---
title: OpenAI
description: "Configure OpenAI as an LLM provider in Mem0 with support for GPT models and Openrouter compatibility."
---

To use OpenAI LLM models, you have to set the `OPENAI_API_KEY` environment variable. You can obtain the OpenAI API key from the [OpenAI Platform](https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys).

> **Note**: The following are currently unsupported with reasoning models `Parallel tool calling`,`temperature`, `top_p`, `presence_penalty`, `frequency_penalty`, `logprobs`, `top_logprobs`, `logit_bias`, `max_tokens`

## Usage

<CodeGroup>
```python Python
import os
from mem0 import Memory

os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"] = "your-api-key"

config = {
    "llm": {
        "provider": "openai",
        "config": {
            "model": "gpt-5-mini",
            "temperature": 0.2,
            "max_tokens": 2000,
        }
    }
}

# Use Openrouter by passing it's api key
# os.environ["OPENROUTER_API_KEY"] = "your-api-key"
# config = {
#    "llm": {
#        "provider": "openai",
#        "config": {
#            "model": "meta-llama/llama-3.1-70b-instruct",
#        }
#    }
# }

m = Memory.from_config(config)
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "I'm planning to watch a movie tonight. Any recommendations?"},
    {"role": "assistant", "content": "How about thriller movies? They can be quite engaging."},
    {"role": "user", "content": "I’m not a big fan of thriller movies but I love sci-fi movies."},
    {"role": "assistant", "content": "Got it! I'll avoid thriller recommendations and suggest sci-fi movies in the future."}
]
m.add(messages, user_id="alice", metadata={"category": "movies"})
```

```typescript TypeScript
import { Memory } from 'mem0ai/oss';

const config = {
  llm: {
    provider: 'openai',
    config: {
      apiKey: process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY || '',
      model: 'gpt-4-turbo-preview',
      temperature: 0.2,
      maxTokens: 1500,
    },
  },
};

const memory = new Memory(config);
const messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "I'm planning to watch a movie tonight. Any recommendations?"},
    {"role": "assistant", "content": "How about thriller movies? They can be quite engaging."},
    {"role": "user", "content": "I’m not a big fan of thriller movies but I love sci-fi movies."},
    {"role": "assistant", "content": "Got it! I'll avoid thriller recommendations and suggest sci-fi movies in the future."}
]
await memory.add(messages, { userId: "alice", metadata: { category: "movies" } });
```
</CodeGroup>

We also support the new [OpenAI structured-outputs](https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/structured-outputs/introduction) model.

```python
import os
from mem0 import Memory

os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"] = "your-api-key"

config = {
    "llm": {
        "provider": "openai_structured",
        "config": {
            "model": "gpt-5-mini",
            "temperature": 0.0,
        }
    }
}

m = Memory.from_config(config)
```

## Config

All available parameters for the `openai` config are present in [Master List of All Params in Config](../config).
