I am trying to estimate the OpenAI API costs for a small chatbot project I am building, so could you explain how token pricing works and give me a rough monthly estimate for about one thousand users?
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I am trying to estimate the OpenAI API costs for a small chatbot project I am building, so could you explain how token pricing works and give me a rough monthly estimate for about one thousand users?
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OpenAI API pricing official models input output token prices GPT-5 GPT-4.1 2026 Google ↗
- Pricing · developers.openai.com
- Pricing · developers.openai.com
- Understanding and counting tokens · help.openai.com