Use provider native APIs

Important

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

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