Ya after some testing, I found the costs can vary wildly too. I do appreciate how the “Assistant” create its own steps, but the downside to this is the economics and the step polling. I was able to get my example running smooth, but there are quite a few steps to get the messages and tool outputs to display on the front end.
Of course this can all be recreated using the original chat completions api where you can better control costs. I didn’t even know they were not charging for charging to Code interpreter yet, so that is another cost to add.
Yes tough to justify…