# Inference

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/inference/  
**Website:** https://inference.net  
**APIs profiled:** 1

Inference (inference.net) is an AI infrastructure platform for AI-native teams. It offers an OpenAI-compatible inference API for open-source, frontier, and custom fine-tuned language models, alongside Catalyst — its observability, tracing, evaluation, training, and deployment platform. Developers call chat completions, batch/async inference, function calling, structured outputs, and vision endpoints at https://api.inference.net/v1 using a Bearer API key; route and monitor traffic through the Catalyst Gateway; fine-tune and deploy custom models; and optimize agents end to end with HALO. The platform ships a first-party CLI (inf), a hosted MCP server, and webhooks for asynchronous inference. Backed by Multicoin Capital.

## Kin Score — 57.2 / 100 (strong)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 57.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 51.6 |
| Governance | 12.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 44.7 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 63.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 84.2 |

## Agent readiness — 44.6 (agent-ready)

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

## Access

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

## APIs (1)

- **Inference.net API** — OpenAI-compatible inference API for open-source, frontier, and custom language models — chat completions, batch/async inference, function calling, structured outputs, and vision...

## MCP servers (1)

- **inference-mcp.yml**

## Security (2)

- **Inference Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Inference Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Inference Plans**

## Tags

Company, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, LLM, Inference, Observability, Model Training, Model Deployment, MCP, Crypto Web3

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