Chutes

Chutes is a permissionless, serverless AI compute platform that lets developers deploy and run any model as an autoscaling "chute" on decentralized GPU capacity (Bittensor Subnet 64). It exposes a single OpenAI-compatible inference endpoint at llm.chutes.ai/v1 for hundreds of open-source LLMs, plus a management REST API at api.chutes.ai for building images and deploying, listing, and operating chutes.

Chutes publishes 4 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Images API, Models API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Artificial Intelligence, LLM, Inference, Serverless, and GPU.

The Chutes catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Chutes’ developer surface includes pricing, authentication, documentation, and 9 more developer resources.

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37.1/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 19/100 agent aware Front door AI 5/6 prominent saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-17 · rubric v0.24.0

AccessPaid

1 published contract

Artificial Intelligence LLM Inference Serverless GPUBittensorReal-Time

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scored 2026-10-17 · rubric v0.24.0

Composite quality — 37.1/100 · thin

Contract Quality 11.0 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 4.5 / 15

Access Clarity 6.3 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.0 / 10

Contract Governance 1.0 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 1.6 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 19/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

The OpenAI Interface reaches core

declared — publishes a spec that declares them

2 core of 338 operations graded · api-commons/models

APIs 4

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Chutes API

Deploy, list, retrieve, update, and delete chutes.

Chutes Images API

Build, list, retrieve, and delete container images.

Chutes Models API

List models available on the Chutes network.

Chutes Chat Completions API

OpenAI-compatible chat completions.

Open Collections 6

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Chutes Chat API

OPEN COLLECTION

Chat Chutes API

OPEN COLLECTION

Chutes Chat Images API

OPEN COLLECTION

Chutes Chat Models API

OPEN COLLECTION

Chutes API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Chutes Plans Pricing

8 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Chutes Rate Limits

6 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Chutes Finops

FINOPS

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Chutes Chat Completions Streaming (HTTP + SSE)

AsyncAPI 2.6 description of Chutes' **chat completion streaming** surface. Chutes does not publish a public WebSocket API. The only asynchronous / event-style transport document...

ASYNCAPI

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Chutes — asyncapi rules

5 rules · 1 errors 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Chutes Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Chutes Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Chutes Agentic Access

17 operations · 8 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: chutes
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/chutes/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Chutes
kind: company
description: Chutes is a permissionless, serverless AI compute platform that lets developers deploy and run any model as an
  autoscaling "chute" on decentralized GPU capacity (Bittensor Subnet 64). It exposes a single OpenAI-compatible inference
  endpoint at llm.chutes.ai/v1 for hundreds of open-source LLMs, plus a management REST API at api.chutes.ai for building
  images and deploying, listing, and operating chutes.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/chutes.png
tags:
- Artificial Intelligence
- LLM
- Inference
- Serverless
- GPU
- Bittensor
- Real-Time
tags_raw:
- AI
- LLM
- Inference
- Serverless
- GPU
- Bittensor
- Real-Time
created: '2026-06-21'
modified: '2026-10-06'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: chutes:chutes-chutes-api
  name: Chutes API
  description: Deploy, list, retrieve, update, and delete chutes.
  humanURL: https://chutes.ai/docs/examples/llm-chat
  baseURL: https://llm.chutes.ai/v1
  tags:
  - Chutes
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chutes-chutes-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://chutes.ai/docs/examples/llm-chat
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://chutes.ai/docs/api-reference/overview
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/chutes-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Postman
    url: collections/chutes.postman_collection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://chutes.ai/docs/core-concepts/cords
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://chutes.ai/docs/getting-started/running-a-chute
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://chutes.ai/docs/api-reference/chutes
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://chutes.ai/docs/core-concepts/templates
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://chutes.ai/docs/api-reference/images
- aid: chutes:chutes-images-api
  name: Chutes Images API
  description: Build, list, retrieve, and delete container images.
  humanURL: https://chutes.ai/docs/examples/llm-chat
  baseURL: https://llm.chutes.ai/v1
  tags:
  - Image
  tags_raw:
  - Images
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chutes-images-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://chutes.ai/docs/examples/llm-chat
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://chutes.ai/docs/api-reference/overview
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/chutes-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Postman
    url: collections/chutes.postman_collection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://chutes.ai/docs/core-concepts/cords
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://chutes.ai/docs/getting-started/running-a-chute
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://chutes.ai/docs/api-reference/chutes
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://chutes.ai/docs/core-concepts/templates
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://chutes.ai/docs/api-reference/images
- aid: chutes:chutes-models-api
  name: Chutes Models API
  description: List models available on the Chutes network.
  humanURL: https://chutes.ai/docs/examples/llm-chat
  baseURL: https://llm.chutes.ai/v1
  tags:
  - Models
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chutes-models-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://chutes.ai/docs/examples/llm-chat
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://chutes.ai/docs/api-reference/overview
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/chutes-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Postman
    url: collections/chutes.postman_collection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://chutes.ai/docs/core-concepts/cords
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://chutes.ai/docs/getting-started/running-a-chute
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://chutes.ai/docs/api-reference/chutes
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://chutes.ai/docs/core-concepts/templates
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://chutes.ai/docs/api-reference/images
- aid: chutes:chutes-chat-completions-api
  name: Chutes Chat Completions API
  description: OpenAI-compatible chat completions.
  humanURL: https://chutes.ai/docs/examples/llm-chat
  baseURL: https://llm.chutes.ai/v1
  tags:
  - Chat Completions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chutes-chat-completions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://chutes.ai/docs/examples/llm-chat
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://chutes.ai/docs/api-reference/overview
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/chutes-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Postman
    url: collections/chutes.postman_collection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://chutes.ai/docs/core-concepts/cords
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://chutes.ai/docs/getting-started/running-a-chute
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://chutes.ai/docs/api-reference/chutes
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://chutes.ai/docs/core-concepts/templates
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://chutes.ai/docs/api-reference/images
common:
- type: Pricing
  url: https://chutes.ai/pricing
- url: https://chutes.ai/news/rss.xml
  type: BlogRSS
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/chutes-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/chutes-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/chutes-authentication.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/rayonlabs
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/chutesai
- type: Website
  url: https://chutes.ai/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://chutes.ai/docs
- type: Plans
  url: plans/chutes-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/chutes-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/chutes-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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