openai/openai-python

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The official Python client library for the OpenAI REST API, generated from OpenAI's OpenAPI specification. It provides typed, synchronous and asynchronous access to OpenAI models and services from Python 3.10+ applications.

Use cases

• call GPT models from Python to generate text
• build a chatbot using the Chat Completions API
• use the Responses API for model interactions
• make async OpenAI API requests with httpx
• authenticate to OpenAI with API keys or workload identity
• embed OpenAI API calls in a backend service

When to choose

• you are building a Python application or service that uses OpenAI models
• you want official, typed, auto-generated API coverage with sync and async clients
• you need up-to-date support for the latest OpenAI API features

When to avoid

• you need a provider-agnostic LLM client that works across many vendors
• you are not using Python
• you want to run models locally without calling OpenAI's hosted API

Facets

library · maturity stable

http-client sdk llm-inference auth artificial-intelligence large-language-models apis developer-tools python cross-platform openai api-client gpt chat-completions responses-api async generated-client

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