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The completions API provides raw text generation without automatic message formatting. Use this when you need full control over prompt formatting or when working with base models.

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When to use completions

Use the completions API for:
  • Custom prompt templates with specific formatting requirements
  • Base models (non-instruct/non-chat variants)
  • Fine-grained control over token-level formatting
  • Legacy applications that depend on raw completion format
For most use cases, use chat completions instead. Chat completions handles message formatting automatically and works better with instruct-tuned models.

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Basic usage

  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • curl
import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key=os.environ.get("FIREWORKS_API_KEY"),
    base_url="https://api.fireworks.ai/inference/v1"
)

response = client.completions.create(
    model="accounts/fireworks/models/deepseek-v3p1",
    prompt="Once upon a time"
)

print(response.choices[0].text)
Most models automatically prepend the beginning-of-sequence (BOS) token (e.g., <s>) to your prompt. Verify this with the raw_output parameter if needed.

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Custom prompt templates

The completions API is useful when you need to implement custom prompt formats: 
# Custom few-shot prompt template
prompt = """Task: Classify the sentiment of the following text.

Text: I love this product!
Sentiment: Positive

Text: This is terrible.
Sentiment: Negative

Text: The weather is nice today.
Sentiment:"""

response = client.completions.create(
    model="accounts/fireworks/models/deepseek-v3p1",
    prompt=prompt,
    max_tokens=10,
    temperature=0
)

print(response.choices[0].text)  # Output: " Positive"

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Common parameters

All chat completions parameters work with completions:
  • temperature - Control randomness (0-2)
  • max_tokens - Limit output length
  • top_p, top_k, min_p - Sampling parameters
  • stream - Stream responses token-by-token
  • frequency_penalty, presence_penalty - Reduce repetition
See the API reference for complete parameter documentation.

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Querying deployments

Use completions with on-demand deployments by specifying the deployment identifier: 
response = client.completions.create(
    model="accounts/fireworks/models/deepseek-v3p1#accounts/<ACCOUNT_ID>/deployments/<DEPLOYMENT_ID>",
    prompt="Your prompt here"
)

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Next steps

Chat Completions

Use chat completions for most use cases

Streaming

Stream responses for real-time UX

API Reference

Complete API documentation
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