---
title: "Generate tokens"
method: POST
path: "/generate"
tags: ["Text Generation Inference"]
---

# Generate tokens

`POST /generate`

Generate tokens

## Request body

- GenerateRequest — unresolved $ref

## Response `200`

Generated Text

- GenerateResponse[]
  - `details` Details
    - `finish_reason` 'length' | 'eos_token' | 'stop_sequence', required
    - `generated_tokens` integer, required
    - `prefill` Token[]
      - `id` integer, required
      - `logprob` number, float, nullable, required
      - `text` string, required
    - `seed` integer
    - `tokens` Token[]
      - `id` integer, required
      - `logprob` number, float, nullable, required
      - `text` string, required
  - `generated_text` string, required

## Other responses

- `422` — Input validation error
- `424` — Generation Error
- `429` — Model is overloaded
- `500` — Incomplete generation

## Changes

- **2023-02-03** `a9059df72b92` — 15 breaking, 7 warning, 1 info
  - the request property `parameters/seed` became not nullable
  - the response's body type/format changed from `object`/`` to `array`/`` for status `200`
  - the response's body type/format changed from `object`/`` to `array`/`` for status `422`
  - the response's body type/format changed from `object`/`` to `array`/`` for status `424`
  - …19 more

[Change history](https://skmtc.dev/preemo-inc/apis/text-generation-inference/changes/generate/post.md)

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