NVIDIA NIM Models API
OpenAI-compatible model catalog endpoint (/v1/models) returning the list of models served by the NIM endpoint or container. Each entry includes id, owned_by, and created timestamp. Used by clients to discover the model name strings to pass to chat-completions / completions / embeddings.
NVIDIA NIM Models API is one of 11 APIs that NVIDIA NIM publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include AI, Artificial Intelligence, Models, Catalog, and OpenAI Compatible. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and an OpenAPI specification.
This API exposes 2 operations across 2 paths, and defines 2 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 2026-05-25.
Requests are made against 2 base URLs: https://integrate.api.nvidia.com, http://localhost:8000.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
NVIDIA NIM Models API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (nvapi-...) (BearerAuth).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
Paths & Operations 2
Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 2 operations — 2 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Model discovery operations
Schemas 2
The contract defines 2 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Model (6 properties), ModelList (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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