# Lightning AI Platform API

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

Lightning AI Platform API 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 Developer Tools, MLOps, and Deployment. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and authentication docs.

The v1 REST surface behind the Lightning AI platform — Studios, Jobs, multi-machine training, Deployments, Sandboxes, teamspaces, memberships, datasets and the model checkpoint registry. Authenticated with HTTP Basic using LIGHTNING_USER_ID and LIGHTNING_API_KEY, and reachable from the CLI with `lightning api <endpoint>` for anything the SDK does not wrap.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://lightning.ai/docs/platform/developers/sdk
- **Authentication** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lightningai/refs/heads/main/authentication/lightningai-authentication.yml
- **Conventions** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lightningai/refs/heads/main/conventions/lightningai-conventions.yml

## Other Lightning.AI APIs (1)

- [Lightning AI Model APIs](https://apis.io/apis/lightningai/model-apis/)

## Tags

Developer Tools, MLOps, Deployment

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