Feature

OpenAI-Compatible API

Drop-in compatibility with the OpenAI request shape.

21 providers 115 APIs 18 declared variants

The endpoint mirrors the OpenAI API surface, so existing clients and frameworks work by changing a base URL. Removes almost all switching cost between model providers.

21 API providers on the APIs.io network offer openai-compatible api. The highest-rated are Vapi, NVIDIA NIM, Cloudflare, Hyperbolic, AIMLAPI.

Providers

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

Exemplar 2 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 5 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 4 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 6 Limited public surface area
Emerging 3 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface

What Providers Actually Declared

This feature is a canonical term. These are the free-text strings providers wrote in their own apis.yml that map onto it.

Bring-your-own model — any OpenAI-compatible endpoint (OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, vLLM, Ollama, local models) via declarative `model_client` config; AutoGen Extensions provides first-party clientsChats API (text channel) and OpenAI-compatible /chat/responsesIO Intelligence — OpenAI-compatible inference API for 15+ open-source models including Llama 3.3 70BLocal model providers — Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM, custom OpenAI-compatible endpointsOpenAI-Compatible APIOpenAI-Compatible InferenceOpenAI-compatible /v1/chat/completions, /v1/completions, /v1/embeddings, /v1/modelsOpenAI-compatible AI gateway at `https://gateway.glama.ai/v1`OpenAI-compatible Chat CompletionsOpenAI-compatible Chat Completions APIOpenAI-compatible Chat Completions endpointOpenAI-compatible REST API at https://api.hyperbolic.xyz/v1 — drop-in replacement requiring only api_key and base_url changesOpenAI-compatible REST surface — /v1/chat/completions, /v1/completions, /v1/embeddings, /v1/models, /v1/rankingOpenAI-compatible Responses endpoint (/api/v1/responses) so OpenAI clients can target a Langflow flowOpenAI-compatible and Anthropic-compatible function-definition output formatsOpenAI-compatible chat completions endpoint with attached toolsProvider AbstractionWorkers AI catalog of 78+ open-source models with OpenAI-compatible endpoints

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