Provider native APIs

Provider native APIs give you direct access to provider-specific API surfaces 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 Azure Databricks.

Requirements

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