Protocol guide
OpenAI-compatible vs Anthropic Messages APIs
Compare request shapes, base URLs, streaming events, tool calls, and the client choices that determine which protocol to use.
ScaleMax guides
Practical notes for building and using AI API integrations.
These guides explain the protocol, billing, and reliability details that tend to cause real client failures. Each guide links to the exact ScaleMax documentation needed to configure or verify the behavior.
Billing guide
API credits vs token packs
Understand what each billing mode measures, how cache tokens are counted, and which base URL belongs to each key.
7 minute readRead guide: API credits vs token packs
Reliability guide
Stop retries from multiplying AI token usage
See how client and gateway retries combine, where idempotency belongs, and why a stream must never be retried after visible output.