# ELM — Edinburgh Language Models API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-edinburgh/elm-api/  
**Provider:** University of Edinburgh — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-edinburgh/  
**Base URL:** https://elm.edina.ac.uk/api/v1  
**Documentation:** https://information-services.ed.ac.uk/computing/comms-and-collab/elm

ELM — Edinburgh Language Models API is one of 10 APIs that [University of Edinburgh](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-edinburgh/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Artificial Intelligence, LLM, Gateway, and Gated. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and authentication docs.

OpenAI-compatible generative-AI gateway built and run by EDINA at the University of Edinburgh, described by its own metadata as delivering generative AI to UK tertiary education. /api/v1/models and /api/v1/chat/completions both answer 401 with an OpenAI-shaped error envelope without a bearer token, which is what establishes the routes and the auth scheme; /health returns 200. No public self-service registration and no published OpenAPI (/openapi.json returns the SPA shell). This is the clearest case in the profile of Edinburgh acting as an API producer rather than a buyer.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-edinburgh/refs/heads/main/openapi/university-of-edinburgh-elm-api-openapi.yml
- **Documentation** — https://information-services.ed.ac.uk/computing/comms-and-collab/elm
- **Authentication** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-edinburgh/refs/heads/main/authentication/university-of-edinburgh-authentication.yml
- **Errors** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-edinburgh/refs/heads/main/errors/university-of-edinburgh-errors.yml

## Other University of Edinburgh APIs (9)

- [Edinburgh DataShare REST API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-edinburgh/datashare-repository-api/)
- [Edinburgh DataShare OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-edinburgh/datashare-oai/)
- [Edinburgh Research Archive (ERA) REST API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-edinburgh/era-repository-api/)
- [Edinburgh Research Archive (ERA) OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-edinburgh/era-oai/)
- [EIDF Data Catalogue API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-edinburgh/eidf-data-catalogue-api/)
- [University of Edinburgh Shibboleth Identity Provider](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-edinburgh/identity-federation/)
- [Enterprise API Gateway (gated)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-edinburgh/enterprise-api-gateway/)
- [Edinburgh Research Explorer (Elsevier Pure) — tenant](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-edinburgh/pure-research-explorer/)
- [DiscoverEd Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo) — tenant](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-edinburgh/discovered-primo/)

## Tags

Artificial Intelligence, LLM, Gateway, Gated

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