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.

Setup

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

bash

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:

shell

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.