# ZotGPT (UC Irvine)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/zotgpt/  
**Website:** https://zotgpt.uci.edu/  
**APIs profiled:** 2

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.

## Kin Score — 48.6 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 48.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 15.5 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 55.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 66.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 68.4 |
| Access Clarity | 68.4 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 48.1 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 40.8 (agent-ready)

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

## Access

Free — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: yes (confidence: high).

## APIs (2)

- **ZotGPT API (Deprecated)** — 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 in...
- **ZotGPT (UC Irvine) ZotGPT Gateway** — ZotGPT (UC Irvine) ZotGPT Gateway from ZotGPT (UC Irvine) — 2 path(s) described in OpenAPI.

## Security (2)

- **Zotgpt Authentication** — 3 schemes
- **Zotgpt Domain Security** — no transport/DNS hardening detected

## Plans (1)

- **Zotgpt Plans Pricing**

## 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

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