106Course · Foundation
AI APIs
The commercial and open interfaces.
The commercial and open APIs. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, OpenRouter, and Ollama — treated as one comparative interface with an honest cost, latency, and capability table. The Lab builds a provider-agnostic client benchmarked across three providers.
- 01
Call every major API with confidence.
- 02
Compare providers on cost, latency, and capability.
- 03
Design for provider failure.
- 04
Choose the right model for the job.
Prerequisites
- — How LLMs Work.
Pacing
~4 hours including the Lab.
- IModule
The frontier providers
The commercial APIs.
- IIModule
Aggregators and open models
The rest of the market.
- IIIModule
Working with APIs
The engineering.
A Note from the Faculty
A model is only as useful as the provider you can actually reach.