ZotGPT (UC Irvine)
ZotGPT is the University of California, Irvine's institutionally-operated generative AI platform, built and run in-house by the UCI Office of Information Technology AI Team rather than purchased as a vendor seat. Launched to faculty and staff in early 2024 and to students in April 2024, it now spans four end-user products (Chat, ClassChat, Creator, Prompt Library), a training arm (Academy), and two generations of developer API. The platform is deliberately multi-cloud and multi-model: the interactive applications run on UC Irvine's own AWS accounts in us-west-2 behind Shibboleth SSO, the first-generation developer API was fronted by Azure API Management, and models are sourced across OpenAI, Anthropic (via AWS Bedrock), Google, Azure, and open-source options such as Mistral and DeepSeek. The deprecated Azure-managed API at api.zotgpt.uci.edu is being retired in favor of the ZotGPT Gateway, a Portkey-specification unified AI gateway that gives the campus one endpoint, virtual API keys, per-key spend limits, and provider-agnostic model routing. Data is held under UC Irvine's P3 protection standard, retained 12 months, and contractually excluded from vendor model training.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles ZotGPT (UC Irvine) the way a machine reads it — 9 machine-readable artifacts across 2 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — ZotGPT (UC Irvine) scores 48.4/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 30/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
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Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0
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How we profile ZotGPT (UC Irvine)
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for ZotGPT (UC Irvine). For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 2
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
ZotGPT (UC Irvine) Chat API
OpenAI-compatible chat completions.
ZotGPT (UC Irvine) Embeddings API
Vector embeddings across the campus model catalog.
Open Collections 2
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
ZotGPT API (Deprecated)
OPEN COLLECTIONZotGPT Gateway
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Zotgpt Plans Pricing
PLANSRate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Zotgpt Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Zotgpt Finops
FINOPSSecurity Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Resources
Every other property we hold for ZotGPT (UC Irvine) — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 2
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 3
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 3
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 3
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 4
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 6
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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