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LocalAI Backends API

The backends API from LocalAI — 11 operation(s) for backends.

LocalAI Backends API is one of 26 APIs that LocalAI publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification and an AsyncAPI event-driven specification.

Tagged areas include Backend. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, an API reference, authentication docs, and an AsyncAPI specification.

This API exposes 11 operations across 11 paths, and defines 11 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 2.0.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, /.

11 operations 11 paths 11 schemas 7 GET4 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
2.0.0
Base URL
http://{localai-host}:8080
Authentication
API Key
Contact
License
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

LocalAI Backends API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. An API key is passed in the header as Authorization (BearerAuth).

Paths & Operations 11

Across 11 paths, the API surfaces 11 operations — 7 GET, 4 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

backends 11
GET
/backends
List all Backends
→ 200
POST
/backends/apply
Install backends to LocalAI.
body → 200
GET
/backends/available
List all available Backends
→ 200
POST
/backends/delete/{name}
delete backends from LocalAI.
1 param → 200
GET
/backends/galleries
List all Galleries
→ 200
GET
/backends/jobs
Returns all the jobs status progress
→ 200
GET
/backends/jobs/{uuid}
Returns the job status
→ 200
GET
/backends/known
List all known Backends (importer registry + curated pref-only + installed-on-disk)
→ 200
POST
/backends/upgrade/{name}
Upgrade a backend
1 param → 200
GET
/backends/upgrades
Get available backend upgrades
→ 200
POST
/backends/upgrades/check
Force backend upgrade check
→ 200

Schemas 11

The contract defines 11 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are gallery.GalleryBackend (18 properties), galleryop.OpStatus (14 properties), galleryop.NodeProgress (9 properties), gallery.UpgradeInfo (6 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

galleryop.OpStatus
object
14 properties
gallery.NodeDriftInfo
object
4 properties
schema.KnownBackend
object
5 properties
config.GalleryVerification
object
5 properties
gallery.UpgradeInfo
object
6 properties
localai.GalleryBackend
object
2 properties
schema.BackendResponse
object
2 properties
gallery.File
object
3 properties
config.Gallery
object
4 properties
galleryop.NodeProgress
object
9 properties
gallery.GalleryBackend
object
18 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

localai-backends-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs LocalAI publishes across the network.

LocalAI 3d API
LocalAI Agent Jobs API
LocalAI Audio API
LocalAI Branding API
LocalAI Config API
LocalAI Depth API
LocalAI Detection API
LocalAI Embeddings API
LocalAI Face Recognition API
LocalAI Images API
LocalAI Inference API
LocalAI Instructions API
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