Strands Agents (gateway)

Route Strands Agents’ underlying LLM calls through the Respan gateway to use 250+ models from different providers. Only your RESPAN_API_KEY is needed for the gateway request path; no separate provider credentials are required in the client.

Setup

$
pip install "strands-agents[openai]"

$
export RESPAN_API_KEY="YOUR_RESPAN_API_KEY"

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import os
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from strands import Agent
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from strands.models.openai import OpenAIModel
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model = OpenAIModel(
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    model_id="gpt-5.5",
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    client_args={
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        "api_key": os.environ["RESPAN_API_KEY"],
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        "base_url": "https://api.respan.ai/api",
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    },
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)
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agent = Agent(model=model)
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print(agent("What is the capital of France?"))

Switch models

Change the model_id parameter on OpenAIModel to use another OpenAI model through the same gateway-backed endpoint.

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OpenAIModel(model_id="gpt-5.5", client_args={"api_key": ..., "base_url": "https://api.respan.ai/api"})
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OpenAIModel(model_id="gpt-5-mini", client_args={"api_key": ..., "base_url": "https://api.respan.ai/api"})

See the full model list.