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Cortex Chat Completions API

The Snowflake Cortex Chat Completions API is a REST API that performs LLM text completion inference using the Cortex Chat Completions (OpenAI-compatible) request format.

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POST /api/v2/cortex/v1/chat/completions Perform LLM text completion inference using Cortex Chat Completions API format. #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Cortex Chat Completions Cortex Generic Openai API
  description: OpenAPI 3.0 specification for the Cortex Chat Completions API
  version: 0.1.0
  contact:
    name: Snowflake, Inc.
    url: https://snowflake.com
    email: support@snowflake.com
security:
- KeyPair: []
- ExternalOAuth: []
- SnowflakeOAuth: []
- ProgrammaticAccessToken: []
tags:
- name: cortex-generic-openai
paths:
  /api/v2/cortex/v1/chat/completions:
    post:
      summary: Perform LLM text completion inference using Cortex Chat Completions API format.
      tags:
      - cortex-generic-openai
      description: Perform LLM text completion inference using Chat Completions API format.
      operationId: cortexGenericOpenAIChatCompletions
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              additionalProperties: true
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OK
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                additionalProperties: true
            text/event-stream:
              schema:
                type: object
                additionalProperties: true
        '400':
          $ref: common.yaml#/components/responses/400BadRequest
        '401':
          $ref: common.yaml#/components/responses/401Unauthorized
        '403':
          $ref: common.yaml#/components/responses/403Forbidden
        '404':
          $ref: common.yaml#/components/responses/404NotFound
        '405':
          $ref: common.yaml#/components/responses/405MethodNotAllowed
        '500':
          $ref: common.yaml#/components/responses/500InternalServerError
        '503':
          $ref: common.yaml#/components/responses/503ServiceUnavailable
        '504':
          $ref: common.yaml#/components/responses/504GatewayTimeout
components:
  securitySchemes:
    KeyPair:
      $ref: common.yaml#/components/securitySchemes/KeyPair
    ExternalOAuth:
      $ref: common.yaml#/components/securitySchemes/ExternalOAuth
    SnowflakeOAuth:
      $ref: common.yaml#/components/securitySchemes/SnowflakeOAuth
    ProgrammaticAccessToken:
      $ref: common.yaml#/components/securitySchemes/ProgrammaticAccessToken