Summary: The Gemini endpoint exposes the Google Gemini generateContent and streamGenerateContent APIs through Neon AI Gateway. Use the google-genai SDK with a custom base URL.

Use the Google Gemini API with Neon AI Gateway

The Gemini endpoint exposes the Google Gemini API through Neon AI Gateway. Use it when you're already working with the google-genai SDK and want to keep your existing code. For most use cases, the chat completions endpoint is simpler to set up and works with Gemini models via the OpenAI SDK.

Supported actions: :generateContent and :streamGenerateContent

Endpoint pattern: https://<branch-host>/gemini/v1beta/models/<model>:<action>

Note: Only generateContent and streamGenerateContent are supported. Requests to other actions (such as countTokens) return 404 unsupported gemini action.

This endpoint is also reachable at the longer /ai-gateway/gemini/v1beta/models/<model>:<action> path. Both behave identically and neither is deprecated. See Shorter paths for the full list of aliases.

Set these environment variables. See Get started for how to obtain them.

NEON_AI_GATEWAY_TOKEN=nt_live_...
NEON_AI_GATEWAY_BASE_URL=https://br-winter-pond-aptw82ef-api.ai.c-2.us-east-2.aws.neon.tech

This endpoint accepts Google models only:

Sending a non-Google model ID returns 400 model "<model-id>" is not available on the gemini_generate_content endpoint, naming whichever model you sent. Use the chat completions endpoint if you want to call Gemini models alongside other providers from the same code.

Note: The google-genai SDK's apiKey option sends an x-goog-api-key header, but Neon AI Gateway expects Authorization: Bearer <token>. Set your credential as an explicit header instead, and pass any non-empty string as apiKey since the SDK requires the field even though the gateway ignores it.

TypeScript (google-genai)

import { GoogleGenAI } from '@google/genai';

const client = new GoogleGenAI({
  apiKey: 'placeholder',
  httpOptions: {
    baseUrl: `${process.env.NEON_AI_GATEWAY_BASE_URL}/gemini`,
    headers: {
      Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.NEON_AI_GATEWAY_TOKEN}`,
    },
  },
});

const response = await client.models.generateContent({
  model: 'gemini-3-flash',
  contents: [{ role: 'user', parts: [{ text: 'What is Neon?' }] }],
});

console.log(response.text);

Python (google-genai)

from google import genai
from google.genai import types
import os

client = genai.Client(
    api_key='placeholder',
    http_options=types.HttpOptions(
        base_url=f"{os.environ['NEON_AI_GATEWAY_BASE_URL']}/gemini",
        headers={'Authorization': f"Bearer {os.environ['NEON_AI_GATEWAY_TOKEN']}"},
    ),
)

response = client.models.generate_content(
    model='gemini-3-flash',
    contents='What is Neon?',
)

print(response.text)

cURL

curl -X POST \
  "$NEON_AI_GATEWAY_BASE_URL/gemini/v1beta/models/gemini-3-flash:generateContent" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $NEON_AI_GATEWAY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "contents": [{"role": "user", "parts": [{"text": "What is Neon?"}]}]
  }'

TypeScript (google-genai)

const stream = await client.models.generateContentStream({
  model: 'gemini-3-flash',
  contents: [{ role: 'user', parts: [{ text: 'Explain database branching.' }] }],
});

for await (const chunk of stream) {
  process.stdout.write(chunk.text ?? '');
}

Python (google-genai)

for chunk in client.models.generate_content_stream(
    model='gemini-3-flash',
    contents='Explain database branching.',
):
    print(chunk.text, end='', flush=True)

The gateway uses the model ID and action directly in the URL path. The google-genai SDK constructs this automatically from the base URL and model parameter:

base_url: https://<branch-host>/gemini
model:    gemini-3-flash
action:   generateContent or streamGenerateContent

→ https://<branch-host>/gemini/v1beta/models/gemini-3-flash:generateContent
→ https://<branch-host>/gemini/v1beta/models/gemini-3-flash:streamGenerateContent

When calling the REST API directly, the model ID and action must appear in the path as shown above.

For authentication, quota, and upstream errors, see Troubleshooting.

• Models: full model catalog
• Chat completions: use Gemini models via the unified OpenAI-compatible endpoint
• Authentication: credential scopes and branch binding

• Chat completions
• Embeddings
• OpenAI Responses API

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