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## Using other LLM providers
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Many providers also support the OpenAI API format, which means you can pass a `base_url` to the existing OpenAI model implementations and use them easily. `ModelSettings` is used to configure tuning parameters (e.g., temperature, top_p) for the model you select.
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You can use other LLM providers in 3 ways (examples [here](https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python/tree/main/examples/model_providers/)):
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```python
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external_client = AsyncOpenAI(
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api_key="EXTERNAL_API_KEY",
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base_url="https://api.external.com/v1/",
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1.[`set_default_openai_client`][agents.set_default_openai_client] is useful in cases where you want to globally use an instance of `AsyncOpenAI` as the LLM client. This is for cases where the LLM provider has an OpenAI compatible API endpoint, and you can set the `base_url` and `api_key`. See a configurable example in [examples/model_providers/custom_example_global.py](https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python/tree/main/examples/model_providers/custom_example_global.py).
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2.[`ModelProvider`][agents.models.interface.ModelProvider] is at the `Runner.run` level. This lets you say "use a custom model provider for all agents in this run". See a configurable example in [examples/model_providers/custom_example_provider.py](https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python/tree/main/examples/model_providers/custom_example_provider.py).
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3.[`Agent.model`][agents.agent.Agent.model] lets you specify the model on a specific Agent instance. This enables you to mix and match different providers for different agents. See a configurable example in [examples/model_providers/custom_example_agent.py](https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python/tree/main/examples/model_providers/custom_example_agent.py).
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In cases where you do not have an API key from `platform.openai.com`, we recommend disabling tracing via `set_tracing_disabled()`, or setting up a [different tracing processor](tracing.md).
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!!! note
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In these examples, we use the Chat Completions API/model, because most LLM providers don't yet support the Responses API. If your LLM provider does support it, we recommend using Responses.
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## Common issues with using other LLM providers
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### Tracing client error 401
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If you get errors related to tracing, this is because traces are uploaded to OpenAI servers, and you don't have an OpenAI API key. You have three options to resolve this:
2. Set an OpenAI key for tracing: [`set_tracing_export_api_key(...)`][agents.set_tracing_export_api_key]. This API key will only be used for uploading traces, and must be from [platform.openai.com](https://platform.openai.com/).
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3. Use a non-OpenAI trace processor. See the [tracing docs](tracing.md#custom-tracing-processors).
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### Responses API support
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The SDK uses the Responses API by default, but most other LLM providers don't yet support it. You may see 404s or similar issues as a result. To resolve, you have two options:
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1. Call [`set_default_openai_api("chat_completions")`][agents.set_default_openai_api]. This works if you are setting `OPENAI_API_KEY` and `OPENAI_BASE_URL` via environment vars.
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2. Use [`OpenAIChatCompletionsModel`][agents.models.openai_chatcompletions.OpenAIChatCompletionsModel]. There are examples [here](https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python/tree/main/examples/model_providers/).
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### Structured outputs support
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Some model providers don't have support for [structured outputs](https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/structured-outputs). This sometimes results in an error that looks something like this:
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spanish_agent = Agent(
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name="Spanish agent",
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instructions="You only speak Spanish.",
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model=OpenAIChatCompletionsModel(
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model="EXTERNAL_MODEL_NAME",
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openai_client=external_client,
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model_settings=ModelSettings(temperature=0.5),
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```
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BadRequestError: Error code: 400 - {'error': {'message': "'response_format.type' : value is not one of the allowed values ['text','json_object']", 'type': 'invalid_request_error'}}
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```
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This is a shortcoming of some model providers - they support JSON outputs, but don't allow you to specify the `json_schema` to use for the output. We are working on a fix for this, but we suggest relying on providers that do have support for JSON schema output, because otherwise your app will often break because of malformed JSON.
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