Update Hosted API

Beta
Update a hosted API (merge-patch). Switching to `public` is refused while a `run` or `store_write` route exists: an anonymous caller must not start runs that spend the workspace's budget or write to a store, and it is refused outright where the workspace's policy does not allow internet-facing APIs (403 `hosted_api_public_refused`). Switching to a mode that names no caller (`consumer_key`, `public`) is refused while a route binds `{{user.*}}`: only `user_token`, `workspace` and `owner` supply a person. Switching to `public` is also refused while a `tool` route exists (a vendor call spends the workspace's vendor budget) and while `mcp_enabled` is on, and switching the MCP face on is refused on a `public` API (400 `validation_failed` naming `mcp_enabled`). Dark launch: requires the `hosted_apis_access` entitlement (402 `hosted_apis_not_in_plan` otherwise).

Authentication

AuthorizationBearer

Enter your API key with the Bearer prefix, e.g. ‘Bearer sk_…’.

Path parameters

api_idstringRequired

Hosted API id (prefixed external id, api_...).

Headers

Speechify-VersionstringOptional

Request

This endpoint expects an object.
namestringOptional
descriptionstringOptional<=1000 characters

What the API is for; also the instructions an MCP client hands its model when mcp_enabled is on.

auth_modeenumOptional
cors_originslist of stringsOptional
enabledbooleanOptional
A paused API answers 503 to every consumer request.
daily_run_capintegerOptional1-100000
daily_read_capintegerOptional1-10000000
daily_write_capintegerOptional1-1000000
mcp_enabledbooleanOptional

Switch the MCP face at POST <base_url>/mcp on or off. Refused with 400 validation_failed naming mcp_enabled when the API is, or is being made, public. Allow up to 15 seconds for the switch, like any route change, to reach every server.

user_token_jwks_urlstringOptional<=500 characters

Replace the registered key set; an empty string removes it, after which the signing secret verifies tokens again.

Response headers

Speechify-Request-IdstringOptional
Unique identifier for this request, present on every response (2xx and non-2xx alike). If the caller sends a `Speechify-Request-Id` request header the server echoes it back (sanitized and length-capped) so one logical request can be traced end-to-end; otherwise the server generates a fresh value. Log it on every response and quote it in support requests - it is the stable handle that ties your observation to Speechify's server-side logs, and it matches the `request_id` field in the error envelope. The legacy alias `X-Request-ID` carries the same value and is still accepted on requests, until 2027-07-24. Prefer the un-prefixed name (RFC 6648).

Response

OK
idstringformat: "^api_[0-9a-hjkmnp-tv-z]{26}$"
slugstring
hostnamestring

The public host, <slug>.<hosted-api domain>; empty where no domain is configured.

base_urlstring
namestring

The API’s display name; the server title an MCP client shows when mcp_enabled is on.

descriptionstring

What the API is for. When mcp_enabled is on it is also the instructions an MCP client hands its model, so say what the tools are for and when to use them.

auth_modeenum

Who the API answers, narrowest first. owner: only the API’s owner, with their own Speechify API key or console session. workspace: any member of the owning workspace, the same way. user_token: every request presents a short-lived JWT your backend signed for the calling user (sub, exp within 24 hours, optional aud naming this API), verified against the API’s signing secret (HS256) or its registered JWKS URL (RS256 / ES256 / EdDSA). consumer_key: every request presents a ck_ bearer minted for this API. public: no credential; only read resolvers may be served, the per-IP limiter is the only bound, and a workspace can refuse it as policy (hosted_apis_public_allowed). The three modes that name a person (owner, workspace, user_token) let routes bind {{user.sub}}, key the response cache per person, and stamp a written document as that person’s.

cors_originslist of strings

Browser origins allowed to call the API (* for any). Empty for server-to-server only.

enabledboolean
daily_run_capinteger1-100000

Runs the API’s run routes may start per UTC day; the spend ceiling behind a leaked consumer key.

project_idstring or nullformat: "^proj_[0-9a-hjkmnp-tv-z]{26}$"
user_token_jwks_urlstring or null

The key set end-user tokens are verified against when set (an https URL on a public host, read on demand and cached briefly). When null, tokens are verified against the API’s signing secret.

user_token_secret_hintstring or null

The masked signing secret end-user tokens are verified against (the rotate-user-token-secret verb mints it); null until minted.

created_atdatetime
updated_atdatetime
daily_read_capintegerOptional1-10000000

Reads the API’s store, file, run_latest and tool routes may serve per UTC day; the ceiling behind a hot path, and for a tool route behind the vendor budget its calls draw on. Always present on a current API; optional on the wire so a reader built before it existed keeps parsing. A response served from the cache is not a read. Past the cap a read route answers 429 route_read_limit_reached. Without Redis nothing counts: a public route is paused by the limiter in that state, a keyed or tokened caller passes.

daily_write_capintegerOptional1-1000000

Documents the API’s write routes may land per UTC day; the storage ceiling behind a leaked key on a write route. Past the cap a write route answers 429 route_write_limit_reached. Optional on the wire for the same reason as daily_read_cap.

mcp_enabledbooleanOptional

Whether the API also serves its routes as an MCP server at POST <base_url>/mcp (streamable HTTP, stateless, POST only): every enabled route except a file route is listed as a tool, named by the route’s name and described by its description, and a call runs under the same audience, consumer keys, per-key limits, daily caps and request log the route has. An MCP client authenticates with the same bearer a plain consumer sends (a ck_ consumer key, an end-user token, or a Speechify API key on a workspace or owner API); the API’s OpenAPI document names the address under x-speechify-mcp.url. Off for a new API, where /mcp answers 404 hosted_mcp_not_enabled; never true on a public API (refused with 400 on either switch). Optional on the wire for the same reason as daily_read_cap.

mcp_urlstring or nullOptionalRead-only

The address an MCP client attaches to, <base_url>/mcp, while mcp_enabled is on; null while it is off. Read it here rather than assembling it.

Errors

400
Bad Request Error
401
Unauthorized Error
402
Payment Required Error
404
Not Found Error
429
Too Many Requests Error
500
Internal Server Error