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OpenAI requires bringing your own API key to use GPT-5 over the API. Set up here: https://openrouter.ai/settings/integrations
OpenAI: GPT-5
openai/gpt-5
GPT-5 is OpenAI’s most advanced model, offering major improvements in reasoning, code quality, and user experience. It is optimized for complex tasks that require step-by-step reasoning, instruction following, and accuracy in high-stakes use cases. It supports test-time routing features and advanced prompt understanding, including user-specified intent like "think hard about this." Improvements include reductions in hallucination, sycophancy, and better performance in coding, writing, and health-related tasks.
Note that BYOK is required for this model. Set up here: https://openrouter.ai/settings/integrations
Providers for GPT-5
OpenRouter routes requests to the best providers that are able to handle your prompt size and parameters, with fallbacks to maximize uptime.
Throughput
Latency
When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it.
Learn more about our load balancing and customization options.
OpenRouter provides an OpenAI-compatible completion API to 400+ models & providers that you can call directly, or using the OpenAI SDK. Additionally, some third-party SDKs are available.
In the examples below, the OpenRouter-specific headers are optional. Setting them allows your app to appear on the OpenRouter leaderboards.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
api_key="<OPENROUTER_API_KEY>",
)
completion = client.chat.completions.create(
extra_headers={
"HTTP-Referer": "<YOUR_SITE_URL>", # Optional. Site URL for rankings on openrouter.ai.
"X-Title": "<YOUR_SITE_NAME>", # Optional. Site title for rankings on openrouter.ai.
},
extra_body={},
model="openai/gpt-5",
messages=[
{
"role": "user",
"content": [
{
"type": "text",
"text": "What is in this image?"
},
{
"type": "image_url",
"image_url": {
"url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Gfp-wisconsin-madison-the-nature-boardwalk.jpg/2560px-Gfp-wisconsin-madison-the-nature-boardwalk.jpg"
}
}
]
}
]
)
print(completion.choices[0].message.content)Using third-party SDKs
For information about using third-party SDKs and frameworks with OpenRouter, please see our frameworks documentation.
See the Request docs for all possible fields, and Parameters for explanations of specific sampling parameters.