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OpenAI API
OpenAI’s metered developer platform, separate from ChatGPT subscriptions.
Before you buy
Best for: Creators building applications that need programmatic model calls and spending controls.
Price: US/USD example Standard API: Sol US$2 input / US$10 output per million tokens
Included: Model-specific token rates apply; tools, service tiers, storage and other modalities can add charges.
Main limits: ChatGPT subscription allowances are not a general API balance. Task cost includes reasoning, retries and failed outputs; a low token rate alone does not prove value.
What Kingy showed: The October 13 four-model study called GPT-6.1 Sol through its Standard API configuration and scored 94/96 programs under a fixed delivery contract.
Buying details checked 2026-10-22 with region and currency stated above. Historical demonstrations and the broader fact ledger keep their own dates.
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Kingy AI Product Facts
OpenAI API
Current statusUnknown
- Company
- OpenAI
- Primary job
- Not yet reviewed
- Audience
- Not yet reviewed
- API
- Available
- Evidence
- Source-backed; review due
- Latest source check
- October 20, 2026
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Sources and checks
- Coverage
- 12 of 87 tracked fields currently verified
- Sources
- 11
Source-check dates apply to the tracked facts. Editorial updates elsewhere on this page may have a different date.
Plans and pricing units
Not yet structured in this Kingy record.
Where it runs
- Availability
- Not yet reviewed
Developer access
- API access
- Available
Stack and integrations
- Model / provider dependencies
- Not yet reviewed
- Integrations
- Not yet reviewed
Data and regions
- Vendor data-use claim
- Not yet reviewed
- Vendor retention claim
- Not yet reviewed
- Regions
- Not yet reviewed
Launch and latest material update
- Launch
- Not yet reviewed
- Latest material update
- Not yet reviewed
Review history
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Which plan is worth considering
US/USD example Standard API: Sol US$2 input / US$10 output per million tokens. Model-specific token rates apply; tools, service tiers, storage and other modalities can add charges.
Limits that affect the purchase
ChatGPT subscription allowances are not a general API balance. Task cost includes reasoning, retries and failed outputs; a low token rate alone does not prove value. No ongoing free hosted entitlement is established for this route. API billing and account limits are separate from consumer chat or coding subscriptions.
What the existing demonstration shows
The October 13 four-model study called GPT-6.1 Sol through its Standard API configuration and scored 94/96 programs under a fixed delivery contract. The study’s costs were calculated from returned tokens, not attributed invoices. It tested a named model route, not the platform’s entire product range. This describes the dated retained Kingy record, not a new product test. See the retained Kingy demonstration.
Sources and buying-review date
Buying details checked October 22, 2026. Plan research uses current official sources; demonstration descriptions use the retained Kingy record and any captured creator chapters. No new subscription, paid generation or checkout was performed. The buying-review date does not renew every claim in the broader facts ledger.
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Earlier profile and dated source history
The earlier record below keeps its own dates and scope.
The OpenAI API gives developers programmatic access to OpenAI models and tools for text generation, reasoning, coding, vision, audio, image generation, and agentic workflows.
Pricing reviewed September 21, 2026
OpenAI API costs depend on the model, token category, processing mode and tools used. The official pricing table lists these Standard short-context rates per million tokens. Dollar amounts are reproduced as displayed by OpenAI; no currency conversion is applied.
| Model | Input | Cached input | Cache writes | Output |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-6 Astra | $10.00 | $1.00 | $12.50 | $50.00 |
| GPT-5.6 Sol | $4.00 | $0.40 | $5.00 | $20.00 |
| GPT-5.6 Terra | $2.00 | $0.20 | $2.50 | $12.00 |
| GPT-5.6 Luna | $0.20 | $0.02 | $0.25 | $1.20 |
Cache reads and writes have different prices. Long-context rates are higher. For Sol, prompts above 272,000 input tokens trigger twice the input rate and 1.5 times the output rate for the entire request. Its promotional pricing is available at least through November 21, 2026; OpenAI has not established a later rate in these sources.
The Batch API processes eligible asynchronous work within a 24-hour window at a 50% token-price discount. Check model and endpoint support. Flex and Fast have separate rates and availability conditions; the Standard table above does not apply to those modes. Eligible regional-processing endpoints carry a 10% uplift for models released on or after March 5, 2026.
Tools can add charges: non-preview web search costs $10 per 1,000 calls plus search-content tokens, while Responses API file-search calls cost $2.50 per 1,000 and storage costs $0.10 per GB per day after the first free GB. Containers and image, audio and video generation have separate pricing. Check the relevant row before estimating a workflow.
Codex billing documentation distinguishes included ChatGPT-plan usage from API-key usage charged at API rates. This table describes API usage charges, not a monthly ChatGPT or Codex subscription. Free moderation and limited storage allowances do not make general model usage free.
Kingy checked public documentation only. Account eligibility, checkout currency, taxes, negotiated rates and invoice totals were not tested. No paid API requests were run.
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OpenAI retired GPT-5.2 Chat Latest and GPT-5.3 Chat Latest on August 10
OpenAI says gpt-5.2-chat-latest and gpt-5.3-chat-latest will be removed from the API on August 10, 2026, and recommends gpt-5.6-sol as the replacement.
