Help me understand the web tool cost!

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Hello,

I’m trying to understand how the web tool cost is computed. I made 58 chat competions calls and that generated 119 web searches (according to the OpenAI developer platform). I don’t understand why it wouldn’t be 1:1 and is there a way to limit this? Then for those 119 web requests it charged me $1.19 - essentially 1c per web request. My understanding was that the cost was the output from the web search became an input token cost but it is charging for both the tool and the input tokens.

Any help here would be greatly appreciated!!!

Thanks,

Sharad

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Yes, you are charged for both (see pricing for details).

You can limit it using the max_tool_calls parameter, but it might affect the quality of the response.

source - this one is for deep research but the concept is the same

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