# Kinference Picker gRPC API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/kinference-ai/kinference-picker-grpc-api/  
**Provider:** Kinference — https://apis.io/providers/kinference-ai/  
**Documentation:** https://kinference.ai/docs/reference/

Kinference Picker gRPC API is one of 2 APIs that [Kinference](https://apis.io/providers/kinference-ai/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include gRPC and Inference Routing. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes a GitHub repository.

The kinference.v1 Picker gRPC service used by the Kinference router - given an inference request it picks a model and destination (a local inference engine pod or an off-cluster provider), with streaming PushBody/PullBody, Pick, ReportFirstToken, ReportFinalToken and Abort RPCs. Self-hosted inside the customer's Kubernetes cluster, so there is no public base URL. Contract published by Buoyant in the Kinference-AI/kinference repository.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **Protobuf** — https://artifacts.apis.io/kinference-ai/grpc/kinference-ai-router.proto
- **Protobuf** — https://github.com/Kinference-AI/kinference/blob/main/crates/kinference-router/proto/kinference.proto
- **GitHubRepository** — https://github.com/Kinference-AI/kinference
- **APIsJSON** — https://artifacts.apis.io/kinference-ai/apis.yml

## Other Kinference APIs (1)

- [Kinference Kubernetes CRD API](https://apis.io/apis/kinference-ai/kinference-kubernetes-crd-api/)

## Tags

gRPC, Inference Routing

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