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Chatbox is a cross-platform desktop and mobile chat client. Add MirAPI as a custom OpenAI-compatible provider and one base URL plus one key gives you the whole catalogue — chat, vision, and reasoning models.

What you need

Section titled “What you need”
Element Value
Base URL https://api.mirapi.ai/v1
API key Your MirAPI key (sk-...)
Model deepseek-chat

Chatbox speaks the OpenAI-compatible protocol, so the only endpoint you configure is the base URL. Because Chatbox appends /chat/completions itself, the base URL must end in /v1.

Configure

Section titled “Configure”
  1. Open Settings → Add custom provider (Add Provider).
  2. Choose OpenAI API compatible.
  3. Fill in:
API domain / Base URL: https://api.mirapi.ai/v1
API key: sk-...
Default model: deepseek-chat
  1. Save the provider.
  2. Add deepseek-chat — or any other id from GET /v1/models — to the provider’s model list if it isn’t populated, then start a new chat with the MirAPI provider.

Verify with a message

Section titled “Verify with a message”

Send:

Reply with exactly: connected to MirAPI

The reply should contain the exact phrase. If you get an error instead, it almost always comes down to the base URL or the key — check both against the table above.

Tool-specific pitfalls

Section titled “Tool-specific pitfalls”
  • Keep /v1 in the base URL. https://api.mirapi.ai/v1 is correct; https://api.mirapi.ai alone breaks the chat path.
  • Pick models your key can call. A model outside your whitelist returns 403 even with a valid key.
  • 403 also means an empty balance. Top up and retry — the same key works again immediately.
  • 429 means rate limited. Retry with jittered exponential backoff; MirAPI sends no Retry-After header and does not retry for you.
  • Errors carry a request ID. Chatbox shows the raw HTTP error text, including MirAPI’s request-id suffix — keep it for support tickets.
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