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Advancing voice intelligence with new models in the API
OpenAI released GPT-Realtime-2, GPT-Realtime-Translate, and GPT-Realtime-Whisper for realtime voice reasoning, translation, and streaming transcription in the API.
A high-signal API launch because it moves voice AI toward realtime agents that can reason, translate, transcribe, and act during a conversation.
Introducing GPT-4.1 in the API
OpenAI launched GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano in the API with improvements in coding, instruction following, and long context.
- Launch readiness
- 7.4 / 10
- Demo evidence
- Not scored yet
- Creator-story fit
- Not scored yet
Score definitions and rubric
These are launch-record readiness heuristics, not product ratings.
Launch readiness
How complete and reviewable the launch record is, not the quality of the product.
Inputs and weights: Launch date 15%; qualifying source 10%; what launched 10%; demo 15%; category 10%; audience 10%; editorial assessment 10%; traction evidence 10%; creator or audience fit 10%.
Evidence inputs: Reviewed launch metadata, public source links, demo links, taxonomy, audience, editorial notes, and recorded traction signals.
Demo evidence
Whether the record contains useful, reviewable demonstration evidence; it is not a rating of product output quality.
Inputs and weights: Working demo URL 45%; video walkthrough 25%; clear description of what launched 10%; audience 10%; editorial assessment 10%.
Evidence inputs: Demo and video URLs plus the reviewed launch description, audience, and editorial notes.
Creator-story fit
Whether a launch has enough demonstrable evidence and audience relevance for a useful creator story; it does not predict views or guarantee coverage.
Inputs and weights: Demo evidence 25%; visual creator category 15%; audience 15%; editorial assessment 15%; traction evidence 10%; pricing clarity 10%; API or open-weight evidence 10%.
Evidence inputs: Reviewed demo, category, audience, editorial, traction, pricing, API, and open-weight fields.
- Scale
- 0.0–10.0. A present qualifying input receives its published weight; a missing input receives zero. Scores are rounded to one decimal.
- Assigned by
- Suggested by the deterministic field-completeness helper and assigned or approved by a Kingy editorial reviewer.
- Rubric and check date
- Rubric version P0-2026-08-10. The record’s “Last verified” date is the score check date. Checked: 2026-06-08.
- Confidence and missing data
- Confidence depends on source completeness. “Not scored yet” means no reviewed value; “Needs review” means the value or score set failed validation.
- Freshness
- Recalculate after a material launch, source, demo, pricing, audience, or traction change and during the record freshness review.
- Disputes
- Use “Suggest a correction” on the record and cite the relevant evidence. Commercial relationships cannot buy or alter a score.
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Introducing GPT-4.5
OpenAI released GPT-4.5 as a research preview of its strongest GPT chat model, emphasizing broader knowledge, creativity, and natural collaboration.
- Launch readiness
- 6.5 / 10
- Demo evidence
- Not scored yet
- Creator-story fit
- Not scored yet
Score definitions and rubric
These are launch-record readiness heuristics, not product ratings.
Launch readiness
How complete and reviewable the launch record is, not the quality of the product.
Inputs and weights: Launch date 15%; qualifying source 10%; what launched 10%; demo 15%; category 10%; audience 10%; editorial assessment 10%; traction evidence 10%; creator or audience fit 10%.
Evidence inputs: Reviewed launch metadata, public source links, demo links, taxonomy, audience, editorial notes, and recorded traction signals.
Demo evidence
Whether the record contains useful, reviewable demonstration evidence; it is not a rating of product output quality.
Inputs and weights: Working demo URL 45%; video walkthrough 25%; clear description of what launched 10%; audience 10%; editorial assessment 10%.
Evidence inputs: Demo and video URLs plus the reviewed launch description, audience, and editorial notes.
Creator-story fit
Whether a launch has enough demonstrable evidence and audience relevance for a useful creator story; it does not predict views or guarantee coverage.
Inputs and weights: Demo evidence 25%; visual creator category 15%; audience 15%; editorial assessment 15%; traction evidence 10%; pricing clarity 10%; API or open-weight evidence 10%.
Evidence inputs: Reviewed demo, category, audience, editorial, traction, pricing, API, and open-weight fields.
- Scale
- 0.0–10.0. A present qualifying input receives its published weight; a missing input receives zero. Scores are rounded to one decimal.
- Assigned by
- Suggested by the deterministic field-completeness helper and assigned or approved by a Kingy editorial reviewer.
- Rubric and check date
- Rubric version P0-2026-08-10. The record’s “Last verified” date is the score check date. Checked: 2026-06-08.
- Confidence and missing data
- Confidence depends on source completeness. “Not scored yet” means no reviewed value; “Needs review” means the value or score set failed validation.
- Freshness
- Recalculate after a material launch, source, demo, pricing, audience, or traction change and during the record freshness review.
- Disputes
- Use “Suggest a correction” on the record and cite the relevant evidence. Commercial relationships cannot buy or alter a score.
OpenAI released GPT-4.5 as a research preview of its then-strongest GPT chat model, emphasizing broader knowledge, creativity, and natural collaboration — with a system…