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Can you break down the current OpenAI API pricing tiers and help me figure out which one makes financial sense for a small team processing about two million tokens a month?

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Can you break down the current OpenAI API pricing tiers and help me figure out which one makes financial sense for a small team processing about two million tokens a month?
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OpenAI API pricing 2026 official models input output cached tokens pricing tiers Google ↗
  1. Pricing · developers.openai.com
  2. Pricing · developers.openai.com
  3. Rate limits · developers.openai.com
  4. Troubleshooting API usage and spend limits · help.openai.com
  5. Prompt caching · developers.openai.com
  6. Pricing · developers.openai.com

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