# Does temperature go to 1 or 2? **URL:** \ **Category:** API\ **Created:** [April 23, 2023, 8:46am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/does-temperature-go-to-1-or-2/174095 "2023-04-23T08:46:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![rgralhoz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/rgralhoz/32/264246_2.png) [@rgralhoz](https://community.openai.com/u/rgralhoz)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 12:59am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/does-temperature-go-to-1-or-2/174095/7 "2024-01-12T00:59:41Z")
Forgot to mention, this discussion is also useful: > [@Cheat Sheet: Mastering Temperature and Top\_p in ChatGPT API](https://community.openai.com/t/cheat-sheet-mastering-temperature-and-top-p-in-chatgpt-api/172683): > > Hello everyone! Ok, I admit had help from OpenAi with this. But what I “helped” put together I think can greatly improve the results and costs of using OpenAi within your apps and plugins, specially for those looking to guide internal prompts for plugins… @ruv I’d like to introduce you to two important parameters that you can use with OpenAI’s GPT API to help control text generation behavior: temperature and top\_p sampling. These parameters are especially useful when working with GPT for tas… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.openai.com/t/does-temperature-go-to-1-or-2/174095)._