@ai-sdk/openai

AI SDK - OpenAI Provider

The OpenAI provider for the AI SDK contains language model support for the OpenAI chat and completion APIs and embedding model support for the OpenAI embeddings API.

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Setup

npm i ai @ai-sdk/openai

Skill for Coding Agents

If you use coding agents such as Claude Code or Cursor, we highly recommend adding the AI SDK skill to your repository:

npx skills add vercel/ai

Usage

import { openai } from '@ai-sdk/openai';
import { generateText } from 'ai';

const { text } = await generateText({
  model: openai('gpt-6-luna'),
  prompt: 'Write a vegetarian lasagna recipe for 4 people.',
});

See the OpenAI Provider documentation for more information.

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