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AIMLAPI — Unified AI/ML API. Documentation portal

One API to access 500+ AI models for chat, image, video, audio, code, embeddings and vision. Single integration for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, ByteDance, DeepSeek, Kling AI, Alibaba Cloud, MiniMax, ElevenLabs and more.

Authentication

• API Key via Authorization header: Authorization: Bearer YOUR_AIMLAPI_KEY

• Manage API keys in dashboard

Key Links

• Documentation

• Playground

• Models List

• Full OpenAPI Spec

• Pricing

• How to use account, playground, API keys, dashboards, manage billing, and more

Compatibility

• OpenAI-compatible API

• Anthropic-compatible API

• Supports streaming responses

• Supports multimodal inputs

• Supports tool calling / function calling

• Supports JSON mode for compatible models

• Supports batching for Anthropic models

Production Usage

• Use exponential backoff for retries

• Monitor usage via Billing and Logs dashboards

• Model availability may vary by provider

• Some models support asynchronous generation workflows

Async Workflows

• POST /v2/generate/video

• POST /v2/generate/audio

• Poll generation status using returned generation IDs

SDKs

• OpenAI SDK

Base URL: https://api.aimlapi.com

Core Endpoints

• POST /v1/chat/completions — Chat completion docs

• POST /v1/images/generations — Image generation docs

• POST /v2/generate/video — Video generation docs

• POST /v1/stt/create — Speech-to-Text API overview

• POST /v1/tts — Text-to-Speech API overview

• POST /v2/generate/audio Music API overview

• POST /v1/embeddings — Embeddings docs

• GET /v1/models — List all available models (see Models List in Key Links)

• GET /v2/billing — [Get user balance info] (https://docs.aimlapi.com/api-references/service-endpoints/account-balance)

Example Request

• View complete code examples in Quickstart

• cURL example: curl -X POST https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_AIMLAPI_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"model":"gpt-4o-mini","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'

• Python SDK examples

Capabilities

chat • image-generation • video-generation • music-generation • speech-to-text • text-to-speech • embeddings • vision • code-generation • reasoning • function-calling • streaming • web-search • batching

• Explore all models

Extended Resources

• Getting Started Guide

• API Reference Index

• MCP Endpoint

• Blog

• Academy