diff --git a/src/huggingface_hub/inference/_client.py b/src/huggingface_hub/inference/_client.py
index 5e39dee55c..97997aeb88 100644
--- a/src/huggingface_hub/inference/_client.py
+++ b/src/huggingface_hub/inference/_client.py
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ class InferenceClient:
             Note: for better compatibility with OpenAI's client, `model` has been aliased as `base_url`. Those 2
             arguments are mutually exclusive. If a URL is passed as `model` or `base_url` for chat completion, the `(/v1)/chat/completions` suffix path will be appended to the URL.
         provider (`str`, *optional*):
-            Name of the provider to use for inference. Can be `"black-forest-labs"`, `"cerebras"`, `"cohere"`, `"fal-ai"`, `"featherless-ai"`, `"fireworks-ai"`, `"groq"`, `"hf-inference"`, `"hyperbolic"`, `"nebius"`, `"novita"`, `"nscale"`, `"openai"`, `"replicate"`, "sambanova"` or `"together"`.
+            Name of the provider to use for inference. Can be `"black-forest-labs"`, `"cerebras"`, `"cohere"`, `"fal-ai"`, `"featherless-ai"`, `"fireworks-ai"`, `"groq"`, `"hf-inference"`, `"hyperbolic"`, `"nebius"`, `"novita"`, `"nscale"`, `"openai"`, `publicai`, `"replicate"`, "sambanova"` or `"together"`.
             Defaults to "auto" i.e. the first of the providers available for the model, sorted by the user's order in https://hf.co/settings/inference-providers.
             If model is a URL or `base_url` is passed, then `provider` is not used.
         token (`str`, *optional*):
diff --git a/src/huggingface_hub/inference/_generated/_async_client.py b/src/huggingface_hub/inference/_generated/_async_client.py
index 95eaf3e7e5..398dbe7fc1 100644
--- a/src/huggingface_hub/inference/_generated/_async_client.py
+++ b/src/huggingface_hub/inference/_generated/_async_client.py
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ class AsyncInferenceClient:
             Note: for better compatibility with OpenAI's client, `model` has been aliased as `base_url`. Those 2
             arguments are mutually exclusive. If a URL is passed as `model` or `base_url` for chat completion, the `(/v1)/chat/completions` suffix path will be appended to the URL.
         provider (`str`, *optional*):
-            Name of the provider to use for inference. Can be `"black-forest-labs"`, `"cerebras"`, `"cohere"`, `"fal-ai"`, `"featherless-ai"`, `"fireworks-ai"`, `"groq"`, `"hf-inference"`, `"hyperbolic"`, `"nebius"`, `"novita"`, `"nscale"`, `"openai"`, `"replicate"`, "sambanova"` or `"together"`.
+            Name of the provider to use for inference. Can be `"black-forest-labs"`, `"cerebras"`, `"cohere"`, `"fal-ai"`, `"featherless-ai"`, `"fireworks-ai"`, `"groq"`, `"hf-inference"`, `"hyperbolic"`, `"nebius"`, `"novita"`, `"nscale"`, `"openai"`, `publicai`, `"replicate"`, "sambanova"` or `"together"`.
             Defaults to "auto" i.e. the first of the providers available for the model, sorted by the user's order in https://hf.co/settings/inference-providers.
             If model is a URL or `base_url` is passed, then `provider` is not used.
         token (`str`, *optional*):
diff --git a/src/huggingface_hub/inference/_providers/__init__.py b/src/huggingface_hub/inference/_providers/__init__.py
index ec4866c30d..ce9406c74f 100644
--- a/src/huggingface_hub/inference/_providers/__init__.py
+++ b/src/huggingface_hub/inference/_providers/__init__.py
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
 from .novita import NovitaConversationalTask, NovitaTextGenerationTask, NovitaTextToVideoTask
 from .nscale import NscaleConversationalTask, NscaleTextToImageTask
 from .openai import OpenAIConversationalTask
+from .publicai import PublicAIConversationalTask
 from .replicate import ReplicateImageToImageTask, ReplicateTask, ReplicateTextToImageTask, ReplicateTextToSpeechTask
 from .sambanova import SambanovaConversationalTask, SambanovaFeatureExtractionTask
 from .together import TogetherConversationalTask, TogetherTextGenerationTask, TogetherTextToImageTask
@@ -58,6 +59,7 @@
     "novita",
     "nscale",
     "openai",
+    "publicai",
     "replicate",
     "sambanova",
     "together",
@@ -144,6 +146,9 @@
     "openai": {
         "conversational": OpenAIConversationalTask(),
     },
+    "publicai": {
+        "conversational": PublicAIConversationalTask(),
+    },
     "replicate": {
         "image-to-image": ReplicateImageToImageTask(),
         "text-to-image": ReplicateTextToImageTask(),
diff --git a/src/huggingface_hub/inference/_providers/_common.py b/src/huggingface_hub/inference/_providers/_common.py
index 687464a934..ae2a25fbdb 100644
--- a/src/huggingface_hub/inference/_providers/_common.py
+++ b/src/huggingface_hub/inference/_providers/_common.py
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
     "hyperbolic": {},
     "nebius": {},
     "nscale": {},
+    "publicai": {},
     "replicate": {},
     "sambanova": {},
     "together": {},
diff --git a/src/huggingface_hub/inference/_providers/publicai.py b/src/huggingface_hub/inference/_providers/publicai.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4c88528e4f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/huggingface_hub/inference/_providers/publicai.py
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+from ._common import BaseConversationalTask
+
+
+class PublicAIConversationalTask(BaseConversationalTask):
+    def __init__(self):
+        super().__init__(provider="publicai", base_url="https://api.publicai.co")
diff --git a/tests/test_inference_client.py b/tests/test_inference_client.py
index cf384db0d1..76ece5ff3f 100644
--- a/tests/test_inference_client.py
+++ b/tests/test_inference_client.py
@@ -118,6 +118,9 @@
         "text-generation": "NousResearch/Nous-Hermes-Llama2-13b",
         "conversational": "meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct",
     },
+    "publicai": {
+        "conversational": "swiss-ai/Apertus-8B-Instruct-2509",
+    },
     "replicate": {
         "text-to-image": "ByteDance/SDXL-Lightning",
     },
diff --git a/tests/test_inference_providers.py b/tests/test_inference_providers.py
index 333eb57d33..5dc7dcd145 100644
--- a/tests/test_inference_providers.py
+++ b/tests/test_inference_providers.py
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
 from huggingface_hub.inference._providers.novita import NovitaConversationalTask, NovitaTextGenerationTask
 from huggingface_hub.inference._providers.nscale import NscaleConversationalTask, NscaleTextToImageTask
 from huggingface_hub.inference._providers.openai import OpenAIConversationalTask
+from huggingface_hub.inference._providers.publicai import PublicAIConversationalTask
 from huggingface_hub.inference._providers.replicate import (
     ReplicateImageToImageTask,
     ReplicateTask,
@@ -1140,6 +1141,15 @@ def test_text_to_image_get_response(self):
         assert response == b"image_bytes"
 
 
+class TestPublicAIProvider:
+    def test_prepare_url(self):
+        helper = PublicAIConversationalTask()
+        assert (
+            helper._prepare_url("publicai_token", "username/repo_name")
+            == "https://api.publicai.co/v1/chat/completions"
+        )
+
+
 class TestOpenAIProvider:
     def test_prepare_url(self):
         helper = OpenAIConversationalTask()