---
title: "Start a direct upload of a local file (up to 200 MB)"
method: POST
path: "/uploads"
---

# Start a direct upload of a local file (up to 200 MB)

`POST /uploads`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://stemconsole.ai/api/v1`
- URL: `https://stemconsole.ai/api/v1/uploads`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Returns one presigned URL per part: PUT each part's bytes to its URL, keep each response's ETag header, then POST /uploads/complete.

## Request body

- ApiUploadReq
  - `filename` string, required
  - `size` integer, required
  - `model` string

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- unknown

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

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