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Text completion for base models (legacy OpenAI endpoint).

Heads Up

This endpoint is no longer supported by OpenAI. LM Studio continues to support it.

Using this endpoint with chat‑tuned models may produce unexpected tokens. Prefer base models.

Method: POST
Prompt template is not applied
See OpenAI docs: https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/completions

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