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A ChatGPT subscription doesn’t include API usage. Instead:

How can I create an openai based chatbot?

The API is pay-per-use. Besides generating an API key in a project in the platform.openai.com site for your account and organization, you also need to prepay, purchasing credits to fund your usage of the API. Pricing by model, based on the amount of language data in and out: https://platform.openai.com/docs/pricing You can use the Chat Completions API endpoint to send a message to the AI model, and get a response. A recommended starting point would be gpt-4o-mini model for experimentation. Yo…