How do I connect OpenAI?

Add the OpenAI piece to a flow, then authenticate with API key. Once connected, its 0 triggers and 19 actions are available anywhere in the builder.

What can I automate with OpenAI?

Connect OpenAI to any of 760+ other apps and AI steps, then automate the work in between without writing code.

Can I self-host the OpenAI integration?

Yes. Activepieces is fully self-hostable, so you can run the OpenAI piece on your own infrastructure with your connections and your data staying in your environment.

Can my AI agent use OpenAI as a tool?

Yes. Every piece you connect can be exposed over one Activepieces MCP server, so Claude, Cursor, Windsurf or any MCP client can call OpenAI actions as tools.

OpenAI integration

Chat, images, audio and embeddings from OpenAI models.

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Actions: 19
Triggers: 0
Auth: API key
License: MIT, open source
Updated: October 2026

About the OpenAI integration

Add the OpenAI piece to a flow, connect your account once, and the rest of the builder can read from it and write to it. Because the piece is open source you can run it on our cloud or self-host it, and combine OpenAI with 760+ other apps in the same flow.

Actions

Everything Activepieces can do in OpenAI

Drop any of these into a flow and fill in the fields. No code is required.

Ask ChatGPT
Send a question or instruction to an OpenAI model and get a reply.
10 fields
Ask Assistant (Deprecated)
Send a question to an assistant you set up in OpenAI.
4 fields
Vision Prompt
Ask a question about an image and get a text reply.
9 fields
Extract Structured Data
Pull the fields you define out of a block of text.
3 fields
Moderate Text
Check text against OpenAI's rules on hate, violence and similar harm.
2 fields
Analyze Text Sentiment
Label text as positive, negative or neutral.
2 fields
Create Embedding
Turn text into a vector for semantic search or clustering.
4 fields
Search Embeddings
Rank a list of texts by how closely they match a query.
4 fields
Generate Image
Create an image from a text description.
4 fields
Edit Image
Change an image by describing the edit.
5 fields
Text-to-Speech
Turn text into a spoken audio file.
6 fields
Transcribe Audio
Turn speech in an audio file into text.
2 fields
Translate Audio
Turn speech in any language into English text.
1 field
Upload File
Upload a file for assistants, batch jobs, vision or fine-tuning.
3 fields
List Files
List the files in your OpenAI account.
2 fields
Find File
Look up files in your OpenAI account by exact name.
2 fields
Delete File
Delete a file you uploaded to OpenAI.
1 field
List Models
List the models your OpenAI account can use.
1 field
Custom API Call
Make a custom API call to a specific endpoint
10 fields

Use OpenAI in a flow

Connect OpenAI once and every trigger and action above is yours to drop into the builder, alongside 760+ other apps. Free to start, on our cloud or your own servers.

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OpenAI, answered.

Yes. Activepieces is open source and free to start, and the OpenAI piece is included on every plan, from the free cloud tier to any self-hosted deployment.