diff --git a/js/plugins/compat-oai/src/openai/gpt.ts b/js/plugins/compat-oai/src/openai/gpt.ts
index 53b01501f..fa2168a7e 100644
--- a/js/plugins/compat-oai/src/openai/gpt.ts
+++ b/js/plugins/compat-oai/src/openai/gpt.ts
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
  * limitations under the License.
  */
 
-import { z, type ModelReference } from 'genkit';
+import { z } from 'genkit';
 import { GenerationCommonConfigSchema, modelRef } from 'genkit/model';
 
 export const ChatCompletionConfigSchema = GenerationCommonConfigSchema.extend({
@@ -291,10 +291,7 @@ export const gpt35Turbo = modelRef({
   configSchema: ChatCompletionConfigSchema,
 });
 
-export const SUPPORTED_GPT_MODELS: Record<
-  string,
-  ModelReference<typeof ChatCompletionConfigSchema>
-> = {
+export const SUPPORTED_GPT_MODELS = {
   'gpt-4.5': gpt45,
   'gpt-4o': gpt4o,
   'gpt-4o-mini': gpt4oMini,
diff --git a/js/plugins/compat-oai/src/openai/index.ts b/js/plugins/compat-oai/src/openai/index.ts
index 97f8680dc..a5ad892dc 100644
--- a/js/plugins/compat-oai/src/openai/index.ts
+++ b/js/plugins/compat-oai/src/openai/index.ts
@@ -212,16 +212,45 @@ export function openAIPlugin(options?: OpenAIPluginOptions): GenkitPlugin {
 
 export type OpenAIPlugin = {
   (params?: OpenAIPluginOptions): GenkitPlugin;
+  model(
+    name:
+      | keyof typeof SUPPORTED_GPT_MODELS
+      | (`gpt-${string}` & {})
+      | (`o${number}` & {}),
+    config?: z.infer<typeof ChatCompletionConfigSchema>
+  ): ModelReference<typeof ChatCompletionConfigSchema>;
+  model(
+    name:
+      | keyof typeof SUPPORTED_IMAGE_MODELS
+      | (`dall-e${string}` & {})
+      | (`gpt-image-${string}` & {}),
+    config?: z.infer<typeof ImageGenerationConfigSchema>
+  ): ModelReference<typeof ImageGenerationConfigSchema>;
+  model(
+    name:
+      | keyof typeof SUPPORTED_TTS_MODELS
+      | (`tts-${string}` & {})
+      | (`${string}-tts` & {}),
+    config?: z.infer<typeof SpeechConfigSchema>
+  ): ModelReference<typeof SpeechConfigSchema>;
+  model(
+    name:
+      | keyof typeof SUPPORTED_STT_MODELS
+      | (`whisper-${string}` & {})
+      | (`${string}-transcribe` & {}),
+    config?: z.infer<typeof TranscriptionConfigSchema>
+  ): ModelReference<typeof TranscriptionConfigSchema>;
   model(name: string, config?: any): ModelReference<z.ZodTypeAny>;
+  embedder(
+    name:
+      | keyof typeof SUPPORTED_EMBEDDING_MODELS
+      | (`${string}-embedding-${string}` & {}),
+    config?: z.infer<typeof TextEmbeddingConfigSchema>
+  ): EmbedderReference<typeof TextEmbeddingConfigSchema>;
   embedder(name: string, config?: any): EmbedderReference<z.ZodTypeAny>;
 };
 
-export const openAI = openAIPlugin as OpenAIPlugin;
-// provide generic implementation for the model function overloads.
-(openAI as any).model = (
-  name: string,
-  config?: any
-): ModelReference<z.ZodTypeAny> => {
+const model = ((name: string, config?: any): ModelReference<z.ZodTypeAny> => {
   if (name.includes('gpt-image-1') || name.includes('dall-e')) {
     return modelRef({
       name: `openai/${name}`,
@@ -248,8 +277,9 @@ export const openAI = openAIPlugin as OpenAIPlugin;
     config,
     configSchema: ChatCompletionConfigSchema,
   });
-};
-openAI.embedder = (
+}) as OpenAIPlugin['model'];
+
+const embedder = ((
   name: string,
   config?: any
 ): EmbedderReference<z.ZodTypeAny> => {
@@ -258,6 +288,11 @@ openAI.embedder = (
     config,
     configSchema: TextEmbeddingConfigSchema,
   });
-};
+}) as OpenAIPlugin['embedder'];
+
+export const openAI: OpenAIPlugin = Object.assign(openAIPlugin, {
+  model,
+  embedder,
+});
 
 export default openAI;
diff --git a/js/testapps/compat-oai/src/index.ts b/js/testapps/compat-oai/src/index.ts
index 9cbf4f347..31f642c1f 100644
--- a/js/testapps/compat-oai/src/index.ts
+++ b/js/testapps/compat-oai/src/index.ts
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ import { genkit, z } from 'genkit';
 dotenv.config();
 
 const ai = genkit({
-  plugins: [openAI({ apiKey: process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY, name: 'openai' })],
+  plugins: [openAI()],
 });
 
 export const jokeFlow = ai.defineFlow(
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ export const embedFlow = ai.defineFlow(
   },
   async (text) => {
     const embedding = await ai.embed({
-      embedder: 'openai/text-embedding-ada-002',
+      embedder: openAI.embedder('text-embedding-ada-002'),
       content: text,
     });