API Compatibility

🔌 API compatibility

/v1/* and /api/v1/* are forwarded directly to LM Studio. Every other Ollama endpoint is translated to its native equivalent.

Endpoint support

Endpoint	Behaviour
GET /	Returns "Ollama is running"
GET /api/tags	Translates to /api/v1/models; includes proxy-managed aliases
GET /api/ps	Translates to /api/v1/models; shows loaded models plus aliases
POST /api/show	Fetches real LM Studio metadata; merges alias info when present
POST /api/chat	Translates to /v1/chat/completions (or native /api/v1/chat with --use-native-chat)
POST /api/generate	Translates to /v1/completions; vision requests use chat endpoint
POST /api/embed	Translates to /v1/embeddings; also handles /api/embeddings
GET /api/version	Returns proxy version in Ollama format
GET /health	Validates LM Studio reachability
POST /api/create	Creates proxy-managed virtual aliases (no custom blobs)
POST /api/pull	Translates to /api/v1/models/download; streams download progress
POST /api/push	Returns 501 (LM Studio has no model registry)
POST /api/web_search	Returns 501 (cloud-only Ollama feature, no LM Studio backend)
POST /api/web_fetch	Returns 501 (cloud-only Ollama feature, no LM Studio backend)
DELETE /api/delete	Removes proxy-managed aliases only
POST /api/copy	Duplicates aliases or references LM Studio models
HEAD/POST /api/blobs/:digest	Stores and validates blobs for alias manifests

Verbatim passthrough

ANY /v1/* and ANY /api/v1/* are forwarded directly to LM Studio without modification. This includes POST /v1/messages (Anthropic-compat) and POST /v1/responses (OpenAI Responses), which LM Studio serves natively. The proxy only remaps the model field from the Ollama-style name to the resolved LM Studio id before forwarding.

Anthropic clients such as Claude Code work against /v1/messages with no extra setup. See the Claude Code section in the README.

Virtual model aliases

• /api/create and /api/copy manage aliases stored under $XDG_CACHE_HOME/ollama-lmstudio-proxy/virtual_models.json (fallback: $HOME/.cache/ollama-lmstudio-proxy/, then system temp). Metadata such as system, template, parameters, license, adapters, and messages is merged into subsequent requests.
• /api/delete removes only proxy-managed aliases. /api/show returns LM Studio metadata plus alias info when present.
• /api/pull streams LM Studio catalog downloads (or blocks when "stream": false); optional quantization and source fields are forwarded.