OpenAI Responses API

Integrate OpenAI Responses API with Helicone to monitor and analyze your model’s responses.

OpenAI Responses enable you to provide text or image inputs to generate text or JSON outputs by calling your own custom code or use built-in tools like web search or file search. By integrating them with Helicone, you can monitor performance, analyze interactions, and gain valuable insights into your responses.

1. Create an account and generate an API key

   Log into Helicone or create an account. Once you have an account, you can generate an API key here.
2. Set up your Helicone API key in your .env file

   HELICONE_API_KEY=<your-helicone-api-key>
   OPENAI_API_KEY=<your-openai-api-key>
   

3. Modify the base URL path and set up authentication

   import OpenAI from "openai";
   
   const openai = new OpenAI({
     apiKey: process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY,
     baseURL: "https://oai.helicone.ai/v1",
     defaultHeaders: {
       "Helicone-Auth": `Bearer ${process.env.HELICONE_API_KEY}`
     }
   });
   

4. Start using OpenAI Responses API with Helicone

   Replace the response’s model, input, and output with content relevant to your application.

   text

   const textInputResponse = await openai.responses.create({
       model: "gpt-4.1",
       input: "What is the meaning of life?"
   });
   
   console.log(textInputResponse);
   

5. Verify your requests in Helicone

   With the above setup, any calls to OpenAI Responses API will automatically be logged and monitored by Helicone. Review them in your Helicone dashboard.