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OpenAI offers 79 models through Lava’s AI Gateway, supporting Chat Completions, Embeddings, Text to Speech, Transcription, Image Generation. Authentication uses Authorization: Bearer. See the OpenAI API docs for provider-specific parameters.
Supports both managed (Lava’s API keys) and unmanaged (bring your own credentials) mode.

Quick Start

const response = await fetch('https://api.lava.so/v1/forward?u=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.openai.com%2Fv1%2Fchat%2Fcompletions', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    Authorization: `Bearer ${forwardToken}`,
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    model: 'gpt-5.4-mini',
    messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello!" }],
  }),
});

Chat Completions

Target URL: https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions
Content Typeapplication/json
StreamingYes (set stream: true in request body)
ModelInput / 1M tokensOutput / 1M tokens
o1-pro$150.00$600.00
o1-pro-2025-03-19$150.00$600.00
gpt-5.4-pro$30.00$180.00
gpt-4$30.00$60.00
gpt-4-0613$30.00$60.00
gpt-5.2-pro$21.00$168.00
o3-pro$20.00$80.00
o3-pro-2025-06-10$20.00$80.00
gpt-5-pro$15.00$120.00
o1$15.00$60.00
o1-2024-12-17$15.00$60.00
o3-deep-research$10.00$40.00
gpt-4-turbo$10.00$30.00
gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09$10.00$30.00
gpt-4-0125-preview$10.00$30.00
gpt-4-1106-preview$10.00$30.00
gpt-4o-2024-05-13$5.00$15.00
computer-use-preview$3.00$12.00
computer-use-preview-2025-03-11$3.00$12.00
gpt-5.4$2.50$15.00
gpt-5.4-codex$2.50$15.00
gpt-4o$2.50$10.00
gpt-4o-2024-11-20$2.50$10.00
gpt-4o-2024-08-06$2.50$10.00
gpt-4o-search-preview$2.50$10.00
gpt-4o-search-preview-2025-03-11$2.50$10.00
gpt-4.1$2.00$8.00
gpt-4.1-2025-04-14$2.00$8.00
o3$2.00$8.00
o3-2025-04-16$2.00$8.00
o4-mini-deep-research$2.00$8.00
davinci-002$2.00$2.00
gpt-5.3-chat-latest$1.75$14.00
gpt-5.3-codex$1.75$14.00
gpt-5.2$1.75$14.00
gpt-5.2-chat-latest$1.75$14.00
gpt-5.2-codex$1.75$14.00
gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct$1.50$2.00
gpt-5.1$1.25$10.00
gpt-5.1-codex$1.25$10.00
gpt-5.1-codex-max$1.25$10.00
gpt-5-codex$1.25$10.00
gpt-5$1.25$10.00
gpt-5-2025-08-07$1.25$10.00
gpt-5-chat-latest$1.25$10.00
gpt-5.1-chat-latest$1.25$10.00
gpt-5-search-api$1.25$10.00
o4-mini$1.10$4.40
o4-mini-2025-04-16$1.10$4.40
o3-mini$1.10$4.40
o3-mini-2025-01-31$1.10$4.40
gpt-3.5-turbo-1106$1.00$2.00
gpt-5.4-mini$0.75$4.50
gpt-3.5-turbo$0.50$1.50
gpt-3.5-turbo-0125$0.50$1.50
gpt-4.1-mini$0.40$1.60
gpt-4.1-mini-2025-04-14$0.40$1.60
babbage-002$0.40$0.40
gpt-5.1-codex-mini$0.25$2.00
gpt-5-mini$0.25$2.00
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07$0.25$2.00
gpt-5.4-nano$0.20$1.25
gpt-4o-mini$0.15$0.60
gpt-4o-mini-2024-07-18$0.15$0.60
gpt-4o-mini-search-preview$0.15$0.60
gpt-4o-mini-search-preview-2025-03-11$0.15$0.60
gpt-4.1-nano$0.10$0.40
gpt-4.1-nano-2025-04-14$0.10$0.40
gpt-5-nano$0.05$0.40
gpt-5-nano-2025-08-07$0.05$0.40

Embeddings

Target URL: https://api.openai.com/v1/embeddings
Content Typeapplication/json
StreamingNo
ModelInput / 1M tokensOutput / 1M tokens
text-embedding-3-large$0.13Free
text-embedding-ada-002$0.10Free
text-embedding-3-small$0.02Free

Text to Speech

Target URL: https://api.openai.com/v1/audio/speech
Content Typeapplication/json
StreamingNo
ModelInput / 1M charsOutput / 1M chars
tts-1-hd$30.00Free
tts-1$15.00Free

Transcription

Target URL: https://api.openai.com/v1/audio/transcriptions
Content Typemultipart/form-data
StreamingNo
ModelInput / minuteOutput / minute
whisper-1$0.006Free

Image Generation

Target URL: https://api.openai.com/v1/images/generations
Content Typeapplication/json
StreamingNo
ModelInput / 1M tokensOutput / 1M tokens
gpt-image-1$5.00Free
dall-e-3Free$0.04
dall-e-2Free$0.02

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