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Stanford AI API gateway Practical Guide

Hands-on guide to the Stanford AI API Gateway (aiapi-prod.stanford.edu), the University IT service that routes requests to OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, DeepSeek and Llama models through a single OpenAI-compatible API. Covers how to request a key in ServiceNow, Bearer token authentication, listing the models your key can access, and the anatomy of a chat completion request. Includes worked examples for simple chat, streaming, SDK setup, embeddings, image generation, file input, reasoning models, prompt caching with Claude, tool calling, structured output and batch processing, plus rate limits, error handling and where to get support. Intended for developers, researchers and technical staff at Stanford building AI into applications, notebooks or platform workflows.

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