No particular order

Thanks to JetBrains for providing free open-source development license for this project

# Clone the project
git clone https://github.com/QuantumNous/new-api.git
cd new-api

# Edit docker-compose.yml configuration
nano docker-compose.yml

# Start the service
docker-compose up -d

# Pull the latest image
docker pull calciumion/new-api:latest

# Using SQLite (default)
docker run --name new-api -d --restart always \
  -p 3000:3000 \
  -e TZ=Asia/Shanghai \
  -v ./data:/data \
  calciumion/new-api:latest

# Using MySQL
docker run --name new-api -d --restart always \
  -p 3000:3000 \
  -e SQL_DSN="root:123456@tcp(localhost:3306)/oneapi" \
  -e TZ=Asia/Shanghai \
  -v ./data:/data \
  calciumion/new-api:latest

💡 Tip: -v ./data:/data will save data in the data folder of the current directory, you can also change it to an absolute path like -v /your/custom/path:/data

🎉 After deployment is complete, visit http://localhost:3000 to start using!

📖 For more deployment methods, please refer to Deployment Guide

Quick Navigation:

For detailed features, please refer to Features Introduction

• ✅ Internal top-up and quota allocation for lawful authorized scenarios (EPay, Stripe)
• ✅ Organization-level per-request, usage-based, and cache-hit cost accounting
• ✅ Cache billing statistics for OpenAI, Azure, DeepSeek, Claude, Qwen, and supported models
• ✅ Flexible billing policies for internal management or authorized enterprise customers

• 😈 Discord authorization login
• 🤖 LinuxDO authorization login
• 📱 Telegram authorization login
• 🔑 OIDC unified authentication
• 🔍 Key quota query usage (with new-api-key-tool)

API Format Support:

• ⚡ OpenAI Responses
• ⚡ OpenAI Realtime API (including Azure)
• ⚡ Claude Messages
• ⚡ Google Gemini
• 🔄 Rerank Models (Cohere, Jina)

Intelligent Routing:

• ⚖️ Channel weighted random
• 🔄 Automatic retry on failure
• 🚦 User-level model rate limiting

Format Conversion:

• 🔄 OpenAI Compatible ⇄ Claude Messages
• 🔄 OpenAI Compatible → Google Gemini
• 🔄 Google Gemini → OpenAI Compatible - Text only, function calling not supported yet
• 🚧 OpenAI Compatible ⇄ OpenAI Responses - In development
• 🔄 Thinking-to-content functionality

Reasoning Effort Support:

OpenAI series models:

• o3-mini-high - High reasoning effort
• o3-mini-medium - Medium reasoning effort
• o3-mini-low - Low reasoning effort
• gpt-5-high - High reasoning effort
• gpt-5-medium - Medium reasoning effort
• gpt-5-low - Low reasoning effort

Claude thinking models:

• claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219-thinking - Enable thinking mode

Google Gemini series models:

• gemini-2.5-flash-thinking - Enable thinking mode
• gemini-2.5-flash-nothinking - Disable thinking mode
• gemini-2.5-pro-thinking - Enable thinking mode
• gemini-2.5-pro-thinking-128 - Enable thinking mode with thinking budget of 128 tokens
• You can also append -low, -medium, or -high to any Gemini model name to request the corresponding reasoning effort (no extra thinking-budget suffix needed).

For details, please refer to API Documentation - Gateway Interface

• Chat Interface (Chat Completions)
• Response Interface (Responses)
• Image Interface (Image)
• Audio Interface (Audio)
• Video Interface (Video)
• Embedding Interface (Embeddings)
• Rerank Interface (Rerank)
• Realtime Conversation (Realtime)
• Claude Chat
• Google Gemini Chat

📖 Complete configuration: Environment Variables Documentation

# Clone the project
git clone https://github.com/QuantumNous/new-api.git
cd new-api

# Edit configuration
nano docker-compose.yml

# Start service
docker-compose up -d

Using SQLite:

docker run --name new-api -d --restart always \
  -p 3000:3000 \
  -e TZ=Asia/Shanghai \
  -v ./data:/data \
  calciumion/new-api:latest

Using MySQL:

docker run --name new-api -d --restart always \
  -p 3000:3000 \
  -e SQL_DSN="root:123456@tcp(localhost:3306)/oneapi" \
  -e TZ=Asia/Shanghai \
  -v ./data:/data \
  calciumion/new-api:latest

💡 Path explanation:

• ./data:/data - Relative path, data saved in the data folder of the current directory
• You can also use absolute path, e.g.: /your/custom/path:/data

1. Install BaoTa Panel (≥ 9.2.0 version)
2. Search for New-API in the application store
3. One-click installation

📖 Tutorial with images

The database is authoritative for login Sessions and for the per-user active/issuance limits. Redis Session entries are short-lived caches whose TTL follows SYNC_FREQUENCY (60 seconds by default) and never exceeds the Session's remaining lifetime.

A shorter SYNC_FREQUENCY reduces the independent-Redis staleness window but causes one additional primary-key Session lookup per active SID, per node, per TTL. These guarantees make Session authentication bounded-stale across the supported topologies; rate limits and other Redis-backed control-plane caches remain topology-dependent.

See User authentication and login sessions for the token, Origin-check and PAT contracts.

Retry configuration: Settings → Operation Settings → General Settings → Failure Retry Count

Cache configuration:

• REDIS_CONN_STRING: Redis cache (recommended)
• MEMORY_CACHE_ENABLED: Memory cache

Welcome all forms of contribution!

• 🐛 Report Bugs
• 💡 Propose New Features
• 📝 Improve Documentation
• 🔧 Submit Code

This project is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (AGPLv3).

Additional terms under AGPLv3 Section 7 apply. Modified versions must preserve the author attribution notice Frontend design and development by New API contributors. in the appropriate legal notices and in any prominent about, legal, footer, or attribution location presented by the user interface.

Modified versions that present a user interface must also preserve a visible link to the original project: https://github.com/QuantumNous/new-api.

This is an open-source project developed based on One API (MIT License).

If your organization's policies do not permit the use of AGPLv3-licensed software, or if you wish to avoid the open-source obligations of AGPLv3, please contact us at: support@quantumnous.com