Feature

LLM Inference

Hosted model inference endpoints.

13 providers 62 APIs 12 declared variants

The provider serves text, chat, or completion inference against hosted models, usually with streaming and token-based billing. Integrators care about model choice, context window, and latency.

13 API providers on the APIs.io network offer llm inference. The highest-rated are Hugging Face, NVIDIA NIM, AIMLAPI, Azure Databricks, Kong.

Providers

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 2 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Hugging FaceThe AI community building the future with open-source machine learning models, datasets, and applications.6 APIs68.9NVIDIA NIMNVIDIA NIM (NVIDIA Inference Microservices) is a catalog of GPU-accelerated, containerized AI inference mic...3 APIs68.3
Strong 8 Solid coverage with minor gaps
AIMLAPIAIMLAPI is a unified AI model API gateway providing access to 400+ state-of-the-art AI models from OpenAI, ...2 APIs65.5Azure DatabricksAzure Databricks is an Apache Spark-based analytics platform optimized for Microsoft Azure. It provides a c...1 API63.4KongKong is the AI Connectivity Company. Its platform spans Kong Gateway (the open-source API gateway built on ...2 APIs62.0ViamViam is a robotics and edge AI platform founded in 2020 by Eliot Horowitz (MongoDB co-founder and former CT...13 APIs60.2ChatGPTOpenAI's ChatGPT API for conversational AI and language model interactions.2 APIs59.7HyperbolicHyperbolic is an open-access AI cloud and decentralized GPU marketplace serving 200,000+ builders with affo...5 APIs59.4DatabricksCollection of Databricks REST APIs for managing workspaces, clusters, jobs, and data operations.1 API56.7Advanced Micro DevicesAdvanced Micro Devices (AMD) is a global semiconductor company that develops high-performance computing, gr...2 APIs55.2
Developing 2 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
VespaVespa is an open-source AI search engine, big-data serving engine, and vector database originally developed...3 APIs52.6Kong AI GatewayKong AI Gateway is the AI-native capability layer built on top of Kong Gateway and managed through Kong Kon...21 APIs40.2
Thin 1 Limited public surface area
MarqoMarqo is an open-source, multimodal vector search engine that lets developers index text and images, genera...1 API38.7

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100+ foundation models exposed through a single API contract — Llama 3.1/3.2/3.3, Mistral, Mixtral, NVIDIA Nemotron, DeepSeek-R1, Qwen 2.5, Microsoft Phi, Google Gemma, IBM Granite, and FalconAI Model ServingChat CompletionsCoinbase x402 payment integration for crypto-native chat completionsModel InferenceModel Serving for low-latency inferenceModel serving endpoints for real-time inferenceNative tensor and ML model inference at serving timeService APIs for motion planning, vision, SLAM, navigation, data management, ML model inference, sensors aggregation, world state, discovery, and generic servicesSingle `docker run` install bundling Vespa storage and embedding model inferenceText and Chat CompletionsUniversal LLM API

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