o1 models are released, and I don’t see any cheaper pricing right now…
OpenAI has not reduced the price of any particular versioned model since 2022 (when they were open about those efficiency alterations to a named model); OpenAI have just produced downward-trending new version releases within the same series, informed by the model’s state of computation resource consumption at new model introduction.
Nothing on the near horizon says the same AI would be less expensive in terms of datacenter hardware or energy, or that OpenAI’s pricing strategy would diverge from the past. What can be predicted is that you won’t know until they announce availablity.
So, you can get your cheaper version utilizing less resources today – with gpt-4o-mini.