How do I access Relace Search from inside Iran?

Create an account on Hormouz and generate an API key. Hormouz provides a stable path to the model from inside Iran, with no foreign credit card or circumvention tooling required.

Is Relace Search compatible with OpenAI code?

Yes. Hormouz exposes an OpenAI-compatible API. Just change the base URL to Hormouz and swap in your Hormouz key. Your existing SDKs and code run without a rewrite.

How does Relace Search work?

It uses parallel file-view and grep tools with agentic multi-step reasoning to find the most relevant files in a codebase.

Relace: Relace Search: AI model

Relace Search is an agentic code-search model that uses parallel file-view and grep tools to find the most relevant files for your request. Reachable from inside Iran through Hormouz.

Context window:: 256,000 tokens
Input:: $1/1M tokens
Output:: $3/1M tokens
Type:: text

Tools
Streaming
Long context

Relace Search is an agentic code-search model that explores a codebase using parallel file-view and grep tools and returns the most relevant files for the user’s request.

Unlike traditional retrieval, Relace Search performs agentic multi-step reasoning to produce highly precise results, and it can serve as a subagent that hands its findings to a primary coding agent. Its context window is up to 256K tokens, and access runs through Hormouz behind an OpenAI-compatible API.

Pricing is usage-based: $1.00 per million input tokens and $3.00 per million output tokens. Hormouz provides stable access to the model from inside Iran.

The relace-search model uses 4-12 view_file and grep tools in parallel to explore a codebase and return relevant files to the user request. In contrast to RAG, relace-search performs agentic...

Quickstart

curl https://api.hormouz.net/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ng-YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "relace/relace-search",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

Specs

Vendor	Relace
Type	Text
Context window	256,000 tokens
Pricing	$1.00/M in · $3.00/M out
API	Chat Completions
Capabilities	Streaming · Tools

Code example

cURL

curl https://api.hormouz.net/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ng-YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "relace/relace-search",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

Python

from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(api_key="ng-YOUR_API_KEY", base_url="https://api.hormouz.net/v1")
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="relace/relace-search",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

JavaScript

import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({ apiKey: "ng-YOUR_API_KEY", baseURL: "https://api.hormouz.net/v1" });
const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "relace/relace-search",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello!" }],
});
console.log(response.choices[0].message.content);

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FAQ

How much does Relace Search cost?: Billing is usage-based: $1.00 per million input tokens and $3.00 per million output tokens.
How do I access Relace Search from inside Iran?: Create an account on Hormouz and generate an API key. Hormouz provides a stable path to the model from inside Iran, with no foreign credit card or circumvention tooling required.
Is Relace Search compatible with OpenAI code?: Yes. Hormouz exposes an OpenAI-compatible API. Just change the base URL to Hormouz and swap in your Hormouz key. Your existing SDKs and code run without a rewrite.
How does Relace Search work?: It uses parallel file-view and grep tools with agentic multi-step reasoning to find the most relevant files in a codebase.
What is Relace Search good for?: It is designed as a search subagent that hands its findings to a primary coding agent; its context window is up to 256K tokens.

Updated 2026-10-13