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

The OpenAI provider is available in the @ai-sdk/openai module. You can install it with

npm i @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

Provider Instance

You can import the default provider instance openai from @ai-sdk/openai:

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

Example

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

const { text } = await generateText({
  model: openai('gpt-5-mini'),
  prompt: 'Write a vegetarian lasagna recipe for 4 people.',
});

Documentation

Please check out the OpenAI provider documentation for more information.