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  "slug": "openai-api",
  "name": "OpenAI API",
  "url": "https://platform.openai.com",
  "cat": "ai",
  "group": "ai",
  "tagline": "Frontier model provider API",
  "price": "Per token. gpt-5.6-sol $2.50/$15 per M in/out; gpt-5.6-terra $1/$6; gpt-5.6-luna $0.10/$0.60; gpt-5.3-codex $1.75/$14. Batch 50% off, cached input 90% off.",
  "tier": "paid",
  "pick": false,
  "what": "OpenAI's first-party API covering the GPT-5.6 family, Codex models, realtime audio, images and embeddings, with Responses-style agent primitives. A <b>model provider</b> rather than a router; long-context requests and fast mode bill at higher tiers than the headline rate.",
  "why": "The default the whole ecosystem is shaped around — every framework, gateway and tutorial speaks the OpenAI chat-completions dialect. <code>gpt-5.6-luna</code> at $0.10/M input is cheap enough for classification and routing at scale.",
  "warn": "Long-context tiers roughly double per-token rates once you cross the threshold, and fast mode is 2x standard — bills surprise you unless you set a per-model spend cap in the dashboard.",
  "install": "npm i openai (or pip install openai)",
  "category": {
    "key": "ai",
    "name": "Model APIs, routers & observability",
    "desc": "Providers, gateways, inference hosts and eval layers — constantly conflated, listed separately here.",
    "group": "ai",
    "groupName": "Put AI inside it"
  },
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    "status_code": 403,
    "final_url": "https://platform.openai.com/",
    "checked_at": "2026-08-18T23:43:12.623+00:00"
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