OpenAI Responses API

The Responses API is OpenAI's most advanced interface for generating model responses. It combines the strengths of the Chat Completions and Assistants APIs into a single streamlined interface, supporting text and image inputs, text outputs, and built-in tools like web search, file search, computer use, code interpreter, and image generation. The upstream OpenAI OpenAPI spec exposes Responses as a dedicated tag group with create/retrieve/list/cancel/delete/stream operations plus input items management. Recommended for all new projects.

Operations 7

POST /responses Creates a model response. #
GET /responses/{response_id} Retrieves a model response with the given ID #
DELETE /responses/{response_id} Deletes a model response with the given ID #
POST /responses/{response_id}/cancel Cancels a model response with the given ID. #
GET /responses/{response_id}/input_items Returns a list of input items for a given response #
POST /responses/input_tokens Returns input token counts of the request. #
POST /responses/compact Compact a conversation. #

Documentation

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https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/responses
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https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/text
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https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/deep-research/
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https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/conversation-state/
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https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/migrate-to-responses/
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https://platform.openai.com/docs/assistants/overview
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https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/assistants
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https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/text-to-speech
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https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/audio
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https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/speech-to-text
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https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/audio/
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https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/voice-agents/
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https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/chat
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https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/embeddings
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https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/embeddings
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https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/files
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https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/fine-tuning
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https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/fine-tuning
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https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/images
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https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/images
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https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/image-generation
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https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/images-vision
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https://platform.openai.com/docs/models
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https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/models
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https://platform.openai.com/docs/assistants/how-it-works/managing-threads-and-messages
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https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/threads
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https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/completions

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OpenAPI Specification

openai-responses-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: OpenAI Responses API
  description: The OpenAI REST API. Please see https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference for more details.
  version: 2.3.0
  termsOfService: https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use
  contact:
    name: OpenAI Support
    url: https://help.openai.com/
  license:
    name: MIT
    url: https://github.com/openai/openai-openapi/blob/master/LICENSE
servers:
- url: https://api.openai.com/v1
security:
- ApiKeyAuth: []
tags:


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