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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.

2 operations 2 paths 2 schemas 2 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.1.0
API Version
2026-05-25
Base URL
https://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1
Authentication
HTTP Bearer
Resource Areas
1

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.

Models 2

Model discovery operations

GET
/v1/models
List Available Models
listModels → 200401
GET
/v1/models/{model_id}
Retrieve A Model
getModel 1 param → 200404

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.

Model
object
6 properties
ModelList
object
2 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

nvidia-nim-models-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs NVIDIA NIM publishes across the network.

NVIDIA NIM Completions API
NVIDIA NIM Embeddings API
NVIDIA NIM Reranking API
NVIDIA NIM Vision Language Models API
NVIDIA NIM Health API
NVIDIA NIM Biology (BioNeMo) API
NVIDIA NIM ASR API
NVIDIA NIM Chat API
NVIDIA NIM Images API
NVIDIA NIM TTS API