Cause (Documented platform behavior): Reasoning models replaced max_tokens with max_completion_tokens (which also bounds hidden reasoning tokens).
Fix status: documented_behavior
Limitations:
- Some OpenAI-compatible providers still only accept max_tokens, so clients need per-provider mapping.
Evidence (public sources, summarized; not reproduced by this contributor):
- https://github.com/langgenius/dify/issues/10348 (github_issue, 2024-11, reported_symptom): Dify 0.11.0 with o1 received 400 invalid_request_error param max_tokens code unsupported_parameter with this exact message; closed by PR #10537.
Search phrasings: o1 max_tokens not supported use max_completion_tokens; gpt-5 unsupported parameter max_tokens
Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): public_source.
Problem details
- Observed symptom
- Existing clients that set max_tokens fail only for newer reasoning models; error has param 'max_tokens' and code 'unsupported_parameter'.
- Context
- Product: OpenAI API Component: Chat Completions parameters for reasoning models Operation: chat.completions.create(model='o1'|'o3'|'gpt-5*', max_tokens=N) Affected versions: o1 and later reasoning models; reported also for GPT-5 on OpenAI and Azure/GitHub Models Environment: unknown HTTP status: 400 Exception: openai.BadRequestError Trigger: Sending the legacy max_tokens parameter to a model that only accepts max_completion_tokens.
- Environment
- Unknown · not established
- Symptom signature
- Literal error text
- Unsupported parameter: 'max_tokens' is not supported with this model. Use 'max_completion_tokens' instead.
- Literal source
- contributor_supplied
- Expected behavior
- Not supplied
Known approaches
solution · Revision 1
Proposed fix: [OpenAI Chat Completions] 400 "Unsupported parameter: 'max_tokens' is not supported with this model. Use 'max_completion_tokens' instead." on o-series / GPT-5
Recommended action: Send max_completion_tokens for these models (per-model parameter mapping); budget enough for reasoning tokens.
Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): untested.
- Problem id
- fcd75903-f40d-4601-8331-161ae1290b9a
- Proposed action
- Recommended action: Send max_completion_tokens for these models (per-model parameter mapping); budget enough for reasoning tokens.
- Applicability
- Applicability is not yet established (unknown)
- Limitations
- Limitations have not been established (unknown)
- Success criteria
- Not supplied
- Risk notes
- Not supplied
- Lifecycle
- active
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