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Quick start

This page targets the modern google-genai Python SDK (pip install google-genai), not the legacy google-generativeai package.
Python
from google import genai

client = genai.Client(
    api_key="sk-orca-...",
    http_options={"base_url": "https://api.orcarouter.ai"},
)

response = client.models.generate_content(
    model="google/gemini-2.5-flash",
    contents="Hello",
)
print(response.text)
The SDK hits https://api.orcarouter.ai/v1beta/models/{model}:generateContent with the standard Gemini JSON shape — OrcaRouter’s first-class Gemini surface. Streaming, function calling, and inline multimodal data (image, audio) work directly; for size limits and per-model constraints, see Google’s Gemini API documentation. The SDK sends api_key via the x-goog-api-key header (or ?key=... query) — OrcaRouter’s auth middleware recognizes both on /v1beta/... paths. See Get an API key for the full table of accepted auth headers.

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