ZotGPT (UC Irvine)

aid: zotgpt
name: ZotGPT (UC Irvine)
description: 'ZotGPT is the University of California, Irvine''s institutionally-operated generative AI platform, built and
  run in-house by the UCI Office of Information Technology AI Team rather than purchased as a vendor seat. Launched to faculty
  and staff in early 2024 and to students in April 2024, it now spans four end-user products (Chat, ClassChat, Creator, Prompt
  Library), a training arm (Academy), and two generations of developer API. The platform is deliberately multi-cloud and multi-model:
  the interactive applications run on UC Irvine''s own AWS accounts in us-west-2 behind Shibboleth SSO, the first-generation
  developer API was fronted by Azure API Management, and models are sourced across OpenAI, Anthropic (via AWS Bedrock), Google,
  Azure, and open-source options such as Mistral and DeepSeek. The deprecated Azure-managed API at api.zotgpt.uci.edu is being
  retired in favor of the ZotGPT Gateway, a Portkey-specification unified AI gateway that gives the campus one endpoint, virtual
  API keys, per-key spend limits, and provider-agnostic model routing. Data is held under UC Irvine''s P3 protection standard,
  retained 12 months, and contractually excluded from vendor model training.'
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: instant
  trial: true
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-28'
  method: searched
position: Provider
access: 1st-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/zotgpt.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zotgpt/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Generative AI
- LLM
- AI Gateway
- Higher Education
- University
- Education
- Multi-Cloud
- Multi-Model
- Chat Completions
- Embeddings
- Model Routing
- Retrieval Augmented Generation
- Identity
- United States
- California
created: '2026-07-28'
modified: '2026-07-28'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: zotgpt:api
  name: ZotGPT API (Deprecated)
  description: 'The first-generation ZotGPT developer API, an OpenAI-compatible chat completions endpoint fronted by Azure
    API Management and available to UCI faculty and staff with "$200 in initial API credits to get started." Documented as
    a bearer-token POST to https://api.zotgpt.uci.edu/v1/chat/completions serving gpt-4o. Access was requested through a ServiceNow
    knowledge article and keys were managed in the Azure API Management developer portal at portal.azureapi.zotgpt.uci.edu.
    UCI has published a three-phase deprecation: new signups frozen, a three-month self-migration window, and then "all remaining
    Azure API keys disabled." Superseded by the ZotGPT Gateway.'
  humanURL: https://zotgpt.uci.edu/services/api/
  baseURL: https://api.zotgpt.uci.edu/v1
  tags:
  - LLM
  - Chat Completions
  - Deprecated
  - Azure API Management
  - OpenAI-Compatible
  tags_raw:
  - LLM
  - Chat Completions
  - Deprecated
  - Azure API Management
  - OpenAI Compatible
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://zotgpt.uci.edu/services/api/
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://portal.azureapi.zotgpt.uci.edu
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/zotgpt-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Deprecation
    url: https://zotgpt.uci.edu/services/migrate-azure-api/
  - type: SignUp
    url: https://uci.service-now.com/sp?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB0013367
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/zotgpt-authentication.yml
  x-evidence:
    verified: '2026-07-28'
    method: docs-read + dns + host-probe
    docs: https://zotgpt.uci.edu/services/api/ names the endpoint https://api.zotgpt.uci.edu/v1/chat/completions, bearer-token
      auth, the gpt-4o model, the $200 credit, and the ServiceNow request path. https://zotgpt.uci.edu/services/migrate-azure-api/
      quotes the old base URL https://api.azureapi.zotgpt.uci.edu/v1 alongside Python client code.
    endpoint_check: 'api.zotgpt.uci.edu and api.azureapi.zotgpt.uci.edu do NOT resolve in public DNS (NXDOMAIN, curl exit
      6) — the data plane is reachable only from inside the campus network or is already withdrawn as part of the deprecation.
      The control plane IS public: the Azure API Management developer portal at https://portal.azureapi.zotgpt.uci.edu returns
      HTTP 200 titled "UC Irvine API Management" with /apis and /products routes, and resolves through oit-apim-usw2.azure-api.net.
      The underlying APIM gateway oit-apim-usw2.azure-api.net answers with an APIM JSON envelope ({"statusCode":404,"message":"Resource
      not found"}), confirming a live Azure API Management instance. No OpenAPI was retrievable anonymously — the portal gates
      specs behind sign-in.'
- aid: zotgpt:zotgpt-gateway-openapi
  name: ZotGPT (UC Irvine) ZotGPT Gateway
  description: ZotGPT (UC Irvine) ZotGPT Gateway from ZotGPT (UC Irvine) — 2 path(s) described in OpenAPI.
  humanURL: https://zotgpt.uci.edu/services/api/
  baseURL: https://api.zotgpt.uci.edu/v1
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/zotgpt-gateway-openapi.yml
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://zotgpt.uci.edu/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://portal.azureapi.zotgpt.uci.edu
- type: Documentation
  url: https://zotgpt.uci.edu/services/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://zotgpt.uci.edu/services/gateway/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://zotgpt.uci.edu/services/gateway/clients/
- type: Support
  url: https://zotgpt.uci.edu/help/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://zotgpt.uci.edu/privacy/
- type: Organization
  url: https://oit.uci.edu
- type: Team
  url: https://zotgpt.uci.edu/team/
- type: Partners
  url: https://zotgpt.uci.edu/partners/
- type: Sustainability
  url: https://zotgpt.uci.edu/sustainability/
- type: Training
  url: https://zotgpt.uci.edu/services/academy/
- type: Prompts
  url: https://zotgpt.uci.edu/prompts/
- type: Marketplace
  url: https://zotgpt.uci.edu/services/marketplace/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.oit.uci.edu/services/ai/
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/zotgpt-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/zotgpt-conventions.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/zotgpt-plans-pricing.yml
- type: Pricing
  url: https://zotgpt.uci.edu/services/gateway/
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/zotgpt-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/zotgpt-finops.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/zotgpt-lifecycle.yml
- type: Deprecation
  url: lifecycle/zotgpt-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/zotgpt-changelog.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/zotgpt-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/zotgpt-packages.yml
- type: Examples
  url: examples/zotgpt-gateway-examples.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/zotgpt-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: conformance/zotgpt-conformance.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/zotgpt-domain-security.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/zotgpt-well-known.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/zotgpt-llms.txt
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com