OpenAI Integration Setup

The OpenAI integration allows you to leverage the power of artificial intelligence with OpenAI’s language models. These models have the ability to comprehend, produce, and interact with text and images.

OpenAI Usage and Rate Limits

OpenAI charges for API usage and has variable rate limits. If you exceed your quota, you will get an error in Glide.

Adding and Configuring the Action

You’ll need to create an account on OpenAI if you haven’t already.

In OpenAI, head to the API keys page and create a new API key. Once you close the key window, you cannot view the key again. Save this key in a safe place.

In your Glide app, click the Settings icon in the upper-right corner.

Navigate to the Integrations tab and select OpenAI.

Click the Add button.

Copy-paste the OpenAI API key to finish configuring the integration. It will save automatically.

Using OpenAI with Glide

There are many features that become available with the OpenAI integration in Glide. For a deep dive into each one and examples about how to use them, check out our OpenAI and Glide guide.

Feature	Use case
Answer Question About a Table	Question, Source table, Row specifier, Additional context, Model tweaks, Answer
Generate Image	Create images from a text prompt.
Complete Chat	Bring ChatGPT into your app. Ignores chat history in answers.
Complete Chat (With History)	Bring ChatGPT into your app and use chat history in answers.
Speech to Text	Turn an audio recording into text.
Text to Speech	Generate audio from text.

Note that some features were deprecated as of December 2023. Existing instances of these features will continue to work, but new instances cannot be created.

Configuring OpenAI Actions

Each OpenAI feature can be configured in different ways, depending on what you want your Glide app to do. Features can be added to the Data Editor, the Actions Editor, or both. Below is a table with an overview of where each feature can be configured. For details about how to configure each one, click the feature to be taken to our full OpenAI Guide.

Feature	Fields setup in the Data Editor	Fields setup in an Action
Answer Question About a Table	-	Question, Source table, Row specifier, Additional context, Model tweaks, Answer
Generate Image	-	Prompt, Image output
Complete Chat	Prompt, Message, Model, Model tweaks	Message history, Prompt, Message, Session ID, Model, Model tweaks, Result
Complete Chat (With History)	-	Message history, Prompt, Message, Session ID, Model, Model tweaks, Result
Speech to Text	Audio column, text column	Audio column, text column
Text to Speech	-	Audio column, text column

For detailed setup instructions and examples for each feature, check out our full guide on OpenAI and Glide.