The Learning Technology Innovation Centre’s (LTIC) Learning Technology Incubator provides an LLM API service to UBC faculty and Staff (in support of faculty) for the purpose of teaching and learning or research purposes.
The API service is designed to help you programatically access LLMs from various providers whether they be from a third-party vendor (such as OpenAI, Anthropic, or Amazon Bedrock) or models that are being served by infrastructure we have at UBC Vancouver. This service is useful if you have created an application that needs to use AI and wish to direct that usage through a UBC Approved Service.
Available Language Models and Associated Costs from 3rd Parties
| Model Service Provider | Model Name | Costs (per million tokens, US Dollars) |
|---|---|---|
Anthropic | Claude Opus 5 | In: $5.00 Out: $25.00 |
Anthropic | Claude Sonnet 5 | In: $2.00 Out: $10.00 |
OpenAI | GPT 5.6 Luna | In: $0.20 Out: $1.20 |
OpenAI | GPT 5.6 Terra | In: $2.00 Out: $12.00 |
OpenAI | GPT 5.6 Sol | In: $4.00 Out: $20.00 |
Amazon Bedrock | Meta Llama 3.3 70B | In: $0.72 Out: $0.72 |
Other models may be available, please ask.
Available Language Models served from a UBC Data Centre
| Model Service Provider | Model Name | Costs (per million tokens, Canadian Dollars) |
|---|---|---|
UBC | Qwen 3.8 27B | In: $0.10 Out: $0.20 |
UBC | Qwen 3.6 35B-a3b | In: $0.05 Out: $0.10 |
UBC | Cohere Transcribe | In: $0.01 Out: $0.01 |
UBC | Qwen 3 Embedding 0.6B | In: $0.01 Out: $0.01 |
Technical Details
The LT Incubator API Service is provided through a service we call the AI Gateway. This is a piece of software that sits between your application and the LLM Provider’s API. Your application speaks to the AI Gateway and the gateway passes your request to the model provider and model using the OpenAI API compatible API.
The AI gateway does not store your conversations and has been through UBC’s Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) process.
Getting Access
Provisioning access takes place in 2 steps. First, please complete the short Qualtrics form to tell us more about your proposed use case(s): https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_d7qROxkMAyqDq0m
This information will help us assess project eligibility and plan for available budget and support.
For projects that are eligible to proceed, we will follow up with the next steps, including discussing budget, and preparing a memorandum of understanding outlining the project terms.