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Can you explain the tiered pricing structure for the OpenAI API and how to estimate token consumption costs for a high-volume customer support chatbot?

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Can you explain the tiered pricing structure for the OpenAI API and how to estimate token consumption costs for a high-volume customer support chatbot?
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OpenAI API pricing per million input output tokens official pricing 2026Google ↗
OBSERVEDOther / navigational
OpenAI API usage tiers rate limits usage tiers official documentationGoogle ↗
OBSERVEDComparison

Badge and edge weight = share of passes that produced the query. Hover a query for its intent and routing format.

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Google's semantic query class for every sub-query: what kind of answer each search is after, simulated vs real.

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Classes come from the query-classifier (a local Laya model). 2 of 2 calls are low-confidence (under 50%) — hover a query in the table to see its confidence.

Searches and sources

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OpenAI API pricing per million input output tokens official pricing 2026 Google ↗
OpenAI API usage tiers rate limits usage tiers official documentation Google ↗
  1. Rate limits · developers.openai.com
  2. Troubleshooting API usage and spend limits · help.openai.com
  3. Troubleshooting API rate limits and 429 errors · help.openai.com
  4. Pricing · developers.openai.com
  5. Understanding and counting tokens · help.openai.com

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OpenAI API pricing per million input output tokens official pricing 2026
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OpenAI API usage tiers rate limits usage tiers official documentation
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