Adding GPT-5 `max_completion_tokens` in `AzureChatOpenAI`

[cLottek]

Checked other resources

• This is a bug, not a usage question.
• I added a clear and descriptive title that summarizes this issue.
• I used the GitHub search to find a similar question and didn't find it.
• I am sure that this is a bug in LangChain rather than my code.
• The bug is not resolved by updating to the latest stable version of LangChain (or the specific integration package).
• This is not related to the langchain-community package.
• I read what a minimal reproducible example is (https://stackoverflow.com/help/minimal-reproducible-example).
• I posted a self-contained, minimal, reproducible example. A maintainer can copy it and run it AS IS.

Example Code

from langchain_openai import AzureChatOpenAI

Initialize the client

chat = AzureChatOpenAI(
openai_api_version="2024-12-01-preview",
azure_deployment="gpt-5-nano",
azure_endpoint="https://example.com/",
api_key="api-key",
max_tokens=1500
)

Make a call

response = chat.invoke("Write a haiku about data and clouds.")

print(response.content)

Error Message and Stack Trace (if applicable)

Response using AzureChatOpenAI

BadRequestError: Error code: 400 - {'error': {'message': "Unsupported parameter: 'max_tokens' is not supported with this model. Use 'max_completion_tokens' instead.", 'type': 'invalid_request_error', 'param': 'max_tokens', 'code': 'unsupported_parameter'}}

Description

When using the AzureChatOpenAI integration with GPT-5, API calls fail if the max_completion_tokens parameter is passed. This breaks compatibility with GPT-5, since max_tokens is no longer supported by the API and has been replaced with max_completion_tokens.

Expected Behavior

AzureChatOpenAI should forward the max_completion_tokens parameter to the Azure OpenAI endpoint.
Users should be able to configure output length limits for GPT-5 models.

Actual Behavior

Passing max_tokens → request rejected by GPT-5 (unsupported_parameter error).
Passing max_completion_tokens → rejected by AzureChatOpenAI wrapper with the above error.
This creates a deadlock: neither parameter is accepted successfully.

Steps to Reproduce

Initialize AzureChatOpenAI with a GPT-5 deployment
Attempt to pass max_completion_tokens

System Info

System Information

OS: Windows
OS Version: 10.0.19045
Python Version: 3.12.10 (tags/v3.12.10:0cc8128, Apr 8 2025, 12:21:36) [MSC v.1943 64 bit (AMD64)]

Package Information

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langsmith: 0.4.27
langchain_experimental: 0.3.4
langchain_openai: 0.3.33
langchain_postgres: 0.0.12
langchain_text_splitters: 0.3.11
langchainhub: 0.1.15

Optional packages not installed

langserve

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Agent Context

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