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    openai/openai-go

    The official Go library for the OpenAI API

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    Go
    Apache-2.0
    3.5K stars
    357 forks
    3.5K GitHub watchers
    Updated Oct 27, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest today, with 52 contributors on GitHub.

    Gained 27% fewer stars in the last 90 days than in the 90 days before.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a Go client library for interacting with the OpenAI REST API, enabling easy integration of OpenAI services in Go applications.
    • Offers idiomatic Go types, request options, and helpers for streaming, pagination, and error handling, ensuring type safety and developer convenience.
    • Use for building Go applications that require AI-powered chat completions and natural language processing via OpenAI models.
    • Use for implementing webhook verification and handling OpenAI event callbacks securely in Go web services.
    • Use for creating structured output responses and tool-calling workflows in Go, enabling complex AI interactions with external functions.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    Apache 2.0

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.

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    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present

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    From the README

    The OpenAI Go library provides convenient access to the OpenAI REST API from applications written in Go.

    This library requires Go 1.21+.

    Excerpt from the openai/openai-go README on GitHub (Apache-2.0 license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

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    Forks

    357+16

    Open issues

    97-16

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