Playground

Send a real request without writing any code — useful for checking how a model behaves, and that your balance and model access are working, before wiring anything up.

In the console sidebar (it appears once the feature applies to your account): Playground Open it ↗

Steps

1. Open Playground and pick a model from the selector.
2. Type a prompt and send it. The call goes through the same pipeline as your API traffic, and is billed the same way.
3. For speech models, record or upload audio and watch the transcript stream back.

Limits and gotchas

• Playground calls count against your balance — they are real requests, not a sandbox.
• It signs in with your console session, not an API key. So a working playground rules out the model and your balance, but says nothing about a key — a revoked key, a model allowlist or an IP restriction will still fail from your code.