Quickstart

Up and running in 5 min. No code changes required.

1. Get your API key

Sign up at gatectr.com and grab your API key from the dashboard.

2. Install the SDK```bash

npm install @gatectr/sdk </div><div data-gb-custom-block data-tag="tab" data-title='Python'>bash pip install gatectr-sdk </div><div data-gb-custom-block data-tag="tab" data-title='cURL'>No install needed.</div></div>## 3. Make your first request<div data-gb-custom-block data-tag="tabs"><div data-gb-custom-block data-tag="tab" data-title='Node.js'>typescript import { GateCtr } from '@gatectr/sdk';

const client = new GateCtr({ apiKey: process.env.GATECTR_API_KEY });

const response = await client.complete({ model: 'gpt-4o', messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'Hello' }], });

console.log(response.choices[0].message.content); </div><div data-gb-custom-block data-tag="tab" data-title='Python'>python from gatectr import GateCtr

client = GateCtr(api_key=os.environ["GATECTR_API_KEY"])

response = client.complete( model="gpt-4o", messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}], )

print(response.choices[0].message.content) </div><div data-gb-custom-block data-tag="tab" data-title='cURL'>bash curl https://api.gatectr.com/v1/complete -H "Authorization: Bearer $GATECTR_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{ "model": "gpt-4o", "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Hello" }] }'

That's it. GateCtr is now optimizing, routing, and tracking every request.

## What just happened

- Context Optimizer compressed your prompt before sending it to the LLM
- Budget Firewall checked your project limits
- Analytics logged the token usage and cost in your dashboard

## Next steps

- [Set up a Budget Firewall](../features/budget-firewall.md)
- [Enable the Context Optimizer](../features/context-optimizer.md)
- [Configure Webhooks](../features/webhooks.md)