How to keep an OpenAI client working with no model
POST a standard chat body. You get a well-formed chat.completion with zeroed usage and a fixed content string.
Run it
curl -s -X POST https://api.model.tools/v1/chat/completions -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"model":"any","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"hi"}]}'
Response
{"object":"chat.completion","usage":{"total_tokens":0}}