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AI Gateway

The secure, unified API layer for your AI requests across models, providers, and runtime policies.

The AI Gateway is Cencori's runtime control point. Your application sends AI traffic to Cencori once, and Cencori handles provider routing, security enforcement, observability, and cost tracking.

Available Endpoints

EndpointDescriptionProviders
/api/ai/chatChat completionsOpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, Mistral, DeepSeek, Meta
/api/ai/embeddingsVector embeddingsOpenAI, Google, Cohere
/api/ai/images/generateImage generationOpenAI, Google
/api/ai/audio/transcriptionsSpeech-to-textOpenAI
/api/ai/audio/speechText-to-speechOpenAI
/api/ai/moderationContent moderationOpenAI
https://api.cencori.com/v1/chat/completionsOpenAI-compatible chat endpointOpenAI-compatible clients

Use https://api.cencori.com/v1 as the base URL for OpenAI-compatible SDKs. Most SDKs append /chat/completions automatically.

SDK Usage

import { Cencori } from 'cencori';
 
const cencori = new Cencori({
  apiKey: process.env.CENCORI_API_KEY,
});
 
const response = await cencori.ai.chat({
  model: 'gpt-4o',
  messages: [
    { role: 'system', content: 'You are a helpful assistant.' },
    { role: 'user', content: 'Hello!' },
  ],
  temperature: 0.7,
  maxTokens: 1000,
});
 
console.log(response.content);
console.log(response.usage); // { promptTokens, completionTokens, totalTokens }

Streaming

const stream = cencori.ai.chatStream({
  model: 'claude-opus-4',
  messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'Tell me a story' }],
});
 
for await (const chunk of stream) {
  process.stdout.write(chunk.delta);
}

Tool Calling

const response = await cencori.ai.chat({
  model: 'gpt-4o',
  messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'What is the weather in Tokyo?' }],
  tools: [
    {
      type: 'function',
      function: {
        name: 'get_weather',
        description: 'Get weather for a location',
        parameters: {
          type: 'object',
          properties: { location: { type: 'string' } },
          required: ['location'],
        },
      },
    },
  ],
});
 
console.log(response.toolCalls);

Direct API Usage

Native Cencori Endpoint

curl -X POST https://cencori.com/api/ai/chat \
  -H "CENCORI_API_KEY: csk_..." \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "gpt-4o",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
    "stream": false
  }'

OpenAI-Compatible Endpoint

curl -X POST https://api.cencori.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer csk_..." \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "gpt-4o",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

Authentication

Every request requires a project API key:

  • Preferred for /api/ai/*: CENCORI_API_KEY: csk_...
  • Preferred for https://api.cencori.com/v1/*: Authorization: Bearer csk_...

Create and manage project keys in the dashboard. If authentication succeeds but routing fails with a provider configuration error, add provider access in Project > Providers or choose a model from an enabled provider.