Forge is preparing the requested surface and verifying the live route.
Forge is preparing the requested surface and verifying the live route.
Integrating directly with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and other providers gives you maximum control but requires building routing, failover, caching, security, memory, and observability yourself. Forge provides all of this out of the box through a single API that is fully OpenAI-compatible. You can switch by changing just your base URL and API key. The infrastructure that takes months to build internally is available immediately.
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Integrating directly with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and other providers gives you maximum control but requires building routing, failover, caching, security, memory, and observability yourself. Forge provides all of this out of the box through a single API that is fully OpenAI-compatible. You can switch by changing just your base URL and API key. The infrastructure that takes months to build internally is available immediately.
Switching from Direct Provider APIs to Forge is straightforward. Forge exposes an OpenAI-compatible API, so migration typically involves three steps:
Update your base URL
Change your API base URL to https://optimaforge.ai/v1
Set your Forge API key
Generate a Forge API key from your dashboard and update your environment variable.
Configure provider keys
Add your existing provider API keys (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) to the Forge dashboard. Forge routes to them on your behalf.
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