TL;DR How can I calculate the cost, in tokens, of a specific request made to the OpenAI API? Hi all. I’ve just used the OpenAI Playground (model: gpt-3.5-turbo) to submit a user message and obtain an assistant message in reply. Is it possible to calculate the actual cost of this, in terms of tok…

How to calculate the cost of a specific request made to the web API (and its reply), in tokens?

cagross June 21, 2023, 2:27pm 12

Great thanks to both. For now, I’ll try to use the usage page per the suggestion by @sps.

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