LLM Gateway Key API

The Key API from LLM Gateway — 1 operation(s) for key.

Operations 1

GET /v1/key Retrieve key status #

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OpenAPI Specification

llmgateway-io-key-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  version: 1.0.0
  title: LLM Gateway Key API
  description: 'OpenAI-compatible LLM gateway: chat completions, embeddings, images, audio, video, moderation, OCR, rerank, web search and typed decisions across providers with one API key.'
servers:
- url: https://api.llmgateway.io
- url: http://localhost:4001
tags:
- name: Key
paths:
  /v1/key:
    get:
      operationId: v1_key_retrieve
      summary: Retrieve key status
      description: Returns usage information for the API key used to authenticate the request, including the organization's dev plan allowance and weekly premium-model usage. Lets clients that only hold an API key surface remaining quota without a dashboard session. Deliberately excludes billing details and the key token itself.
      security:
      - bearerAuth: []
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Status of the API key and its organization's dev plan.
          headers:
            RateLimit-Policy:
              schema:
                type: string
              description: Quota policy as an HTTP Structured Fields list, e.g. "requests";q=60;w=60.
            RateLimit:
              schema:
                type: string
              description: Available quota and reset delay, e.g. "requests";r=59;t=60.
            RateLimit-Limit:
              schema:
                type: string
              description: Request limit for the current window.
            RateLimit-Remaining:
              schema:
                type: string
              description: Requests remaining in the current window.
            RateLimit-Reset:
              schema:
                type: string
              description: Seconds until the current window resets.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  data:
                    type: object
                    properties:
                      label:
                        type: string
                        description: Description of the API key used for the request.
                      usage:
                        type: string
                        description: Total usage in USD accrued by this API key.
                      limit:
                        type:
                        - string
                        - 'null'
                        description: Usage limit in USD set on this API key, if any.
                      devPlan:
                        type: string
                        enum:
                        - none
                        - lite
                        - pro
                        - max
                        description: Dev plan tier of the organization this key belongs to. 'none' for pay-as-you-go organizations.
                      devPlanCreditsUsed:
                        type: string
                        description: Plan credits used in the current billing cycle, in USD.
                      devPlanCreditsLimit:
                        type: string
                        description: Plan credit allowance per billing cycle, in USD.
                      devPlanCreditsRemaining:
                        type: string
                        description: Plan credits remaining in the current billing cycle.
                      devPlanPremiumWeeklyLimit:
                        type: string
                        description: Weekly fair-use allowance for premium models, in USD of plan credits.
                      devPlanPremiumCreditsUsed:
                        type: string
                        description: Premium-model plan credits used in the current weekly window.
                      devPlanPremiumWeekResetsAt:
                        type:
                        - string
                        - 'null'
                        description: When the current premium weekly window resets (ISO 8601), or null when no window is active.
                    required:
                    - label
                    - usage
                    - limit
                    - devPlan
                    - devPlanCreditsUsed
                    - devPlanCreditsLimit
                    - devPlanCreditsRemaining
                    - devPlanPremiumWeeklyLimit
                    - devPlanPremiumCreditsUsed
                    - devPlanPremiumWeekResetsAt
                required:
                - data
        '400':
          description: Invalid request body or parameters.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/OpenAIError'
        '401':
          description: Missing or invalid API key.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/OpenAIError'
        '402':
          description: Insufficient credits or plan limits reached.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/OpenAIError'
        '403':
          description: Forbidden request or upstream response.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/OpenAIError'
        '404':
          description: Unknown model or upstream not-found response.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/OpenAIError'
        '408':
          description: Request timeout.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/OpenAIError'
        '410':
          description: Archived or unavailable project.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/OpenAIError'
        '413':
          description: Request too large.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/OpenAIError'
        '415':
          description: Unsupported media type.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/OpenAIError'
        '429':
          description: Rate limited. Response headers describe only LLMGateway-enforced limits; upstream provider headers are not forwarded. Honor Retry-After when present.
          headers:
            RateLimit-Policy:
              schema:
                type: string
              description: Quota policy as an HTTP Structured Fields list, e.g. "requests";q=60;w=60.
            RateLimit:
              schema:
                type: string
              description: Available quota and reset delay, e.g. "requests";r=59;t=60.
            RateLimit-Limit:
              schema:
                type: string
              description: Request limit for the current window.
            RateLimit-Remaining:
              schema:
                type: string
              description: Requests remaining in the current window.
            RateLimit-Reset:
              schema:
                type: string
              description: Seconds until the current window resets.
            Retry-After:
              schema:
                type: string
              description: Seconds to wait before retrying.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/OpenAIError'
        '500':
          description: Internal server error.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/OpenAIError'
        '502':
          description: Failed to connect to the upstream provider.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/OpenAIError'
        '503':
          description: Service unavailable upstream response.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/OpenAIError'
        '504':
          description: Upstream provider timeout.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/OpenAIError'
        '529':
          description: Gateway overloaded.
          headers:
            Retry-After:
              schema:
                type: string
              description: Seconds to wait before retrying.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/OpenAIError'
      tags:
      - Key
components:
  schemas:
    OpenAIError:
      type: object
      properties:
        error:
          type: object
          properties:
            message:
              type: string
            type:
              type: string
            param:
              type:
              - string
              - 'null'
            code:
              type:
              - string
              - 'null'
          required:
          - message
          - type
          - param
          - code
      required:
      - error
      description: OpenAI-compatible error object.
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: Bearer token authentication using API keys
externalDocs:
  url: https://docs.llmgateway.io
  description: LLMGateway Documentation