# Cerebras

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/cerebras/  
**Website:** https://cerebras.ai  
**APIs profiled:** 4

Cerebras Systems designs the wafer-scale WSE-3 chip and the CS-2/CS-3 AI systems built around it, and operates Cerebras Inference, a high-throughput cloud platform for running open-source large language models including Llama, Qwen, and DeepSeek families. Cerebras Inference is positioned as one of the fastest token-generation services in the market, with OpenAI-compatible REST endpoints, first-party Python and Node.js SDKs, and dedicated and on-prem deployment options for enterprise customers. The company partners with OpenAI, AWS, GSK, Mayo Clinic, and Notion, and maintains an active open source presence including its model garden and inference cookbook on GitHub.

## Kin Score — 42.4 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 42.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 60.1 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 23.7 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 33.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 47.4 |
| Access Clarity | 47.4 |

## Agent readiness — 29.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Free · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (4)

- **Cerebras Inference API** — The Cerebras Inference API exposes ultra-low-latency inference for open-weight large language models including Llama 3.1, Llama 4, Qwen, and other frontier open models. The API ...
- **Cerebras Chat API** — OpenAI-compatible chat completions.
- **Cerebras Completions API** — Text completions.
- **Cerebras Models API** — Discover available models.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Cerebras Agentic Access** — 3 operations · 2 acting

## Security (3)

- **Cerebras Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Cerebras Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Cerebras Trust Center** — SOC 2, GDPR

## Plans (1)

- **Cerebras Plans Pricing**

## Tags

AI Inference, Large Language Models, Wafer Scale, Hardware, Cloud, OpenAI-Compatible, LLM, SDK, Accelerator, High Performance Computing

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/cerebras/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.