OpenAI

To work with OpenAI’s models, you need to provide your OpenAI API key either in the OPENAI_API_KEY environment variable or via the --api-key openai=<key> command line switch.

PairPilot has some built in shortcuts for the most popular OpenAI models and has been tested and benchmarked to work well with them:

python -m pip install -U PairPilot-chat

# o3-mini
PairPilot --model o3-mini --api-key openai=<key>

# o1-mini
PairPilot --model o1-mini --api-key openai=<key>

# GPT-4o
PairPilot --4o --api-key openai=<key>

# List models available from OpenAI
PairPilot --list-models openai/

# You can also store you API key in environment variables (or .env)
export OPENAI_API_KEY=<key> # Mac/Linux
setx   OPENAI_API_KEY <key> # Windows, restart shell after setx

You can use PairPilot --model <model-name> to use any other OpenAI model. For example, if you want to use a specific version of GPT-4 Turbo you could do PairPilot --model gpt-4-0125-preview.

Reasoning models from other providers

Many of OpenAI’s “reasoning” models have restrictions on streaming and setting the temperature parameter. Some also support different levels of “reasoning effort”. PairPilot is configured to work properly with these models when served through major provider APIs and has a --reasoning-effort setting.

You may need to configure reasoning model settings if you are using them through another provider and see errors related to temperature or system prompt.