My team is worried about runaway OpenAI API costs on our new chatbot feature, what is the best strategy to implement hard usage limits today?
Download run
Fan-out diagram
The searches the AI actually ran for this prompt.
SEED QUERY
My team is worried about runaway OpenAI API costs on our new chatbot feature, what is the best strategy to implement hard usage limits today?
1 real search · 1 real-search pass
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OBSERVEDOther / navigational
Badge and edge weight = share of passes that produced the query. Hover a query for its intent and routing format.
Query classes
Google's semantic query class for every sub-query: what kind of answer each search is after, simulated vs real.
ChatGPT real searches (1)
Classes come from the query-classifier (a local Laya model).
Searches and sources
ChatGPT1 real searches · gpt-6
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- OpenAI API pricing page · platform.openai.com
- Pricing · platform.openai.com