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Build with the Dheep API

The Dheep API is HTTP + JSON and intentionally OpenAI-compatible, so most existing client libraries work by changing the base URL and key. Every request is authenticated with a secret key created in this portal.

Base URL

text

https://api.dheep.co.za

All endpoints are versioned under /v1. TLS is required; plain HTTP requests are rejected.

Your first request

bash

curl https://api.dheep.co.za/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $DHEEP_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "dheep-chat",
    "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Hello Dheep" }]
  }'

Models & pricing

Model	Context	Input / 1K	Output / 1K
dheep-chat-large Highest quality reasoning and long-context work.	128k	R0.00220	R0.00660
dheep-chat Balanced default for production chat workloads.	32k	R0.00080	R0.00240
dheep-chat-mini Fast and inexpensive for classification and extraction.	16k	R0.00020	R0.00060
dheep-embed Embeddings for search and retrieval.	8k	R0.00005	R0.00000

Next steps

Authentication

Header format, key rotation and safe storage.

Chat completions

Full request and response schema, plus streaming.

Errors & rate limits

Status codes, retry guidance and 429 headers.

Playground

Send a live request with one of your keys.

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