Inference API

Call your deployed Valkyrie models over an OpenAI- or Anthropic-compatible 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-213), 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

• 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_):

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.