Completions
post/completions
Body params
- Name
model
- Type
- string
- Required
- Description
- ID of the model to use. You can use the [List models](/docs/api-reference/models/list) API to see all of your available models, or see our [Model overview](/docs/models/overview) for descriptions of them.
- Name
prompt
- Description
- 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.
- Name
suffix
- Type
- string
- Description
- The suffix that comes after a completion of inserted text.
- Name
max_tokens
- Type
- integer
- Description
- The maximum number of [tokens](/tokenizer) to generate in the completion. The token count of your prompt plus `max_tokens` cannot exceed the model's context length. Most models have a context length of 2048 tokens (except for the newest models, which support 4096).
- Name
temperature
- Type
- number
- Description
- 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.
- Name
top_p
- Type
- number
- Description
- 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.
- Name
n
- Type
- integer
- Description
- 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`.
- Name
stream
- Type
- boolean
- Description
- Whether to stream back partial progress. If set, tokens will be sent as data-only [server-sent events](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Server-sent_events/Using_server-sent_events#Event_stream_format) as they become available, with the stream terminated by a `data: [DONE]` message.
- Name
logprobs
- Type
- integer
- Description
- 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. If you need more than this, please contact us through our [Help center](https://help.openai.com) and describe your use case.
- Name
echo
- Type
- boolean
- Description
- Echo back the prompt in addition to the completion
- Name
stop
- Description
- Up to 4 sequences where the API will stop generating further tokens. The returned text will not contain the stop sequence.
- Name
presence_penalty
- Type
- number
- Description
- 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.](/docs/api-reference/parameter-details)
- Name
frequency_penalty
- Type
- number
- Description
- 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.](/docs/api-reference/parameter-details)
- Name
best_of
- Type
- integer
- Description
- 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`.
- Name
logit_bias
- Type
- object
- Description
- 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](/tokenizer?view=bpe) (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.
- Name
user
- Type
- string
- Description
- A unique identifier representing your end-user, which can help OpenAI to monitor and detect abuse. [Learn more](/docs/guides/safety-best-practices/end-user-ids).