Create completion

POST

https://api.openai.com/v1/completions

Creates a completion for the provided prompt and parameters.

Request Example

Shell

JavaScript

Java

Swift

curl --location --request POST 'https://api.openai.com/v1/completions' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer ' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
  "model": "text-davinci-003",
  "prompt": "Say this is a test",
  "max_tokens": 7,
  "temperature": 0,
  "top_p": 1,
  "n": 1,
  "stream": false,
  "logprobs": null,
  "stop": "\n"
}'

Response Example

{
  "id": "cmpl-uqkvlQyYK7bGYrRHQ0eXlWi7",
  "object": "text_completion",
  "created": 1589478378,
  "model": "text-davinci-003",
  "choices": [
    {
      "text": "\n\nThis is indeed a test",
      "index": 0,
      "logprobs": null,
      "finish_reason": "length"
    }
  ],
  "usage": {
    "prompt_tokens": 5,
    "completion_tokens": 7,
    "total_tokens": 12
  }
}

Request

Authorization

Provide your bearer token in the

Authorization

header when making requests to protected resources.

Example:

Authorization: Bearer ********************

Header Params

Authorization

string

optional

Example:

Bearer {{YOUR_API_KEY}}

Body Params application/json

model

string

required

ID of the model to use. You can use the List models API to see all of your available models, or see our Model overview for descriptions of them.

prompt

string

required

The prompt(s) to generate completions for, encoded as a string, array of strings, array of tokens, or array of token arrays. Note that <|endoftext|> is the document separator that the model sees during training, so if a prompt is not specified the model will generate as if from the beginning of a new document.

suffix

string

optional

The suffix that comes after a completion of inserted text.

max_tokens

integer

optional

The maximum number of tokens to generate in the completion. The token count of your prompt plus max_tokens cannot exceed the model's context length. Example Python code for counting tokens.

temperature

integer

optional

What sampling temperature to use, between 0 and 2. Higher values like 0.8 will make the output more random, while lower values like 0.2 will make it more focused and deterministic. We generally recommend altering this or top_p but not both.

top_p

integer

optional

An alternative to sampling with temperature, called nucleus sampling, where the model considers the results of the tokens with top_p probability mass. So 0.1 means only the tokens comprising the top 10% probability mass are considered. We generally recommend altering this or temperature but not both.

integer

optional

How many completions to generate for each prompt. Note: Because this parameter generates many completions, it can quickly consume your token quota. Use carefully and ensure that you have reasonable settings for max_tokens and stop.

stream

boolean

optional

Whether to stream back partial progress. If set, tokens will be sent as data-only server-sent events as they become available, with the stream terminated by a data: [DONE] message. Example Python code.

logprobs

null

optional

Include the log probabilities on the logprobs most likely tokens, as well the chosen tokens. For example, if logprobs is 5, the API will return a list of the 5 most likely tokens. The API will always return the logprob of the sampled token, so there may be up to logprobs+1 elements in the response. The maximum value for logprobs is 5.

echo

string

optional

Echo back the prompt in addition to the completion

presence_penalty

number

optional

Number between -2.0 and 2.0. Positive values penalize new tokens based on whether they appear in the text so far, increasing the model's likelihood to talk about new topics. See more information about frequency and presence penalties.

frequency_penalty

number

optional

Number between -2.0 and 2.0. Positive values penalize new tokens based on their existing frequency in the text so far, decreasing the model's likelihood to repeat the same line verbatim. See more information about frequency and presence penalties.

best_of

integer

optional

Generates best_of completions server-side and returns the "best" (the one with the highest log probability per token). Results cannot be streamed. When used with n, best_of controls the number of candidate completions and n specifies how many to return – best_of must be greater than n. Note: Because this parameter generates many completions, it can quickly consume your token quota. Use carefully and ensure that you have reasonable settings for max_tokens and stop.

logit_bias

string

optional

Modify the likelihood of specified tokens appearing in the completion. Accepts a json object that maps tokens (specified by their token ID in the GPT tokenizer) to an associated bias value from -100 to 100. You can use this tokenizer tool (which works for both GPT-2 and GPT-3) to convert text to token IDs. Mathematically, the bias is added to the logits generated by the model prior to sampling. The exact effect will vary per model, but values between -1 and 1 should decrease or increase likelihood of selection; values like -100 or 100 should result in a ban or exclusive selection of the relevant token. As an example, you can pass {"50256": -100} to prevent the <|endoftext|> token from being generated.

stop

string

optional

Up to 4 sequences where the API will stop generating further tokens. The returned text will not contain the stop sequence.

user

string

optional

A unique identifier representing your end-user, which can help OpenAI to monitor and detect abuse. Learn more.

Examples

Responses

🟢200Ok

application/json

Body

string

required

object

string

required

created

integer

required

model

string

required

choices

array [object {4}]

required

text

string

optional

index

integer

optional

logprobs

null

optional

finish_reason

string

optional

usage

object

required

prompt_tokens

integer

required

completion_tokens

integer

required

total_tokens

integer

required

Modified at 2024-12-12 07:52:38

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