# King's e-Research AI Hub API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/kings-college-london/er-ai-hub/  
**Provider:** King's College London — https://apis.io/providers/kings-college-london/  
**Base URL:** https://ai.create.kcl.ac.uk/api/v1  
**Documentation:** https://docs.er.kcl.ac.uk/CREATE/ai_hub/

King's e-Research AI Hub API is one of 6 APIs that [King's College London](https://apis.io/providers/kings-college-london/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Artificial Intelligence, LLM, Inference, Research Computing, and OpenAI-Compatible. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an API reference, authentication docs, and a support channel.

An OpenAI-compatible LLM inference API operated by King's e-Research for researchers, students and staff. Per King's documentation it serves chat completions against a curated set of hosted models, image generation, streaming responses, RAG pipelines over user documents, deep-research and agent workflows, and integrations with VS Code, OpenCode and MCP servers — all reachable by pointing an official OpenAI client at a new base URL with an AI Hub API key. New accounts receive an allocation of free tokens; sustained use is metered against a project budget. Verified live from outside: GET /api/v1/models answers 401 application/json with the OpenAI error envelope, and answers differently for a missing header than for an unknown key. No OpenAPI is saved for this surface, because King's publishes none — the API reference at /docs is behind Microsoft Entra ID sign-in, and authoring a contract from two probed responses would credit King's with a document it has not written. This is the single most consequential finding of the re-profile: a research university that built and operates its own agent-facing inference API.

## Machine-readable artifacts (7)

- **Documentation** — https://docs.er.kcl.ac.uk/CREATE/ai_hub/
- **Website** — https://ai.create.kcl.ac.uk/
- **APIReference** — https://ai.create.kcl.ac.uk/docs
- **Authentication** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kings-college-london/refs/heads/main/authentication/kings-college-london-authentication.yml
- **Errors** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kings-college-london/refs/heads/main/errors/kings-college-london-problem-types.yml
- **Support** — https://docs.er.kcl.ac.uk/CREATE/getting_help/
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kings-college-london/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other King's College London APIs (5)

- [King's Research Portal (Pure) OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/kings-college-london/pure-oai/)
- [King's College London Research Data Repository (Figshare tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/kings-college-london/figshare-repository/)
- [King's UK Access Management Federation / eduGAIN Identity Provider](https://apis.io/apis/kings-college-london/uk-federation-idp/)
- [King's LibrarySearch (Ex Libris Primo)](https://apis.io/apis/kings-college-london/librarysearch-primo/)
- [KEATS Virtual Learning Environment (Moodle) web services](https://apis.io/apis/kings-college-london/keats-moodle/)

## Tags

Artificial Intelligence, LLM, Inference, Research Computing, OpenAI-Compatible

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