# Cerebras Inference API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/cerebras/cerebras-inference-api/  
**Provider:** Cerebras — https://apis.io/providers/cerebras/  
**Base URL:** https://api.cerebras.ai/v1  
**Documentation:** https://inference-docs.cerebras.ai

Cerebras Inference API is one of 4 APIs that [Cerebras](https://apis.io/providers/cerebras/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Inference, LLM, Chat Completions, OpenAI-Compatible, and Streaming. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and a getting-started guide.

The Cerebras Inference API exposes ultra-low-latency inference for open-weight large language models including Llama 3.1, Llama 4, Qwen, and other frontier open models. The API is OpenAI-compatible at the chat completions surface, supports streaming, and is consumed via first-party Python and Node.js SDKs as well as raw HTTP. Dedicated and on-prem deployments are available for production workloads.

## Machine-readable artifacts (8)

- **Documentation** — https://inference-docs.cerebras.ai
- **GettingStarted** — https://inference-docs.cerebras.ai/quickstart
- **SDKs** — https://github.com/Cerebras/cerebras-cloud-sdk-python
- **SDKs** — https://github.com/Cerebras/cerebras-cloud-sdk-node
- **Cookbook** — https://github.com/Cerebras/Cerebras-Inference-Cookbook
- **VSCodeExtension** — https://github.com/Cerebras/vscode-cerebras-chat
- **Documentation** — https://github.com/Cerebras/cerebras-code-mcp
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cerebras/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Cerebras APIs (3)

- [Cerebras Chat API](https://apis.io/apis/cerebras/cerebras-chat-api/)
- [Cerebras Completions API](https://apis.io/apis/cerebras/cerebras-completions-api/)
- [Cerebras Models API](https://apis.io/apis/cerebras/cerebras-models-api/)

## Tags

Inference, LLM, Chat Completions, OpenAI-Compatible, Streaming, REST

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