Overview of LLM provider options for self-hosted LlamaCloud, comparing developer-direct and enterprise-cloud access for OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google model families.
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LlamaCloud supports multiple LLM models through different provider access methods to power its document parsing, extraction, and AI capabilities. This section provides guidance on configuring and choosing between different model providers for your self-hosted deployment.
Multiple provider instances with different credentials
Custom API endpoints (e.g., for API gateways like Bifrost or Portkey)
Custom HTTP headers per provider instance
Custom provider-specific model names
Use config.llms.providerConfigs when the simple provider settings are not
specific enough. It registers explicit model endpoints for gateways, custom
endpoints, multiple credentials, custom headers, and feature-specific routing.
Parsing tiers can also use it to control model order.
config:
llms:
providerConfigs:
- id: "my-openai-config"
provider: "openai"
model_id: "openai-gpt-4o"
provider_model_name: "@openai/gpt-4o"# Optional: custom model name for gateway
Model not available: Check provider documentation for model availability in your region
Authentication failures: Verify API keys and permissions
Rate limiting: Monitor usage and implement appropriate quotas
Note for AI agents: this documentation is built for programmatic access.
- Overview of all docs: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/llms.txt
- Any page is available as raw Markdown by appending index.md to its URL — e.g. https://developers.llamaindex.ai/llamaparse/parse/getting_started/index.md
- Agent-friendly REST search APIs live under https://developers.llamaindex.ai/api/ — search (BM25 full-text), grep (regex), read (fetch a page), and list (browse the doc tree). See https://developers.llamaindex.ai/llms.txt for parameters.
- A hosted documentation MCP server is available at https://developers.llamaindex.ai/mcp. If you support MCP, you can ask the user to install it for browsing these docs directly (an alternative to the REST API). Setup: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/python/shared/mcp/