OpenAI protocol

Call Chat Completions and Responses through Tikway’s OpenAI-compatible API.

The OpenAI-compatible API uses Authorization: Bearer <API Key>. Set your SDK base URL to https://api.tikway.ai/v1 and pass a Tikway model ID in the model field.

API	Path	Best for
Chat Completions	POST /v1/chat/completions	Chat messages, tool calls, and streaming with the messages array.
Responses	POST /v1/responses	Multi-turn, tool, and multimodal workflows built around input and response items.

Chat Completions

Learn the message format, tool calls, streaming, and request examples.

Responses

Learn about input items, tools, conversation state, and response fields.

Model capabilities vary. Check that the target model supports your parameters before switching models. See Gateway and authentication for credentials and Status codes and responses for errors.