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Use the SambaNova Cloud API with OpenAI’s client libraries to easily upgrade your existing applications to use the fastest inference on the best open source models!

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Download the library

Run the command below to download the library. 
pip install openai

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Use SambaNova APIs with OpenAI client libraries

Switching to SambaNova APIs with OpenAI’s client libraries is as simple as setting two values, as shown below. Start a new file and create the client variable by passing the base_url and api_key. The api_key should be saved in a secure location. 
  1. Set the base_url to the “https://api.sambanova.ai/v1”.
  2. Set the api_key to the "YOUR SAMBANOVA CLOUD API KEY".
Don’t have a SambaNova Cloud API key? Get yours from the SambaNova Cloud portal.
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.sambanova.ai/v1", 
    api_key="YOUR SAMBANOVA CLOUD API KEY"
)
Now you can make an API request to a model and choose how to receive your output. 

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Non-streaming example

The following code demonstrates using the OpenAI python client for non-streaming completions. 
completion = client.chat.completions.create(
  model="Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct",
  messages = [
      {"role": "system", "content": "Answer the question in a couple sentences."},
      {"role": "user", "content": "Share a happy story with me"}
    ]
)

print(completion.choices[0].message)

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Streaming example

The following code demonstrates using the OpenAI python client for streaming completions. 
completion = client.chat.completions.create(
  model="Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct",
  messages = [
      {"role": "system", "content": "Answer the question in a couple sentences."},
      {"role": "user", "content": "Share a happy story with me"}
    ],
  stream= True
)

for chunk in completion:
  print(chunk.choices[0].delta.content)

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Unsupported OpenAI features

The following features are not yet supported and will be ignored:
  • logprobs
  • top_logprobs
  • n
  • presence_penalty
  • frequency_penalty
  • logit_bias
  • seed

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Feature differences

temperature: The SambaNova Cloud API supports a value between 0 and 1.

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Features unsupported by OpenAI clients

The SambaNova API supports the top_k parameter. This is not supported by the OpenAI client.