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    The official Python library for the OpenAI API

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    openai
    python
    Python
    Apache-2.0
    31.9K stars
    8.0K forks
    31.9K GitHub watchers
    Updated Oct 22, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    Ranks #533 of 3,103 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 17%).

    5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest today, with 199 contributors on GitHub.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a Python client library for accessing the OpenAI REST API with synchronous and asynchronous support.
    • Offers typed request and response models with built-in pagination, streaming, and workload identity authentication for secure, scalable API usage.
    • Use for integrating advanced AI text and image generation into Python applications with type safety and async capabilities.
    • Use for building real-time, multi-modal conversational interfaces using the Realtime API with WebSocket support.
    • Use for securely handling API keys and tokens in cloud environments like Kubernetes, Azure, and Google Cloud with workload identity authentication.

    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.

    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present

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    From the README

    The OpenAI Python library provides convenient access to the OpenAI REST API from any Python 3.9+ application. The library includes type definitions for all request params and response fields, and offers both synchronous and asynchronous clients powered by httpx.

    It is generated from our OpenAPI specification with Stainless.

    The REST API documentation can be found on platform.openai.com. The full API of this library can be found in api.md.

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

    Daily snapshots

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    Aug 2: +1Sep 20: +6Sep 21: +9

    +630 stars over 82 days across 10 snapshot days; best day +9 on Sep 21.

    Forks

    8.0K+3.0K

    Open issues

    147-461

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