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OpenAI-compatible API hosted in Canada

Augure is an OpenAI-compatible chat completions API with data stored in Canada and inference on Canadian infrastructure and vetted EU partners, never US providers. Change the base URL and the model id; keep your SDK.

Updated Tue Oct 27 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) · Markdown version

Augure's developer API accepts the OpenAI chat completions request format at https://api.augureai.ca/v1. The OpenAI SDKs, and every tool built on them, work against it after two changes: the base URL and the model id. Customer data is stored in Canada. Inference runs on Canadian infrastructure and with vetted EU partners under zero-data-retention agreements, and is never routed to providers in the United States. Augure is a Canadian company with no US corporate parent and no US investors. Prices are in Canadian dollars.

This page answers the question developers ask first: "Is there an OpenAI-compatible API hosted in Canada, and what changes when I point my code at it?"

The two-line switch

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.augureai.ca/v1",   # was https://api.openai.com/v1
    api_key=os.environ["AUGURE_API_KEY"],    # aug_sk_live_...
)
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="ossington-5",                     # was gpt-4o, gpt-5, ...
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Summarise this clause in one sentence."}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)
print(resp.model_extra["_augure"]["inference_region"])   # e.g. ca-on-toronto

import OpenAI from "openai";

const client = new OpenAI({
  baseURL: "https://api.augureai.ca/v1",
  apiKey: process.env.AUGURE_API_KEY,
});
const resp = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "tofino-3",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
});
console.log(resp.choices[0].message.content);

Keys are self-serve from the developer dashboard (add a payment method, generate a key, set a monthly spend limit). Usage is metered and billed monthly in CAD.

What is compatible

OpenAI feature On Augure
POST /v1/chat/completions Same request and response shape, plus an _augure block with gateway_region, inference_region and request_id.
GET /v1/models Lists the Augure model ids.
Authorization: Bearer <key> Same header.
Streaming (stream: true, SSE, stream_options.include_usage) Supported. Errors mid-stream arrive as an error event followed by data: [DONE].
Tools / function calling Supported.
response_format (json_object, json_schema) Supported. On reasoning models it is enforced by a prompt-level directive: validate the result and retry once on failure. Not combined with tools on those models.
Images (image_url parts) Supported on every model; with model: "auto" the image is read by Augure's vision engine in Calgary.
PDFs (file parts, base64) Supported: the text layer is extracted on the gateway, scanned pages are OCR'd.
reasoning_effort Supported on the reasoning tiers. "none" turns thinking off on ossington-5, ossington-4-1 and ossington-4 (10 to 50 times faster on short mechanical tasks).
max_tokens Global cap 32,768 (16,384 on tofino-3). Omit it on reasoning models.
Model aliases gpt-4 and gpt-4o are served by ossington-4; gpt-4o-mini and gpt-3.5-turbo by tofino-3. An alias is a compatibility surface, not a promise of a particular backing model.
Web search Not a built-in chat tool. A standalone POST /v1/search (Augure's self-hosted search, en or fr) returns results you pass into your next message.
Link reading A URL in the latest user message is fetched server-side and its text handed to the model; pages read are listed in _augure.fetched_urls.
Memories GET/POST/PATCH/DELETE /v1/memories, the same per-user memory store the Augure apps use (needs a key tied to a user account).
Embeddings, audio, image generation, assistants, batch endpoints Not documented on the chat completions surface. See the API reference for the current endpoint list.

Which model to send

Model id Context Max output CAD per 1M in / out Use it for
ossington-5 256K 32,768 $1.50 / $3.00 Default. Reasoning, code, structured output. Cached input $0.60.
rosedale-1 up to 1M 32,768 $2.50 / $6.00 Whole-document analysis, agent loops, Canadian inference.
tofino-3 256K 16,384 $0.60 / $2.00 Fast everyday tasks, extraction, translation. Thinking always off. Never leaves Canada.
ossington-4-1 256K 32,768 $2.50 / $6.00 Existing integrations; strong bilingual EN/FR work on Canadian infrastructure.
open-glm-5-3, open-qwen-3.8-flash-next 256K 49,152, 32,768 $3.00 / $7.00, $2.00 / $4.00 Augure Open (preview): open-weight models, messages reach the model unchanged, text only, Canada only.
auto per model served Let the gateway choose per request; required for the vision engine on images.

Full table, retirement policy and aliases: Models.

Where a request runs

  • The gateway is in Beauharnois, Quebec. Every response names the region that served it in _augure.inference_region.
  • rosedale-1, ossington-4-1, tofino-3 and the Augure Open models run on Canadian infrastructure. Some tiers and failover during outages or peak demand are served by vetted EU partners under zero data retention; a response served that way says so in _augure.fallback. Nothing is routed to providers in the United States.
  • Organisations that need every request to stay in Canada can have their account set Canada-only: requests then stay in Canada or fail with 503 residency_unavailable, never served elsewhere. Email enterprise@augureai.ca.
  • Prompts are never logged by Augure and never used for model training. Limited US processing exists for payment card networks and email delivery only; the privacy policy documents every cross-border flow.

Tools that already work

Working configurations, each with a snippet that runs in CI against the live API:

Moving from another provider

Migration guides with model mappings and before/after code: Azure OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock, Vertex AI, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Mistral, Cohere, OVHcloud, Ollama. Index: augureai.ca/compare.

Verify it from a shell

curl https://api.augureai.ca/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AUGURE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"tofino-3","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Reply with the single word: ok"}],"max_tokens":8}'

The response ends with an _augure object whose inference_region starts with ca-.

See also: API reference · Developer program and pricing · Changelog · Markdown version of this page: https://augureai.ca/docs/openai-compatible.md