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Models endpoint

GET /v1/models — the live catalogue and its capability flags.

GET https://chat.eterial.ai/v1/models

Authenticated like any other call. Returns the models you can send to, in the OpenAI list shape with one addition — capabilities:

{
  "object": "list",
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "minimax-m2.7",
      "object": "model",
      "capabilities": ["reasoning", "tools"]
    }
  ]
}

The capabilities

ValueRequired by
toolstools or functions in the request — and any request asking for web search
reasoningreasoning or reasoning_effort
image_inputan image_url content part
pdf_inputa file or input_file content part

A request that needs none of these can go to any model in the list.

A model may also advertise web_search, which means one of its backends can run a search natively. Nothing you send requires it: web search is served by Eterial rather than by the model, so it is tools that a searching request is routed on. See Web search.

Capabilities are per model, not per backend

A model is served by more than one backend, and the list here is everything those backends can do, combined. If two capabilities live on different backends and no single one has both, a request asking for both is rejected with a 400 — even though the model advertised each of them.

When you need two at once, test the combination rather than trusting the listing.

It is safe to cache

The list is deterministic — models sorted by name, capabilities sorted within each — so a client that polls it will not see spurious changes. Tools that cache /v1/models, like Cline and OpenWebUI, work as intended.

The contents do change as models are added and retired. See Models.

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