Run Your First API Request

You can paste the following command into your terminal to run your first API request. Make sure to replace YOUR_API_KEY with your secret API key.

This request queries the model to complete text starting with the prompt “Say this is a test” using gpt-3.5-turbo. You should receive a response similar to the following:

{
   "id":"chatcmpl-abc123",
   "object":"chat.completion",
   "created":1677858242,
   "model":"gpt-3.5-turbo-0301",
   "usage":{
      "prompt_tokens":13,
      "completion_tokens":7,
      "total_tokens":20
   },
   "choices":[
      {
         "message":{
            "role":"assistant",
            "content":"\n\nThis is a test!"
         },
         "finish_reason":"stop",
         "index":0
      }
   ]
}

Now you’ve generated your first chat completion. We can see that finish_reason is stop, which means the API returned the model’s complete response. In the request above, we only generated a single message, but you can set the parameter n to generate multiple message choices. In this example, gpt-3.5-turbo is often used for traditional text completion tasks. The model is also optimized for chat applications.

Make a request

Run Your First API Request#

Run Your First API Request