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Quickstarts

From API key to first request, in your language

Ten short guides, one per job: text a code, place a call, buy a number, price a destination or hand the marketplace to an AI agent. Each one is a complete program in cURL, Node, Python, PHP, Go, Java, C# and Ruby, with the response it returns and what it costs.

Every guide is written out in all eight languages; your choice of language carries across the portal.

Every quickstart

Five steps, the same every time

  1. 01

    Get an API key

    Open an account and create a key in the dashboard. Test keys run the full request without delivering it, on invite-only test credit.

  2. 02

    Fund the balance

    Prepaid from $5 by card or crypto, or $100 by wire. Each guide says what its request costs.

  3. 03

    Make the request

    A complete program in your language, with the key read from PACKETEXCHANGE_API_KEY.

  4. 04

    Handle the response

    The real response shape, what each field means and what errors look like.

  5. 05

    Go further

    The next endpoint, the product page and the full example.

Prefer a typed client? The Node and Python SDKs cover the same endpoints. Longer programs with argument handling and error output are in the example gallery.

Start building

Your key is one sign-up away

Open an account, add credit from $5 and create a key. Wholesale rates from the first request, with no contract and no monthly fee.