One API, several front doors

Routes, response shape, and credits are identical whether you call from curl, the SDK, an n8n workflow, or an MCP tool in Cursor. What changes is who holds the API key, how retries work, and how much wiring you do before the first successful lookup.

None of these paths lock you out of the others. A common pattern: prototype in the playground or MCP, pin explicit routes in the SDK for production, and keep n8n for ops alerts that do not belong in your main codebase.

Still deciding?

Run a smoke test in the playground, then read the quickstart. REST and SDK docs cover auth headers and meta fields every other path inherits.