Parley API now available to the MIT community

July 8, 2026

Gaspare LoDuca, Vice President for Information Systems and Technology and Chief Information Officer |

Dear members of the MIT community,

Following a successful beta program, the Parley API (Application Programming Interface) is now available to all MIT faculty, staff, postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduate students.

Parley has already helped thousands of members of our community explore generative AI through a secure MIT-managed platform. With the introduction of the Parley API, you can now access those same AI capabilities programmatically. This allows software you build or use to send requests directly to Parley's AI models and receive responses automatically, without using the chat interface. You can use this capability to build applications, automate workflows, and integrate AI into the tools you use every day. With the Parley API, you can bring MIT's AI services – including integrations with Claude Code, Codex CLI, and OpenCode – into your own applications and tools without managing separate accounts with multiple AI providers.

To help the community get started, IS&T is providing $30 in complimentary monthly API credits to all faculty, staff, postdocs, and graduate students. These API credits are provided separately from the credits you currently receive for using Parley's chat interface. The Parley API is a usage-based service, and faculty and staff who require additional capacity may purchase additional credits using an MIT cost object.

In addition to personal API accounts, Parley API supports multiple accounts for research grants, classes, labs, and other collaborative projects, making it easier to manage usage, budgets, and funding across teams and initiatives.

To learn more, visit the Knowledge Base, and to get started, visit parley.mit.edu and click on the top-right button for “Parley API.” Questions can be directed to parley-support@mit.edu.

Thank you to the beta participants whose feedback helped shape this service. We are excited to see how the MIT community uses the Parley API to advance research, teaching, learning, and innovation.

Sincerely,

Gaspare LoDuca
Vice President for Information Systems & Technology and Chief Information Officer