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Router is Brightnode’s hosted inference entrypoint. It gives you a single OpenAI-compatible API for the models Brightnode exposes through the shared catalog, so you can swap models without changing SDKs or reworking your application.
Use https://api.brightnode.cloud/v1 as the base URL for Router requests.

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Quickstart

Before you send traffic, create an API key with the Inference scope.

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List available models

curl https://api.brightnode.cloud/v1/models \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BRIGHTNODE_API_KEY"

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Send a chat completion

curl https://api.brightnode.cloud/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BRIGHTNODE_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
    "model": "meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct",
    "messages": [
      { "role": "user", "content": "Give me three ideas for a launch email." }
    ],
    "max_tokens": 256
  }'

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Generate embeddings

curl https://api.brightnode.cloud/v1/embeddings \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BRIGHTNODE_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
    "model": "Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-8B",
    "input": "Brightnode hosted inference"
  }'

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Use Router with OpenAI SDKs

Router is designed to be drop-in compatible with OpenAI SDKs when you set the base URL to https://api.brightnode.cloud/v1. 
from openai import OpenAI
import os

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.brightnode.cloud/v1",
    api_key=os.environ["BRIGHTNODE_API_KEY"],
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello from Brightnode"}],
    max_tokens=128,
)

print(response.choices[0].message.content)

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Request behavior

Router supports the standard hosted inference paths:
  • GET /v1/models to list available models.
  • GET /v1/models/{model_id} to inspect a single model.
  • POST /v1/chat/completions for chat-style generation.
  • POST /v1/completions for legacy text completion clients.
  • POST /v1/embeddings for embedding workloads.
If a requested model is still waking up, Router may respond with 503 and a Retry-After header. In that case, retry after the suggested delay.

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When to use Router

Use Router when you want:
  • One endpoint across multiple hosted models.
  • Standard OpenAI SDK compatibility.
  • Centralized API key management.
  • Inference analytics in the Brightnode console.
If you need deployment-level control instead of the shared hosted endpoint, see Beams.