Assistants API token usage and pricing breakdown clarification

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I noticed some weird stuff on the GPT-3.5-turbo model where messages were re-generated in a loop several times. Here is my issue / bug report. Maybe you want to check your usage and see if you have the same issue:

Assistants API (gpt-3.5-turbo-16k) usage exceeds limit due to message loop

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…