# API Reference


This section provides a quick reference for programmatic APIs: endpoint lists, request parameters, response fields, and the locations of billable usage data.
For examples, key lifecycle management, and console operations, see [Developer](../../developer/index.md) and [Guide · Genesis](../../guides/genesis/index.md).

## Pages in This Section

| Page | Description |
| --- | --- |
| [Model API](model-api.md) | Genesis model inference APIs: authentication, paths, parameters, and responses |
| [Platform Capabilities](platform-api.md) | External integration options including the Operator API, SQL connection strings, REST data sources, and Webhooks |

| Scenario | See |
| --- | --- |
| Conversation, embedding, and multimodal model inference | [Model API](model-api.md) |
| Individual data processing tasks (such as parsing and segmentation) | [Platform Capabilities · Operator API](platform-api.md#operator-api) |
| Query the Catalog through a connection string | [Platform Capabilities · SQL Connection String](platform-api.md#sql-connection-string) |
| External REST integration or result delivery | [Platform Capabilities](platform-api.md), [Data Ingestion](../../guides/ai-studio/data-sources/index.md) |

## Coverage of Other References

| Topic | Page |
| --- | --- |
| HTTP errors, rate limits, and retries | [Error Codes](../general/error-codes.md) |
| Built-in system models | [System Model Library](../general/system-models.md) |
| Connector types and fields | [Connectors](../general/connectors.md) |
| MatrixOne SQL | [SQL Reference](../sql/index.md) |

## Notes

1. This section is a concise summary of the product documentation. The documentation repository does not currently provide a complete, publishable OpenAPI specification that can serve as the sole authoritative specification.
2. Refer to the console's access information and actual API responses for paths, fields, and default values.
3. The Base URL usually already includes the version segment. Do not repeat the version prefix when appending a path. See [Model API · Access Information](model-api.md#access-information).

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