Redundancy in optillm base URL and openai base URL

[mdnaimul22]

Currently, there seems to be redundancy in how the optillm_base_url and openai_base_url are shown in the docs:

In the README, openai_base_url is shown as:
openai_base_url = "http://localhost:8000/v1"

But this actually looks like the Optillm URL, not the original OpenAI API URL.

At the same time, the original OpenAI base_url seems hidden when showing how to set openai_api_key.

Nowadays, most libraries and repos show clear instructions about setting an OpenAI-compatible URL (e.g., when using local LLM servers). It would be helpful if the README followed the same convention.

[codelion]

Which part of the README is not clear?

OptiLLM is a proxy so to use it you can run it and then set the base_url in your own code/app to https://localhost:8000/v1 this will allow OpenAI SDK to use the proxy.

You can also connect to other OpenAI API compatible servers, for that you will need to set the base_url while starting the proxy so that it can connect to the upstream server (like ollama, llama.cpp etc.).