# AIMLAPI — Unified AI/ML API
> One API to access 500+ AI models for chat, image, video, audio, code, embeddings and vision. Single integration for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, ByteDance, Kling AI, Alibaba Cloud and more.

## Authentication
- API Key via Authorization header: `Authorization: Bearer YOUR_AIMLAPI_KEY`
- [Manage API keys in dashboard](https://aimlapi.com/app/keys)

## Key Links
- [Documentation](https://docs.aimlapi.com)
- [Playground](https://aimlapi.com/app)
- [Models List](https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/models)
- [OpenAPI Spec](https://api.aimlapi.com/docs-public-yaml)
- [Pricing](https://aimlapi.com/ai-ml-api-pricing)

Base URL: https://api.aimlapi.com

## Core Endpoints
- `POST /v1/chat/completions` — [Chat completion docs](https://docs.aimlapi.com/api-references/text-models-llm)
- `POST /v1/images/generations` — [Image generation docs](https://docs.aimlapi.com/api-references/image-models)
- `POST /v2/generate/video` — [Video generation docs](https://docs.aimlapi.com/api-references/video-models)
- `POST /v1/stt/create` — [Speech-to-Text API overview](https://docs.aimlapi.com/api-references/speech-models/speech-to-text)
- `POST /v1/tts` — [Text-to-Speech API overview](https://docs.aimlapi.com/api-references/speech-models/text-to-speech)
- `POST /v2/generate/audio` [Music API overview](https://docs.aimlapi.com/api-references/music-models)
- `POST /v1/embeddings` — [Embeddings docs](https://docs.aimlapi.com/api-references/embeddings)
- `GET /v1/models` — List all available models (see Models List in Key Links)
- `GET /v2/billing` — [Get user balance info] (https://docs.aimlapi.com/api-references/service-endpoints/account-balance)

## Example Request
- [View complete code examples in Quickstart](https://docs.aimlapi.com/quickstart)
- cURL example: `curl -X POST https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_AIMLAPI_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"model":"gpt-4o-mini","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'`
- [Python SDK examples](https://docs.aimlapi.com/sdks/python)

## Capabilities
chat • image-generation • video-generation • music-generation • speech-to-text • text-to-speech • embeddings • vision • code-generation • reasoning • function-calling • streaming • web-search • batching
- [Explore all models](https://aimlapi.com/models)

## Extended Resources
- [Getting Started Guide](https://docs.aimlapi.com/introduction)
- [API Reference Index](https://docs.aimlapi.com/#browse-models)
- [MCP Endpoint](https://docs.aimlapi.com/~gitbook/mcp)
- [Blog](https://aimlapi.com/blog)
- [Academy](https://aimlapi.com/academy)