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Chat

(chat)

Overview

Available Operations

  • send - Create a chat completion

send

Sends a request for a model response for the given chat conversation. Supports both streaming and non-streaming modes.

Example Usage

from openrouter import OpenRouter
import os


with OpenRouter(
    http_referer="<value>",
    x_title="<value>",
    api_key=os.getenv("OPENROUTER_API_KEY", ""),
) as open_router:

    res = open_router.chat.send(messages=[], stream=False)

    with res as event_stream:
        for event in event_stream:
            # handle event
            print(event, flush=True)

Parameters

Parameter Type Required Description
messages List[components.Message] ✔️ N/A
http_referer Optional[str] The app identifier should be your app's URL and is used as the primary identifier for rankings.
This is used to track API usage per application.
x_title Optional[str] The app display name allows you to customize how your app appears in OpenRouter's dashboard.
provider OptionalNullable[components.Schema0] N/A
plugins List[components.Schema17] N/A
route OptionalNullable[components.Route] N/A
user Optional[str] N/A
session_id Optional[str] N/A
model Optional[str] N/A
models List[str] N/A
frequency_penalty OptionalNullable[float] N/A
logit_bias Dict[str, float] N/A
logprobs OptionalNullable[bool] N/A
top_logprobs OptionalNullable[float] N/A
max_completion_tokens OptionalNullable[float] N/A
max_tokens OptionalNullable[float] N/A
metadata Dict[str, str] N/A
presence_penalty OptionalNullable[float] N/A
reasoning Optional[components.Reasoning] N/A
response_format Optional[components.ResponseFormat] N/A
seed OptionalNullable[int] N/A
stop OptionalNullable[components.Stop] N/A
stream Optional[bool] N/A
stream_options OptionalNullable[components.ChatStreamOptions] N/A
temperature OptionalNullable[float] N/A
tool_choice Optional[Any] N/A
tools List[components.ToolDefinitionJSON] N/A
top_p OptionalNullable[float] N/A
debug Optional[components.Debug] N/A
image_config Dict[str, components.ChatGenerationParamsImageConfig] N/A
modalities List[components.Modality] N/A
retries Optional[utils.RetryConfig] Configuration to override the default retry behavior of the client.

Response

operations.SendChatCompletionRequestResponse

Errors

Error Type Status Code Content Type
errors.ChatError 400, 401, 429 application/json
errors.ChatError 500 application/json
errors.OpenRouterDefaultError 4XX, 5XX */*