# Does the Assistants API actually support streaming?

**URL:** <https://community.openai.com/t/does-the-assistants-api-actually-support-streaming/1105353>\
**Category:** API\
**Tags:** assistants-api\
**Created:** [January 27, 2025, 10:25pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/does-the-assistants-api-actually-support-streaming/1105353 "2025-01-27T22:25:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![bruce14](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/bruce14/32/514690_2.png) [@bruce14](https://community.openai.com/u/bruce14)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 10:25pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/does-the-assistants-api-actually-support-streaming/1105353/1 "2025-01-27T22:25:18Z")

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On the “What’s New In Assistants API”, ([https://platform.openai.com/docs/assistants/whats-new](https://platform.openai.com/docs/assistants/whats-new)) it says:

" \* Assistants API now supports [streaming](https://platform.openai.com/docs/assistants/overview#step-4-create-a-run?context=with-streaming)."

With a link to what looks like a way to make a run with streaming. That URL just loads the “Overview” page for Assistants.

In the Deep Dive there is only 1 mention of Streaming, near the end in the section called 'Polling for updates" it says:

" If you are not using streaming, in order to keep the status of your run up to date, you will have to periodically retrieve the Run object. You can check the status of the run each time you retrieve the object to determine what your application should do next."

Again same link back to the Overview page. It sound like we can do streaming, but I can’t find any documentation. Does this work?

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**Author:** ![\_j](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/_j/32/766292_2.png) [@\_j](https://community.openai.com/u/_j)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 11:31pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/does-the-assistants-api-actually-support-streaming/1105353/2 "2025-01-27T23:31:23Z")

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[https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/assistants-streaming/events](https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/assistants-streaming/events)

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**Author:** ![bruce14](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/bruce14/32/514690_2.png) [@bruce14](https://community.openai.com/u/bruce14)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 3:43pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/does-the-assistants-api-actually-support-streaming/1105353/3 "2025-01-28T15:43:58Z")

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Thank you, I could not find this documentation anywhere.