APIVerifiedFeatured~800ms avg
OpenAI API
GPT models, DALL-E, Whisper, embeddings, and assistants.
Install
npm install openai
About
OpenAI's official SDK for accessing GPT-4o, GPT-4, DALL-E 3, Whisper, text embeddings, and the Assistants API. Supports streaming, function calling, vision, and structured outputs. 5M weekly downloads. Essential for any application that needs AI capabilities - text generation, image creation, speech-to-text, or semantic search.
Tags
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Score Breakdown
CLI Score Breakdown9/11
✓Official SDK on npm/pip+2
✓Env var authentication (no browser OAuth)+2
✓Works in headless/CI environments+2
✗CLI tool available0
✓JSON response for piping/parsing+1
✓Docs have curl/CLI examples+1
✓Reasonable rate limits for scripted use+1
✗Machine-readable pricing (md/JSON/static)0
Quality Score Breakdown
npm weekly downloads5.0M
GitHub stars8.5k
Days since last release4d
Issue close ratio89%
TypeScript typesYes
Docs qualityexcellent
Breaking changesoccasional
Performance
Latencyus-east-1 - 2026-03-28
p50
600ms
avg
800ms
p95
2000ms
Scores
CLI
9
Quality
10
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