Can someone explain the hidden costs of the OpenAI API usage tiers so I can budget properly for rolling out our new AI-powered internal search tool?
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Fan-out diagram
The searches the AI actually ran for this prompt.
SEED QUERY
Can someone explain the hidden costs of the OpenAI API usage tiers so I can budget properly for rolling out our new AI-powered internal search tool?
3 real searches · 1 real-search pass
site:openai.com/api/pricing API pricing input output cached tokens embeddings tools storage 2026Google ↗
OBSERVEDOther / navigational
site:platform.openai.com/docs/guides/rate-limits usage tiers rate limits billing APIGoogle ↗
OBSERVEDOther / navigational
site:openai.com enterprise privacy API data retention pricing batch API file search vector storesGoogle ↗
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 (3)
Classes come from the query-classifier (a local Laya model).
Searches and sources
ChatGPT3 real searches · gpt-6
site:openai.com/api/pricing API pricing input output cached tokens embeddings tools storage 2026 Google ↗
site:platform.openai.com/docs/guides/rate-limits usage tiers rate limits billing API Google ↗
site:openai.com enterprise privacy API data retention pricing batch API file search vector stores Google ↗
- Rate limits · developers.openai.com
- Troubleshooting API usage and spend limits · help.openai.com
- Understanding and counting tokens · help.openai.com
- text-embedding-3-large Model · developers.openai.com
- Pricing · developers.openai.com
- Pricing · developers.openai.com
- Retrieval · developers.openai.com
- File search · developers.openai.com
- Spend limits · developers.openai.com
- Setting up and managing prepaid API billing · help.openai.com
Queries
3 queries · click a column to sort
| Query / type | Search | Intent | Query class | Routing format | Cluster | Freq ↓ | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
site:openai.com/api/pricing API pricing input output cached tokens embeddings tools storage 2026 OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | Other / navigational | — | — | 1x of 1 | |
site:platform.openai.com/docs/guides/rate-limits usage tiers rate limits billing API OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | Other / navigational | — | — | 1x of 1 | |
site:openai.com enterprise privacy API data retention pricing batch API file search vector stores OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | Other / navigational | — | — | 1x of 1 |