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Tabby Chat API

OpenAI-compatible chat completions and inline chat / Answer Engine.

Tabby Chat API is one of 6 APIs that Tabby publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

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

This API exposes 2 operations across 2 paths, and defines 3 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.3, at version 0.17.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, http://localhost:8080.

2 operations 2 paths 3 schemas 2 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.0.3
API Version
0.17.0
Base URL
http://localhost:8080
Authentication
HTTP Bearer
Contact
License
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

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

  • bearerAuth — Bearer token authentication. Use the registration token from the Tabby web UI (Information - System - Registration token), passed as Authorization: Bearer YOUR…

Paths & Operations 2

Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 2 operations — 2 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Chat 2

OpenAI-compatible chat completions and inline chat / Answer Engine.

POST
/v1/chat/completions
Chat completion (OpenAI-compatible)
chatCompletions body → 200401501
POST
/v1beta/chat/completions
Chat completion (legacy alias)
chatCompletionsBeta body → 200401501

Schemas 3

The contract defines 3 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are ChatCompletionRequest (4 properties), ChatCompletionResponse (2 properties), ChatMessage (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

ChatMessage
object
2 properties 2 required
ChatCompletionResponse
object
2 properties
ChatCompletionRequest
object
4 properties 1 required

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

tabby-ml-chat-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs Tabby publishes across the network.

Tabby Completions API
Tabby Events API
Tabby Health API
Tabby Ingestion API
Tabby Models API