SDK — bring the client you already have

InferenceDirect speaks the OpenAI API and Anthropic's /v1/messages natively. There's no InferenceDirect SDK to install — change the base URL in the client you already use.

Python — openai SDK

# pip install openai — nothing else
client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.inferencedirect.com/n/ml-platform",
    api_key=os.environ["INFERENCEDIRECT_KEY"],
)
r = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "…"}],
)

Anthropic SDK

# pip install anthropic — nothing else
client = Anthropic(
    base_url="https://api.inferencedirect.com",
    api_key=os.environ["INFERENCEDIRECT_KEY"],
)
r = client.messages.create(
    model="claude-haiku-4-5",
    max_tokens=1024,
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "…"}],
)

Agents and CLIs

Device-code login means agent tooling and CLIs — Claude Code included — authenticate the same way a human does, without a long-lived credential baked into a config file. See Docs for the flow.