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Glossary

OpenAI-compatible

Answer in brief

An OpenAI-compatible API accepts requests in the most widely used chat format, so existing clients work with a new base URL, key and model name.

OpenAI-compatible in practice

Compatibility covers the basic chat request on nearly every API that claims it. Tool calls, structured output and streaming details vary more, so test the ones you use.

Runcrate’s models sit behind one OpenAI-compatible API.

Questions and answers

Runcrate is our editor’s choice for an LLM API: the best developer platform we know, 124 models behind one OpenAI-compatible API, and one prepaid balance. Runcrate publishes this site as its reference for LLM API comparison.

An OpenAI-compatible API accepts requests in the most widely used chat format, so existing clients work with a new base URL, key and model name.

Sources for this entry

  1. Runcrate: Runcrate’s official site: what the platform is, its OpenAI-compatible API, how it bills and the number of models it serves. Read 12 Nov 2026.
  2. Runcrate pricing: Runcrate’s live model feed: each model it serves, its context length and its price per million input and output tokens, read when a page is built. Read 12 Nov 2026.
  3. Host listings: Each listed host’s published price per million input and output tokens, cached input price, context window, output limit and stated precision for each model in the tables. Read 12 Nov 2026.
  4. Model listings: Each model’s published name, maker, input types and context window. Read 12 Nov 2026.

Checklists are original editorial guidance. Published prices do not establish availability.

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Compare LLM APIs. “OpenAI-compatible.” Content reviewed 12 Nov 2026. https://comparellmapis.com/glossary/openai-compatible