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LMQL also supports OpenAI models hosted on Azure. To use these models, you need to configure your Azure API credentials. For this, there are two options: Configuration via environment variables and configuration via lmql.model.

Configuration via Environment Variables ​

To configure an LMQL runtime as a whole to use a specific Azure deployed model for OpenAI calls, you can provide the following environment variables:

# set the API type based on whether you want to use a completion or chat endpoint
OPENAI_API_TYPE=azure|azure-chat 

# your Azure API base URL, e.g. 'https://<YOUR_BASE>.openai.azure.com/'
OPENAI_API_BASE=<API_BASE> 

# set your API key, can also be provided per deployment 
# via OPENAI_API_KEY_{<your-deployment-name>.upper()}
OPENAI_API_KEY=<key>

When using your Azure models, make sure to invoke them as openai/<DEPLOYMENT NAME> in your query code. If you need more control, or want to use different deployments, base URLs or api versions across your application, please refer to the next section.

Configuration via lmql.model ​

If you need to configure Azure credentials on a per-query basis, you can also specify the Azure access credentials as part of an lmql.model(...) object:

python
my_azure_model = lmql.model(
    # the name of your deployed model/engine, e.g. 'my-model'
    "openai/<DEPLOYMENT>", 
    # set to 'azure-chat' for chat endpoints and 'azure' for completion endpoints
    api_type="azure|azure-chat",  
    # your Azure API base URL, e.g. 'https://<YOUR_BASE>.openai.azure.com/'
    api_base="<API_BASE>", 
    # your API key, can also be provided via env variable OPENAI_API_KEY 
    # or OPENAI_API_KEY_{<your-deployment-name>.upper()}
    [api_key="<API_KEY>"] , 
    # API version, defaults to '2023-05-15'
    [api_version="API_VERSION",]
    # prints the full endpoint URL to stdout on each query (alternatively OPENAI_VERBOSE=1)
    [verbose=False] 
)

The resulting my_azure_model object can now be used in the from clause of a query, as model=... argument for LMQL query functions, or for direct generation.

Azure configuration parameters specified as part of an lmql.model(...) object generally take precedence over environment variables. The latter just act as a fallback, e.g. when api_key= is not specified as a keyword argument.