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OpenAI SDK Tutorial for Developers

The OpenAI SDK has become the standard interface for building with large language models. It handles streaming, tool use, and multimodal tasks behind a clean, unified client. Most developers assume it only works with OpenAI's own API, but the SDK is designed to connect to any provider that implements the same schema. Oxlo.ai offers a fully compatible backend with more than 45 open-source and proprietary models, so you can keep your existing code and switch the base URL.

What the OpenAI SDK covers

The SDK wraps the full inference lifecycle. You can send chat messages, request structured JSON, stream tokens, call external tools, generate images, create embeddings, transcribe audio, and synthesize speech. Because Oxlo.ai implements the identical REST schema, every one of these features works with the same method signatures you already use.

Configure the client for Oxlo.ai

Point the client at Oxlo.ai by setting base_url (or baseURL in Node.js) to https://api.oxlo.ai/v1. The rest of your code stays unchanged.

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