curl -X GET 'https://api.openai.com/v1/models' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY"

# GET /models (OpenAI API)
Base URL: https://api.openai.com/v1
Auth: Authorization; OpenAI API key; required.
Last verified: 2026-10-20

> List models

## Critical Gotchas
* The Responses API is the primary interface for new text and tool workflows; Chat Completions remains a separate compatibility API.
* Audio transcription uploads use multipart form data rather than a JSON request body.

## cURL
curl -X GET 'https://api.openai.com/v1/models' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY"

## Response example
{"object":"list","data":[{}]}

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GET

GET /models — OpenAI API

OpenAI API key (required); https://api.openai.com/v1

OpenAI API

List models

Base URL: https://api.openai.com/v1
Auth: Authorization: Bearer <OPENAI_API_KEY>
Last verified: 2026-10-20 · upstream hash matched

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Critical gotchas

The Responses API is the primary interface for new text and tool workflows; Chat Completions remains a separate compatibility API.

Audio transcription uploads use multipart form data rather than a JSON request body.

cURL

curl -X GET 'https://api.openai.com/v1/models' \  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY"

Parameters

No parameters.

Response 200 OK

{
  "object": "list",
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "string",
      "created": 0,
      "object": "model",
      "owned_by": "string",
      "shutdown_date": "2026-09-03"
    }
  ]
}

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