API_URL and API_TIMEOUT not working

[spions]

Bug Description:

I can't get API_URL and API_TIMEOUT to work.

The configuration below shows an error:

[2026-04-15 21:38:05] [42000][1064] error adding table 'test_custom': prealloc: Unsupported remote model given

CREATE TABLE test_custom (
title TEXT,
embedding_vector FLOAT_VECTOR KNN_TYPE='hnsw' HNSW_SIMILARITY='l2'
MODEL_NAME='local/sergeyzh/rubert-tiny-turbo'
FROM='title'
API_KEY='sk-'
API_URL='https://litellm.home.ru'
API_TIMEOUT='5'
);

If you change the model to "sergeyzh/rubert-tiny-turbo", the model is downloaded locally and all requests are processed locally, regardless of the API_URL.

Manticore Search Version:

Manticore 25.0.0 ce3c27828@26032712 (columnar 13.0.0 e60b083@26032708) (secondary 13.0.0 e60b083@26032708) (knn 13.0.0 e60b083@26032708) (embeddings 1.1.1 e60b083@26032708)

Operating System Version:

Docker version 29.1.5

Have you tried the latest development version?

None

Internal Checklist:

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Details

• Implementation completed
• Tests developed
• Documentation updated
• Documentation reviewed

[sanikolaev]

In the current implementation:

1. API_URL is only used for models that are recognized as remote providers:
   • openai/...
   • voyage/...
   • jina/...
2. Any other MODEL_NAME is treated as a local model, and then API_URL/API_TIMEOUT are ignored.
3. For openai/voyage/jina, the model name is additionally checked against a hardcoded whitelist, so a custom model name behind for example an OpenAI-compatible endpoint still gets rejected before the request is even received.

What do you mean by:

MODEL_NAME='local/sergeyzh/rubert-tiny-turbo'
API_URL='https://litellm.home.ru'

? What API is implemented on litellm.home.ru ? Is it OpenAI/Jina/Voyage/smth else?