Provider: Nebius

Call Nebius models through Respan Gateway with unified logs, cost, and latency.
This page is for Respan LLM Gateway users.

Use Respan Gateway to call Nebius AI Studio models (DeepSeek-R1, Llama, Qwen, and other open-source models hosted on Nebius) while keeping unified observability (logs, cost, latency, reliability) in Respan.

Quick setup

1

Get a Respan API key

Sign up and create a key on the API keys page.

Send your first request

Pick the integration that matches your stack. The base URL is https://api.respan.ai/api and the only key needed is your RESPAN_API_KEY.

Nebius is OpenAI-compatible. Point the OpenAI SDK at the Respan gateway and call any Nebius model.

1from openai import OpenAI
2
3client = OpenAI(
4 api_key="YOUR_RESPAN_API_KEY",
5 base_url="https://api.respan.ai/api",
6)
7
8response = client.chat.completions.create(
9 model="nebius/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1",
10 messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello, Nebius!"}],
11)
12print(response.choices[0].message.content)

More integrations

Nebius models work with every Respan gateway integration:

Switch models

Change the model parameter to call any supported model through the same client. Use the nebius/ prefix to disambiguate when routing across providers. Browse the full list on the Models page.

1client.chat.completions.create(model="nebius/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1", messages=messages)
2client.chat.completions.create(model="nebius/meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct", messages=messages)
3client.chat.completions.create(model="nebius/Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B", messages=messages)
4client.chat.completions.create(model="openai/gpt-5.5", messages=messages)
5client.chat.completions.create(model="anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-5", messages=messages)

Use your own Nebius key (BYOK)

Credits are the default path. If you’d rather bill Nebius directly, attach your own provider key.

1

Open Providers

Go to the Providers page.

2

Add Nebius

Select Nebius AI and paste your nebius.api_key.

3

Load balancing (Optional)

Add multiple credential sets and use Load balancing weight to distribute traffic across them.

Override credentials per model (Optional)

Use credential_override when one model on a request should use a different Nebius key than the default.

1{
2 "customer_credentials": {
3 "nebius": { "api_key": "YOUR_NEBIUS_API_KEY" }
4 },
5 "credential_override": {
6 "nebius/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1": { "api_key": "ANOTHER_NEBIUS_API_KEY" }
7 }
8}

Log without proxying (Optional)

Already calling Nebius directly? Send logs to Respan asynchronously to track cost, latency, and performance for those external calls.

1import requests
2
3requests.post(
4 "https://api.respan.ai/api/request-logs/create/",
5 headers={
6 "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_RESPAN_API_KEY",
7 "Content-Type": "application/json",
8 },
9 json={
10 "model": "nebius/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1",
11 "prompt_messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello, how are you?"}],
12 "completion_message": {"role": "assistant", "content": "Hello from Nebius through Respan."},
13 "cost": 0.001,
14 "generation_time": 1.2,
15 "customer_params": {"customer_identifier": "user_123"},
16 },
17)

See the logging guide for the full setup.