Hi
In the same way access to chatgpt is free (to older models), is the api free as well? If not, do you know if there are any plans to make it free at some point?
Thanks
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Welcome to the forum!
No.
I am not an OpenAI employee, from my viewpoint the answer will always be no. OpenAI does give free credits from time to time but these credits are typically to encourage work in areas OpenAI needs information about, not for request from a user for work they are pursing or just desiring free API access.
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Whisper is open source and this might be of interest Sam Altman Says OpenAI Will Release an ‘Open Weight’ AI Model This Summer | WIRED.
While this is not API you could run this locally on your own machine.
I believe they also released GPT-2? GitHub - openai/gpt-2: Code for the paper "Language Models are Unsupervised Multitask Learners"
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i cant see the difference between using chatgpt and using the api, if it has a rate limit or is allowed to older models, as google does with gemini, thats a good idea for me
API you pay by the token… ChatGPT has fixed limits for different models
With a ChatGPT Plus, Team or Enterprise account, you have access to 100 messages a week with o3, 300 messages a day with o4-mini, and 100 messages a day with o4-mini-high.
With API you pay by the token (These prices are per 1,000,000 tokens)
Good News! Extended: Free tokens on traffic shared with OpenAI.
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