BharatRouter documentation

BharatRouter is India's AI gateway: Krutrim, Sarvam, and the world's best open and frontier models behind one API, with INR pricing, enforceable India data-residency, and price/latency/uptime routing with automatic failover. The API speaks the OpenAI wire format, so any standard SDK works — swap the base URL and key, change nothing else.

Quickstart

Three steps: sign in, create a key on the dashboard, make a request.

curl

curl https://api.bharatrouter.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer br-..." \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "qwen2.5-7b-instruct",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "namaste"}],
    "stream": true,
    "data_policy": "india_only",
    "optimize": "latency"
  }'

Python (OpenAI SDK)

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(base_url="https://api.bharatrouter.com/v1", api_key="br-...")

r = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="qwen2.5-7b-instruct",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "namaste"}],
    extra_body={"data_policy": "india_only", "optimize": "price"},
)
print(r.choices[0].message.content)

Node (OpenAI SDK)

import OpenAI from "openai";

const client = new OpenAI({ baseURL: "https://api.bharatrouter.com/v1", apiKey: "br-..." });

const r = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "qwen2.5-7b-instruct",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "namaste" }],
  data_policy: "india_only",   // BharatRouter extensions pass straight through the SDK
});
console.log(r.choices[0].message.content);

Streaming

Set "stream": true and read server-sent events, exactly as with any OpenAI-compatible API. BharatRouter includes a final usage chunk in every stream so you always see what the request cost.

stream = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="qwen2.5-7b-instruct",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain UPI in two lines"}],
    stream=True,
)
for chunk in stream:
    if chunk.choices and chunk.choices[0].delta.content:
        print(chunk.choices[0].delta.content, end="")

Embeddings

curl https://api.bharatrouter.com/v1/embeddings \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer br-..." \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "model": "bge-m3", "input": "namaste duniya" }'

India-resident embedding models served on the platform key: bge-m3 (1024-dim, multilingual) — or bring your own via BYOK.

Where to go next

Tooling & machine-readable surfaces

⬇ Postman collection Import, set the apiKey variable, test every endpoint.