---
aid: zotgpt
name: ZotGPT (UC Irvine)
description: >-
  ZotGPT is the University of California, Irvine's institutionally-operated
  generative AI platform, built and run in-house by the UCI Office of
  Information Technology AI Team rather than purchased as a vendor seat.
  Launched to faculty and staff in early 2024 and to students in April 2024,
  it now spans four end-user products (Chat, ClassChat, Creator, Prompt
  Library), a training arm (Academy), and two generations of developer API.
  The platform is deliberately multi-cloud and multi-model: the interactive
  applications run on UC Irvine's own AWS accounts in us-west-2 behind
  Shibboleth SSO, the first-generation developer API was fronted by Azure API
  Management, and models are sourced across OpenAI, Anthropic (via AWS
  Bedrock), Google, Azure, and open-source options such as Mistral and
  DeepSeek. The deprecated Azure-managed API at api.zotgpt.uci.edu is being
  retired in favor of the ZotGPT Gateway, a Portkey-specification unified AI
  gateway that gives the campus one endpoint, virtual API keys, per-key spend
  limits, and provider-agnostic model routing. Data is held under UC Irvine's
  P3 protection standard, retained 12 months, and contractually excluded from
  vendor model training.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: instant
  trial: true
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: high
  source:
    - plans
  generated: '2026-07-28'
  method: searched
position: Provider
access: 1st-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/zotgpt.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zotgpt/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Artificial Intelligence
  - Generative AI
  - LLM
  - AI Gateway
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Education
  - Multi-Cloud
  - Multi-Model
  - Chat Completions
  - Embeddings
  - Model Routing
  - Retrieval Augmented Generation
  - Identity
  - United States
  - California
created: '2026-07-28'
modified: '2026-07-28'
specificationVersion: '0.21'
apis:
- aid: zotgpt:api
  name: ZotGPT API (Deprecated)
  description: >-
    The first-generation ZotGPT developer API, an OpenAI-compatible chat completions endpoint fronted
    by Azure API Management and available to UCI faculty and staff with "$200 in initial API credits to
    get started." Documented as a bearer-token POST to https://api.zotgpt.uci.edu/v1/chat/completions
    serving gpt-4o. Access was requested through a ServiceNow knowledge article and keys were managed
    in the Azure API Management developer portal at portal.azureapi.zotgpt.uci.edu. UCI has published
    a three-phase deprecation: new signups frozen, a three-month self-migration window, and then "all
    remaining Azure API keys disabled." Superseded by the ZotGPT Gateway.
  humanURL: https://zotgpt.uci.edu/services/api/
  baseURL: https://api.zotgpt.uci.edu/v1
  tags:
  - LLM
  - Chat Completions
  - Deprecated
  - Azure API Management
  - OpenAI Compatible
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://zotgpt.uci.edu/services/api/
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://portal.azureapi.zotgpt.uci.edu
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/zotgpt-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Deprecation
    url: https://zotgpt.uci.edu/services/migrate-azure-api/
  - type: SignUp
    url: https://uci.service-now.com/sp?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB0013367
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/zotgpt-authentication.yml
  x-evidence:
    verified: '2026-07-28'
    method: docs-read + dns + host-probe
    docs: >-
      https://zotgpt.uci.edu/services/api/ names the endpoint https://api.zotgpt.uci.edu/v1/chat/completions,
      bearer-token auth, the gpt-4o model, the $200 credit, and the ServiceNow request path. https://zotgpt.uci.edu/services/migrate-azure-api/
      quotes the old base URL https://api.azureapi.zotgpt.uci.edu/v1 alongside Python client code.
    endpoint_check: >-
      api.zotgpt.uci.edu and api.azureapi.zotgpt.uci.edu do NOT resolve in public DNS (NXDOMAIN, curl
      exit 6) — the data plane is reachable only from inside the campus network or is already withdrawn
      as part of the deprecation. The control plane IS public: the Azure API Management developer portal
      at https://portal.azureapi.zotgpt.uci.edu returns HTTP 200 titled "UC Irvine API Management" with
      /apis and /products routes, and resolves through oit-apim-usw2.azure-api.net. The underlying APIM
      gateway oit-apim-usw2.azure-api.net answers with an APIM JSON envelope ({"statusCode":404,"message":"Resource
      not found"}), confirming a live Azure API Management instance. No OpenAPI was retrievable anonymously
      — the portal gates specs behind sign-in.
- aid: zotgpt:zotgpt-gateway-openapi
  name: ZotGPT (UC Irvine) ZotGPT Gateway
  description: >-
    ZotGPT (UC Irvine) ZotGPT Gateway from ZotGPT (UC Irvine) — 2 path(s) described in OpenAPI.
  humanURL: https://zotgpt.uci.edu/services/api/
  baseURL: https://api.zotgpt.uci.edu/v1
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/zotgpt-gateway-openapi.yml
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://zotgpt.uci.edu/
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://portal.azureapi.zotgpt.uci.edu
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://zotgpt.uci.edu/services/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://zotgpt.uci.edu/services/gateway/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://zotgpt.uci.edu/services/gateway/clients/
  - type: Support
    url: https://zotgpt.uci.edu/help/
  - type: PrivacyPolicy
    url: https://zotgpt.uci.edu/privacy/
  - type: Organization
    url: https://oit.uci.edu
  - type: Team
    url: https://zotgpt.uci.edu/team/
  - type: Partners
    url: https://zotgpt.uci.edu/partners/
  - type: Sustainability
    url: https://zotgpt.uci.edu/sustainability/
  - type: Training
    url: https://zotgpt.uci.edu/services/academy/
  - type: Prompts
    url: https://zotgpt.uci.edu/prompts/
  - type: Marketplace
    url: https://zotgpt.uci.edu/services/marketplace/
  - type: Blog
    url: https://www.oit.uci.edu/services/ai/
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/zotgpt-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/zotgpt-conventions.yml
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/zotgpt-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://zotgpt.uci.edu/services/gateway/
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/zotgpt-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/zotgpt-finops.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/zotgpt-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Deprecation
    url: lifecycle/zotgpt-lifecycle.yml
  - type: ChangeLog
    url: changelog/zotgpt-changelog.yml
  - type: Packages
    url: packages/zotgpt-packages.yml
  - type: SDKs
    url: packages/zotgpt-packages.yml
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/zotgpt-gateway-examples.yml
  - type: AgentSkill
    url: skills/_index.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/zotgpt-conformance.yml
  - type: Compliance
    url: conformance/zotgpt-conformance.yml
  - type: DomainSecurity
    url: security/zotgpt-domain-security.yml
  - type: WellKnown
    url: well-known/zotgpt-well-known.yml
  - type: LLMsTxt
    url: llms/zotgpt-llms.txt
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com