claude Code, Codex, How the gateway works.

What to do next

Open Metrics and you will see the request you just made, with its model, latency, token counts and cost. From there, the pieces that are worth knowing about are mappings for renaming models without touching your code, quotas for capping spend, and workflows for routing a request through logic before it reaches a model.

Get started

Setup

Console

Workflows

Chat

Computer

Context

API reference

0. Create your account

1. Connect a provider

2. Enable a model

3. Create a key

4. Send a request

5. Point a real client at it

What to do next

​0. Create your account

​1. Connect a provider

​2. Enable a model

​3. Create a key

​4. Send a request

​5. Point a real client at it

​What to do next

0. Create your account

1. Connect a provider

2. Enable a model

3. Create a key

4. Send a request

5. Point a real client at it

What to do next