AI API

One API. Every model. Zero lock‑in.

A production‑grade AI API with unified auth, streaming, retries, caching, and observability. Swap models without changing a line of application code.

Overview

Built for teams shipping AI in production.

AI API abstracts model providers behind a single, stable interface — with the reliability primitives you’d otherwise build yourself over six months.

  • Chat, embeddings, tools, structured output, and vision in one SDK
  • Automatic failover across providers when a model degrades
  • Prompt caching and semantic cache built in
  • OpenTelemetry traces exported to your observability stack
Key capabilities

Everything you need to run AI API in production.

Model router

Fallbacks, load balancing, and per‑request model choice.

Rate limits

Per‑key, per‑team, and per‑endpoint — visible in real time.

Enterprise auth

SSO, SCIM, and IP allow‑listing on every account.

Full observability

Every prompt, response, and token accounted for.

Feature grid

Thoughtful features, not feature bloat.

SDKs everywhere

TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby — with typed model IDs.

Streaming

SSE and WebSocket streaming with backpressure handled.

Scoped keys

Create keys with per‑endpoint, per‑model, per‑budget scopes.

Structured output

Zod / JSON‑Schema in, typed output out — reliably.

Prompt cache

Deterministic and semantic caching cuts spend up to 60%.

PII redaction

Optional pre‑send scrubber for sensitive fields.

See it in action

AI API, at a glance.

A live‑looking preview of what your team gets on day one.

Terminal · curl
$ curl https://api.carto-catral.dev/v1/chat \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $NW_KEY" \
    -d '{
      "model": "auto",
      "messages": [{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}],
      "stream": true
    }'

data: {"delta":{"content":"Hi"}}
data: {"delta":{"content":" there!"}}
data: {"done":true,"usage":{"credits":2}}
Benefits

Results your CFO will love.

99.99%
Uptime

Multi‑provider routing survives single‑vendor outages.

‑60%
Model spend

Caching + routing typical for chat workloads.

< 5 min
To first call

From signup to a streaming completion in your terminal.

Use cases

Where teams put AI API to work.

SaaS features

Ship copilots and drafting features without owning infra.

Agents

Power autonomous agents with reliable tool use.

Search & RAG

Embeddings, reranking, and generation — same key.

Integrations

Plays well with your stack.

Connects to the tools your team already uses.

OpenAIAnthropicGoogleMistralCohereAWS BedrockAzure OpenAIOllama
FAQ

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