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Nscale Chat API

OpenAI-compatible chat completions.

Nscale Chat API is one of 5 APIs that Nscale publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification and an AsyncAPI event-driven specification.

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

This API exposes 1 operation across 1 path, and defines 5 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.1, at version 1.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://inference.api.nscale.com/v1.

1 operations 1 paths 5 schemas 1 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.0.1
API Version
1.0
Base URL
https://inference.api.nscale.com/v1
Authentication
HTTP Bearer
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Nscale Chat API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (bearerAuth). By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • bearerAuth — Nscale API key issued from the console, sent as Authorization: Bearer $NSCALEAPIKEY.

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 1

OpenAI-compatible chat completions.

POST
/chat/completions
Create a chat completion
createChatCompletion body → 200401429

Schemas 5

The contract defines 5 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are ChatCompletionRequest (11 properties), ChatCompletionResponse (6 properties), ChatMessage (3 properties), Usage (3 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

ChatCompletionRequest
object
11 properties 2 required
Usage
object
3 properties
Error
object
1 property
ChatMessage
object
3 properties 2 required
ChatCompletionResponse
object
6 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

nscale-chat-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs Nscale publishes across the network.

Nscale Completions API
Nscale Embeddings API
Nscale Images API
Nscale Models API