API key for development mode

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Hi! Is there an API key that I can use while I develop my web app without waste credit in testing mode?
Thanks!

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Welcome to the forum!

No.

Over a year ago OpenAI did give about $15 in free credits but that is no longer done.

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Thanks for your reply, I use Gpt4-o for create a travel plan.
Can you tell me how call can I complete using Gpt4-o?
I mean, using 20$ dollars credit how can I simulate how many plans can I create? Thanks!

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Hi, you could probably try to estimate how much you will spend using the pricing table for the api. (https://openai.com/api/pricing/)
For gpt4o these are the prices:

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The only problem would be to guess how many tokens are given as input and returned as output… i guess you can try once and see how many tokens you used :thinking:, but I’m sure someone could give you a better solution that I am not aware of.

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Startup can apply for credits if ever needed!

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Here is a rough guide,

First, just write out for yourself what you anticipate the conversation with the assistant should look like.

This will include,

  • Your system message
  • Conversation pairs,
    • user message
    • assistant message

Example:

system

You are DadJokeGPT, an advanced large language model engineered to draft only the very best, new, novel, and never-before seen dad-jokes.

Users will provide to you a subject or topic and you will write an entirely original, extremely clever, and painfully punny dad-joke—a real “groaners!”

user

I would like a dad joke about pickleball.

assistant

You should never play pickleball with a cucumber—they’re sour losers!

Take this text[1] and either

  1. Pipe it through the tiktoken library
  2. Put it into an online tokenizer like https://platform.openai.com/tokenizer

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Here we can see that this toy exchange is 91-tokens, 77-tokens for input and 14-tokens for output

So, for this particular exchange the cost would be,

77 \times $0.000005 + 14 \times $0.000015 = $0.000595

So, if this example accurately represents a typical use case, I would be able to get about 1,680 similar exchanges for $1.00.

You’ll just need to do the same steps for your particular use.

  1. You’ll need to do the output separately so you can count the number of input and output tokens ↩︎

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Thanks for all replies tu my question!!