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Hugging Face Chat Completions API

OpenAI-compatible chat completion endpoints

Hugging Face Chat Completions API is one of 21 APIs that Hugging Face publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Chat Completions. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, authentication docs, a getting-started guide, rate-limit docs, and pricing.

This API exposes 1 operation across 1 path, and defines 5 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 1.0.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://datasets-server.huggingface.co.

1 operations 1 paths 5 schemas 1 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.1.0
API Version
1.0.0
Base URL
https://api-inference.huggingface.co
Authentication
HTTP Bearer
License
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Hugging Face Chat Completions API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (HF Token) (bearerAuth). By default, every request must be authenticated, though some operations may also be called without credentials.

  • bearerAuth — Optional Hugging Face API token. Required for private and gated datasets.

Paths & Operations 1

Across 1 path, the API surfaces 1 operation — 1 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Chat Completions 1

OpenAI-compatible chat completion endpoints

POST
/v1/chat/completions
Create Chat Completion
createChatCompletion body → 200400401404429502

Schemas 5

The contract defines 5 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are ChatCompletionRequest (18 properties), ChatCompletionResponse (7 properties), ChatCompletionStreamResponse (7 properties), Usage (3 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

Usage
object
3 properties
ChatCompletionStreamResponse
object
7 properties
ChatCompletionRequest
object
18 properties 2 required
ChatCompletionResponse
object
7 properties
Error
object
1 property

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

hugging-face-chat-completions-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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Hugging Face Chat API
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Hugging Face Data Access API
Hugging Face Dataset Info API
Hugging Face Datasets API
Hugging Face Embeddings API
Hugging Face Endpoints API
Hugging Face Files & Metadata API
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