# Welcome to Spice.ai

Welcome to the Spice.ai Cloud Platform!

The **Spice.ai Cloud Platform** is an AI application and agent cloud — an AI-backend-as-a-service with composable, ready-to-use building blocks including high-speed SQL query, LLM inference, vector search, and RAG, built on cloud-scale, managed [Spice.ai OSS](https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai).

- [Get Started](https://spice.ai/docs/cloud/getting-started/get-started): Sign up and run your first query in minutes
- [Federated SQL Query](https://spice.ai/docs/features/federated-sql-query): Query across any data source with one SQL interface
- [AI Gateway](https://spice.ai/docs/features/ai-gateway): OpenAI-compatible API for LLM inference
- [Search & Retrieval](https://spice.ai/docs/features/search-and-retrieval): Vector and hybrid search for RAG workflows
- [Data Connectors](https://spice.ai/docs/building-blocks/data-connectors): Connect to 30+ databases, warehouses, and lakes
- [Monitoring](https://spice.ai/docs/cloud/monitoring): Observe performance with Grafana, Datadog, and more

## What You Can Do

With the **Spice.ai Cloud Platform** you can:

- **Query and accelerate data** — Run high-performance SQL queries across multiple data sources with results optimized for AI applications and agents.
- **Use AI models** — Perform LLM inference with OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and more for chat, completion, and generative AI workflows.
- **Build agentic AI apps** — Combine data, models, search, and tools into production-grade AI agent backends.
- **Collaborate on Spicepods** — Share, fork, and manage datasets, models, embeddings, evals, and tools in a collaborative hub indexed by [spicerack.org](https://spicerack.org/).

**Quick Start**

Get up and running in minutes:

1. [Sign in with GitHub](https://spice.ai/docs/cloud/getting-started/get-started/portal-login)
2. [Create a Spice project](https://spice.ai/docs/cloud/getting-started/getting-started/portal-login-1)
3. [Add a dataset and query data](https://spice.ai/docs/cloud/getting-started/get-started/step-2-add-dataset-and-query-data)

Optional, with an OpenAI, Anthropic, or xAI API key: [Add an AI model and chat with your data](https://spice.ai/docs/cloud/getting-started/get-started/step-3-add-ai-model-and-chat-with-your-app)

- [Get started](https://spice.ai/docs/cloud/getting-started/get-started)
- [API reference](https://spice.ai/docs/cloud/api/sql-query)

query.py

```python
from spicepy import Client

client = Client("YOUR_API_KEY")
reader = client.query(
    "SELECT * FROM my_table LIMIT 10"
)
df = reader.read_pandas()
print(df)
```

## Community & Support

- **Slack** — Ask questions and get help from the team at [spice.ai/slack](https://spice.ai/slack).
- **GitHub** — File issues and contribute at [github.com/spiceai/spiceai](https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai).
- **Enterprise support** — [Paid plans](https://spice.ai/docs/cloud/pricing/plans) include priority support with an SLA.
- **Help Center** — Browse the [Help Center](https://spice.ai/docs/help) for troubleshooting, guides, and FAQs.