Use provider native APIs

Beta

This feature is in Beta. Account admins can control access to this feature from the account console Previews page. See Manage Databricks previews.

Provider native APIs give you direct access to the provider-specific API surfaces of model services in Unity AI Gateway, when you need features beyond the unified OpenAI-compatible APIs. Use native APIs to access the latest provider-specific features or to migrate existing provider SDK code to Databricks.

Requirements

• See Requirements.
• Install the appropriate package to your cluster based on the provider you choose.

Available native APIs

Provider	API	Compatible models	Supported input types
OpenAI	OpenAI Responses API	GPT-5 series, GPT-4o	text, image
Anthropic	Anthropic Messages API	Claude models	text, image
Google	Google Gemini API	Gemini models	text, image, video, audio

For per-model input types, see Databricks-hosted foundation models available in Foundation Model APIs.

Additional resources

• Query foundation models by type.
• Use model services.
• Databricks-hosted foundation models available in Foundation Model APIs.