I know that OpenAI limits the model availability based on usage spending but I’m not sure that I understand the reasoning for it.
It seems like you have to be between tier 3-5 to access an O3-mini assistant for example. In my case this is my personal OpenAI account and I work with AI most days at work at the moment (not on the same account). For me to POC or deliver projects I need access to the same models personally that I get professionally. This pattern also hinders very small one-man shops that want to leverage your API for their businesses.
I really like using OpenAI but I can’t see why I’d want to stick with using OpenAI over Genkit, Vertex, Gemini, etc if they provide superior models (to gpt-4o that I have access to in the API).
Anyone know if there’s plans to change this approach or is this just it?