Sahara AI

Sahara AI is a decentralized AI platform (backed by Pantera Capital) building infrastructure for the agentic economy: an AI Developer Platform for building agents, managing datasets, and accessing compute; an AI Marketplace for publishing and monetizing AI solutions; a Data Services Platform for collecting, labeling, and validating training data; consumer agents such as Sorin (autonomous trading); and the Sahara blockchain with the $SAHARA token for settlement and governance. Its developer-facing surface is an OpenAI-compatible Compute API that routes inference across multiple upstream providers (OpenAI, Lepton, Together, and others) alongside model- and provider-discovery endpoints, authenticated with an API key.

Sahara AI publishes 2 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network: Discovery API and Inference API. Tagged areas include Company, Cryptocurrency, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Agents.

The Sahara AI catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Sahara AI’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, engineering blog, support, pricing, signup flow, and 17 more developer resources.

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44.1/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware Front door AI 6/6 dominant Heartbeat 52/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract 1 Agent Skills

Company Cryptocurrency Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Agents Compute Blockchain Inference Data

What this lets a business do 2

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Information & Data Management

BC-610

Inference

POST /compute/chat/completions

AI Model Services

AE-110

Discovery

GET /compute/models GET /compute/providers

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 44.1/100 · developing

Contract Quality 9.8 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 8.8 / 15

Access Clarity 6.7 / 15

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 10

Contract Governance 1.6 / 9

Discoverability 5.5 / 8

Regulatory Posture 3.4 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 20/100 · 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 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 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

Pagination 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document

9 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Operational Transparency scores 2.6 — up to +12.7 composite points
Contract Quality scores 52.3 — up to +11.9 composite points
Access Clarity scores 44.7 — up to +11.1 composite points

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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.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 2

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

Sahara AI Discovery API

Discover models and compute providers available on the network.

Sahara AI Inference API

OpenAI-compatible chat completion inference.

Open Collections 2

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

Sahara AI Compute Discovery API

OPEN COLLECTION

Sahara AI Compute Discovery Inference API

OPEN COLLECTION

Agent Skills 1

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

Run OpenAI-compatible inference on Sahara AI

AGENT SKILL

Sahara AI API pricing

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Sahara Ai Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

FinOps 1

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

Sahara Ai Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Sahara AI API Rules

58 rules · 56 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

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.

Sahara Ai Compute Overlay

3 actions · update · sahara-ai-compute-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Security Posture 2

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

Sahara Ai Authentication

apiKey/http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Sahara Ai Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Sahara Ai Agentic Access

4 operations · 1 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

WellKnown

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

Conformance

Conventions

Conventions

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

Support

Support

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: sahara-ai
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: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/sahara-ai.png
name: Sahara AI
description: 'Sahara AI is a decentralized AI platform (backed by Pantera Capital) building infrastructure for the agentic
  economy: an AI Developer Platform for building agents, managing datasets, and accessing compute; an AI Marketplace for publishing
  and monetizing AI solutions; a Data Services Platform for collecting, labeling, and validating training data; consumer agents
  such as Sorin (autonomous trading); and the Sahara blockchain with the $SAHARA token for settlement and governance. Its
  developer-facing surface is an OpenAI-compatible Compute API that routes inference across multiple upstream providers (OpenAI,
  Lepton, Together, and others) alongside model- and provider-discovery endpoints, authenticated with an API key.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sahara-ai/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- pantera-capital
x-docs-platform: gitbook
x-docs-platform-confidence: high
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-04
tags:
- Company
- Cryptocurrency
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Agents
- Compute
- Blockchain
- Inference
- Data
tags_raw:
- Company
- Crypto
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Agents
- Compute
- Blockchain
- Inference
- Data
- Machine-Learning
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
apis:
- aid: sahara-ai:sahara-ai-discovery-api
  name: Sahara AI Discovery API
  description: Discover models and compute providers available on the network.
  humanURL: https://docs.saharaai.com/developer-docs-ai-developer-portal/api-documentation
  baseURL: https://app.saharaai.com/developer/api
  tags:
  - Discovery
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sahara-ai-discovery-api-openapi.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/sahara-ai-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/sahara-ai-data-model.yml
- aid: sahara-ai:sahara-ai-inference-api
  name: Sahara AI Inference API
  description: OpenAI-compatible chat completion inference.
  humanURL: https://docs.saharaai.com/developer-docs-ai-developer-portal/api-documentation
  baseURL: https://app.saharaai.com/developer/api
  tags:
  - Inference
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sahara-ai-inference-api-openapi.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/sahara-ai-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/sahara-ai-data-model.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/sahara-ai-plans-pricing.yml
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/sahara-ai-capability-edges.yml
  name: Sahara AI Business Capability Map
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/sahara-ai-compute-overlay.yaml
- type: Website
  url: https://saharaai.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://app.saharaai.com/developer-platform/main/explore
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.saharaai.com/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.saharaai.com/developer-docs-ai-developer-portal/api-documentation
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.saharaai.com/developer-docs-ai-developer-portal/quick-start-guide
- type: Blog
  url: https://saharaai.com/blog
- type: Support
  url: https://saharaai.com/community
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/SaharaAI-Agents
- type: Pricing
  url: https://docs.saharaai.com/developer-docs-ai-developer-portal/credits-and-billing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://app.saharaai.com/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://saharaai.com/legal/terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://saharaai.com/legal/privacy-policy
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/sahara-ai-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/sahara-ai-well-known.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/sahara-ai-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: Conformance
  url: conformance/sahara-ai-conformance.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/sahara-ai-conventions.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/sahara-ai-domain-security.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/sahara-ai-agentic-access.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/sahara-ai-authentication.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: enriched
  pass: local-v1
  artifacts_added: 14

Sahara AI API — frequently asked questions

Does Sahara AI have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from Sahara AI, including Sahara AI Discovery API and Sahara AI Inference API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Sahara AI API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 2 OpenAPI specifications for Sahara AI, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Sahara AI API?

Sahara AI uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey/http · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Sahara Ai Authentication.

Is the Sahara AI API ready for AI agents?

Sahara AI has a Kin Score of 44.1 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 19.9 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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