# Lightning AI Model APIs

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/lightningai/model-apis/  
**Provider:** Lightning.AI — https://apis.io/providers/lightningai/  
**Base URL:** https://lightning.ai/v1  
**Documentation:** https://lightning.ai/docs/platform/inference/model-apis

Lightning AI Model APIs is one of 2 APIs that [Lightning.AI](https://apis.io/providers/lightningai/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include LLM Gateway, Model Inference, and Artificial Intelligence. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, rate-limit docs, and authentication docs.

OpenAI-compatible LLM gateway. Call hosted models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and open-weights providers through a single Bearer-authenticated endpoint with one bill, using provider/model names such as openai/gpt-5 or anthropic/claude-opus-4-8. Every user receives 30 million free tokens per month. The public model catalog is served unauthenticated at https://lightning.ai/api/v1/models.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **Documentation** — https://lightning.ai/docs/platform/inference/model-apis
- **RateLimits** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lightningai/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/lightningai-rate-limits.yml
- **Authentication** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lightningai/refs/heads/main/authentication/lightningai-authentication.yml
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lightningai/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Lightning.AI APIs (1)

- [Lightning AI Platform API](https://apis.io/apis/lightningai/platform-api/)

## Tags

LLM Gateway, Model Inference, Artificial Intelligence

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/lightningai/model-apis/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/lightningai/.