Gradient

Gradient is a decentralized AI infrastructure company building the Open Intelligence Stack — a peer-powered, sovereign alternative to centralized AI clouds. Its stack pairs Parallax (a distributed model-serving / world inference engine that turns heterogeneous machines into one AI cluster), Lattica (a universal peer-to-peer data-motion engine that moves model weights and inference tokens across a global machine mesh), Echo (distributed reinforcement learning) and Symphony (a decentralized multi-agent framework). Gradient Cloud is the enterprise inference offering, exposing an OpenAI-compatible REST API (model listing, chat completion, and text completion, streaming or non-streaming) at apis.gradient.network. The projects run atop a Solana-based network whose Sentry Node browser extension let contributors share edge compute. Gradient is backed by Multicoin Capital and Wing Venture Capital.

Gradient publishes 3 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network: Completions API, Models API, and Chat Completions API. Tagged areas include Company, Crypto Web3, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Inference.

Gradient’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, engineering blog, support, authentication, changelog, CLI, and 15 more developer resources.

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24.0/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 29/100 agent ready Front door AI 3/6 light Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-09 · rubric v0.23.0

1 published contract

Company Crypto Web3 Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Inference Decentralized Infrastructure Distributed Computing Edge Computing Developer Tools Web3

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scored 2026-10-09 · rubric v0.23.0

Composite quality — 24.0/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 2.7 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 8.1 / 15

Access Clarity 0.0 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.8 / 10

Contract Governance 0.4 / 9

Discoverability 5.5 / 8

Regulatory Posture 2.3 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 29/100 · agent ready

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 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 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

prose — states compatibility; nothing published to check it against

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

APIs 3

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

Gradient Completions API

Text completion

Gradient Models API

Model listing and management

Gradient Chat Completions API

Chat completion

Open Collections 4

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

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Gradient Cloud AI Chat API

OPEN COLLECTION

Gradient Cloud AI Chat Completions API

OPEN COLLECTION

Gradient Cloud AI Chat Models API

OPEN COLLECTION

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Gradient Cloud Overlay

3 actions · update · gradient-cloud-openapi.yml

GENERATED

Security Posture 2

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

Gradient Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Gradient Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Gradient Agentic Access

3 operations · 2 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conventions

DataModel

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

CLI

CLI

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: gradient
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/gradient.png
name: Gradient
description: Gradient is a decentralized AI infrastructure company building the Open Intelligence Stack — a peer-powered,
  sovereign alternative to centralized AI clouds. Its stack pairs Parallax (a distributed model-serving / world inference
  engine that turns heterogeneous machines into one AI cluster), Lattica (a universal peer-to-peer data-motion engine that
  moves model weights and inference tokens across a global machine mesh), Echo (distributed reinforcement learning) and Symphony
  (a decentralized multi-agent framework). Gradient Cloud is the enterprise inference offering, exposing an OpenAI-compatible
  REST API (model listing, chat completion, and text completion, streaming or non-streaming) at apis.gradient.network. The
  projects run atop a Solana-based network whose Sentry Node browser extension let contributors share edge compute. Gradient
  is backed by Multicoin Capital and Wing Venture Capital.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/gradient/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- multicoin-capital
- wing-venture-capital
x-tier: enriched
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead-enriched
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
x-docs-platform: gitbook
x-docs-platform-confidence: high
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-03
tags:
- Company
- Crypto Web3
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Inference
- Decentralized Infrastructure
- Distributed Computing
- Edge Computing
- Developer Tools
- Web3
tags_raw:
- Company
- Crypto Web3
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- LLM Inference
- Decentralized Infrastructure
- Distributed Computing
- Edge Computing
- Developer Tools
- Machine-Learning
- Web3
apis:
- aid: gradient:gradient-completions-api
  name: Gradient Completions API
  description: Text completion
  humanURL: https://docs.gradient.network/enterprise-solutions/gradient-cloud/api-reference-documentation
  baseURL: https://apis.gradient.network/api/v1
  tags:
  - Completions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/gradient-completions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.gradient.network/enterprise-solutions/gradient-cloud/api-reference-documentation
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.gradient.network
- aid: gradient:gradient-models-api
  name: Gradient Models API
  description: Model listing and management
  humanURL: https://docs.gradient.network/enterprise-solutions/gradient-cloud/api-reference-documentation
  baseURL: https://apis.gradient.network/api/v1
  tags:
  - Models
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/gradient-models-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.gradient.network/enterprise-solutions/gradient-cloud/api-reference-documentation
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.gradient.network
- aid: gradient:gradient-chat-completions-api
  name: Gradient Chat Completions API
  description: Chat completion
  humanURL: https://docs.gradient.network/enterprise-solutions/gradient-cloud/api-reference-documentation
  baseURL: https://apis.gradient.network/api/v1
  tags:
  - Chat Completions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/gradient-chat-completions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.gradient.network/enterprise-solutions/gradient-cloud/api-reference-documentation
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.gradient.network
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://gradient.network
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.gradient.network
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.gradient.network
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.gradient.network/enterprise-solutions/gradient-cloud/api-reference-documentation
- type: Blog
  url: https://gradient.network/blog
- type: Support
  url: https://discord.com/invite/gradientnetwork
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/GradientHQ
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/gradient-llms.txt
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/gradient-authentication.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/gradient-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/gradient-domain-security.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/gradient-packages.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/gradient-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/gradient-cloud-overlay.yaml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/gradient-conformance.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/gradient-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/gradient-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/gradient-conventions.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/gradient-changelog.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/gradient-cli.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/gradient-data-model.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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