# Assistants API Pricing and Token Usage **URL:** https://community.openai.com/t/assistants-api-pricing-and-token-usage/475526 **Category:** API **Tags:** api, pricing **Created:** [November 6, 2023, 7:51pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/assistants-api-pricing-and-token-usage/475526 "2023-11-06T19:51:20Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 65
### Author: ![adaptiv](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/adaptiv/32/248872_2.png) [@adaptiv](https://community.openai.com/u/adaptiv) #### Post date: [November 22, 2023, 12:30am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/assistants-api-pricing-and-token-usage/475526/65 "2023-11-22T00:30:28Z")
Actually thats exactly what happens and its paifully expensive. See my post from a few minutes ago: > [@Assistants API (gpt-3.5-turbo-16k) usage exceeds limit due to message loop](https://community.openai.com/t/assistants-api-gpt-3-5-turbo-16k-usage-exceeds-limit-due-to-message-loop/518214): > > I am seeing a huge issue with a very basic implementation of the Assitant API on the gpt-3.5-turbo model. Background-Information to our use case: We try to analyse documents and extract information. For this, we created one assistant with instructions on what to do with the document (document is given over user message). For every document (roughly 6000 in total) we do the following: Create a thread on the assistant which we created over the playground Add the “user” message to the thread. T… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.openai.com/t/assistants-api-pricing-and-token-usage/475526)._