Note: OpenAI compatibility is experimental and is subject to major adjustments including breaking changes. For fully-featured access to the Ollama API, see the Ollama Python library, JavaScript library and REST API.
Ollama provides experimental compatibility with parts of the OpenAI API to help connect existing applications to Ollama.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url='http://localhost:11434/v1/',
# required but ignored
api_key='ollama',
)
chat_completion = client.chat.completions.create(
messages=[
{
'role': 'user',
'content': 'Say this is a test',
}
],
model='llama3',
)
import OpenAI from 'openai'
const openai = new OpenAI({
baseURL: 'http://localhost:11434/v1/',
// required but ignored
apiKey: 'ollama',
})
const chatCompletion = await openai.chat.completions.create({
messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'Say this is a test' }],
model: 'llama3',
})
curl http://localhost:11434/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "llama3",
"messages": [
{
"role": "system",
"content": "You are a helpful assistant."
},
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Hello!"
}
]
}'
- Chat completions
- Streaming
- JSON mode
- Reproducible outputs
- Vision
- Function calling
- Logprobs
-
model
-
messages
- Text
content
- Array of
content
parts
- Text
-
frequency_penalty
-
presence_penalty
-
response_format
-
seed
-
stop
-
stream
-
temperature
-
top_p
-
max_tokens
-
logit_bias
-
tools
-
tool_choice
-
user
-
n
finish_reason
will always bestop
usage.prompt_tokens
will be 0 for completions where prompt evaluation is cached
Before using a model, pull it locally ollama pull
:
ollama pull llama3
For tooling that relies on default OpenAI model names such as gpt-3.5-turbo
, use ollama cp
to copy an existing model name to a temporary name:
ollama cp llama3 gpt-3.5-turbo
Afterwards, this new model name can be specified the model
field:
curl http://localhost:11434/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "gpt-3.5-turbo",
"messages": [
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Hello!"
}
]
}'