Two lines, and your requests have a policy.

Set up an environment

In the dashboard, create a project and an environment in the US, the EU or Australia. The region is fixed when the environment is created, and its requests are processed there.

Add a connection: a provider account of yours, on OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon Bedrock or Google Gemini, with its data terms. To try Alectura first, choose the simulator instead: it needs no provider key, answers in every provider’s format with recorded responses, reaches no provider and costs nothing, and an environment can send it 60 requests a minute. Then create a sending key. It names its region and mode:

sk-alectura-{region}-{mode}-{secret}

{mode} is live for an environment marked as production and test for any other. A key sent to another region’s host is refused with wrong_region, and the message names the right host.

Point your SDK at Alectura

Keep the SDK you use. The key goes in whichever header it already sends, and the base URL is your region’s:

import os

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://eu.gateway.alecturalabs.com/openai/v1",
    api_key=os.environ["ALECTURA_API_KEY"],
)
response = client.responses.create(
    model="gpt-5-mini",
    input="Say hello in French.",
    extra_headers={
        "Alectura-Organization": "globex",
        "Alectura-User": "user_42",
        "Alectura-Plan": "enterprise",
    },
)
print(response.output_text)

import os

from anthropic import Anthropic

client = Anthropic(
    base_url="https://eu.gateway.alecturalabs.com/anthropic",
    api_key=os.environ["ALECTURA_API_KEY"],
)
message = client.messages.create(
    model="claude-haiku-4-5",
    max_tokens=1024,
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Say hello in French."}],
    extra_headers={"Alectura-Organization": "globex", "Alectura-User": "user_42"},
)
print(message.content[0].text)

import os

from google import genai

client = genai.Client(
    api_key=os.environ["ALECTURA_API_KEY"],
    http_options={
        "base_url": "https://eu.gateway.alecturalabs.com/gemini",
        "headers": {"Alectura-Organization": "globex", "Alectura-User": "user_42"},
    },
)
response = client.models.generate_content(
    model="gemini-3.5-flash",
    contents="Say hello in French.",
)
print(response.text)

• The two lines that change
• Who the request is for

Claude on Amazon Bedrock is reached through the Anthropic SDK: the environment’s policy decides whether a request goes to Anthropic or to Bedrock.

Say who each request is for

Policies match on these headers, and limits, signals and suspensions count by them. The values are your own identifiers.

• Each value is 1 to 256 characters of printable ASCII. A missing header is null, and policies can match null.
• Any other Alectura-* header is refused, so a typo can’t quietly make a request anonymous.
• OpenAI, Anthropic and Bedrock get a keyed hash of the user as its safety identifier, never your identifier itself. Gemini’s API has no such field.

Read what comes back

A response is the provider’s own, with a few headers added:

A refusal comes back in the provider’s own error shape, so your error handling already works, and the provider never sees the request. On the OpenAI formats:

{
  "error": {
    "message": "Requests for this user are suspended.",
    "type": "alectura_policy",
    "param": null,
    "code": "user_suspended",
    "request_id": "req_01M3PQJ64T…"
  }
}

Each code has one status. Only the codes that waiting can fix get a status SDKs retry on their own: 429 and the 5xx.