Inference API

Valkyrie’s public, client-facing API is the inference API: once you’ve deployed a model, you call it over a standard, OpenAI-compatible (and Anthropic-compatible) endpoint from any client or SDK.

This is the only externally-supported programmatic surface. Operating Valkyrie, creating deployments, launching fine-tuning jobs, managing datasets, is done through the dashboard or the MCP server, not a public REST API. There is no public control-plane API to program against.

Base URL

https://valkyrie-back.azumo.com

Use the API base URL for your environment. If your organization runs a separate environment, substitute its host. API keys are environment-specific.

Endpoints

A ready deployment is addressed by its slug, deployment-{id} (for example deployment-227), or by an alias:

# OpenAI-compatible
POST /{deployment_slug}/v1/chat/completions
POST /{account_slug}/{alias}/v1/chat/completions

# Anthropic-compatible (Messages API)
POST /{deployment_slug}/v1/messages
POST /{deployment_slug}/v1/messages/count_tokens
POST /{account_slug}/{alias}/v1/messages

An alias points at a deployment or an inference pool. A pool alias serves only the OpenAI-compatible routes, plus GET /{account_slug}/{alias}/v1/status and DELETE /{account_slug}/{alias}/v1/session. Its Anthropic-compatible routes return 400. See Point an alias at an inference pool.

OpenAI-compatible follows the Chat Completions contract, see Chat Completions.
Anthropic-compatible follows the Messages contract, so Claude clients work, see Connect Claude Code.

Authentication

Send a deployment API key (vk_dep_). An alias that points at an inference pool needs an account-wide key. Keys scoped to one endpoint get 403 there.

Header	Notes
`X-API-Key: <key>`	Simplest for scripts and cURL
`Authorization: Bearer <key>`	What the OpenAI SDKs send, set the SDK `api_key` to your Valkyrie key
`x-api-key: <key>`	What the Anthropic SDKs send

See Authentication.

Compatibility

Because the inference API is OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible, you can use the official SDKs, LangChain, and most third-party clients by pointing them at your deployment’s base URL. See Connect a model.

​Base URL

​Endpoints

​Authentication

​Compatibility

Base URL

Endpoints

Authentication

Compatibility