A verdict here is not a fixed property of the vendor. A one-off pricing event demotes a vendor while its recorded date falls in the last 180 days and then lapses on its own, with nothing about the vendor having changed; a standing condition — a free tier withdrawn and not restored, a product retired — does not lapse with time. This one rests on a standing condition, so it does not lapse.
Limits, pricing history, and 27 alternatives. Catalogue date September 2026. Last updated 2026-11-11.
Free Tier Details
AI API platform. One model is priced Free in OpenAI's own table: the moderation model omni-moderation-latest. No GPT model is priced free. GPT prices per 1M tokens (Standard, short context): gpt-6-astra $10.00/$50.00; gpt-6.1-sol $2.00/$10.00; gpt-6.1-terra $1.00/$5.00; gpt-6-sol $2.00/$10.00; gpt-6-luna $0.10/$0.50; gpt-5.6-sol $4.00/$20.00; gpt-5.6-terra $2.00/$12.00; gpt-5.6-luna $0.20/$1.20. OpenAI's promotional pricing for gpt-5.6-sol is available until November 30, 2026. Batch and Flex processing halve these prices. gpt-6-astra cached input $1.00 per 1M tokens, against $10.00 uncached. gpt-6.1-sol cached input $0.10 per 1M tokens, against $2.00 uncached. gpt-6.1-terra cached input $0.05 per 1M tokens, against $1.00 uncached. gpt-6-luna cached input $0.01 per 1M tokens, against $0.10 uncached. Prompt caching is on by default. Cache writes cost 1.25× the input price for 30 minutes or 2.5× for 12 hours. Embeddings from $0.02 per 1M tokens. Three further free amounts are sub-quotas inside paid tools: 1 GB of File search storage (then $0.10/GB per day), 1 GB per account per month of ChatKit upload storage, and search content tokens from the web search preview tool on non-reasoning models. Since 2026-10-28, OpenAI's API docs say: "Eligible ChatGPT Pro and Business subscriptions can claim free API credits as part of their subscription benefits." Pro's $100, $200 and $500 tiers get $100, $200 and $500 in API credits a month. Business gets $20 per paid Standard seat and $100 per paid Premium seat, pooled and capped at $500 per workspace a month.
We read that on 2026-11-11 from https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing, and our check recorded: the page names OpenAI as "openai" and states "$10.00" and "$50.00" and "$1.00" and "$2.00". A source check reads the cited page for the service's name and a price; the limits above are from our own record.
- OpenAI does not use data sent to the API to train its models unless you opt in to share data. (From developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/your-data, read 2026-10-06.)
- Abuse monitoring logs may contain prompts and responses and are kept for up to 30 days by default. (From developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/your-data, read 2026-10-06.)
- New API accounts use prepaid billing. Purchased credits expire after 1 year and are non-refundable unless required by law, contract, or an approved exception. (From help.openai.com/en/articles/8264644-how-can-i-set-up-prepaid-billing, read 2026-10-06.)
- Without ChatGPT subscriber credits, OpenAI's API needs a payment method and a credit purchase of at least $5 before you use it. (From help.openai.com/en/articles/8264644-setting-up-and-managing-prepaid-api-billing, read 2026-10-22.)
- OpenAI's API credits for ChatGPT subscribers need an active, paid ChatGPT Pro or Business subscription at least seven days old. The owner of the subscription or Business workspace links it to one API organization they own, using the same email. ChatGPT Plus, Go, Free and Enterprise plans, free trials and complimentary subscriptions are not eligible. No API payment method is needed while the credits last. Unused credits expire at the end of the billing cycle and do not roll over. They do not cover Codex used with an API key. (From developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/chatgpt-api-credits, read 2026-10-29.)
- OpenAI's API has three paid usage tiers, Build, Launch and Grow, which replaced five tiers on 2026-10-06. Build is from $5 to under $100 in total credit purchases, Launch from $100 to under $500, and Grow from $500. Monthly usage limits are Build $500, Launch $5,000, Grow $200,000. Your tier upgrades automatically as total credit purchases reach each threshold. Higher tiers generally provide higher rate limits. (From developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/rate-limits, read 2026-11-12.)
Pricing Change History (21 recorded)
The OpenAI API keeps running. The gpt-5.3-codex, gpt-5.1 and gpt-5.4-nano models can be called until April 1, 2027. OpenAI's replacements: gpt-6-sol for gpt-5.3-codex and gpt-5.1; gpt-6-luna for gpt-5.4-nano.
Source ↗Before: gpt-5.3-codex, gpt-5.1 and gpt-5.4-nano were callable in the OpenAI API at pay-as-you-go rates.
After: OpenAI's deprecations page (notice of 2026-10-01) lists April 1, 2027 as the date the three models are removed from the API.
The OpenAI API keeps running. The whisper-1, gpt-4o-transcribe, gpt-4o-mini-transcribe and gpt-4o-transcribe-diarize models can be called until February 26, 2027. OpenAI's substitute for each is gpt-live-transcribe or gpt-transcribe. The /v1/audio/translations endpoint also shuts down on February 26, 2027. OpenAI's replacement is /v1/realtime/translations.
Source ↗Before: whisper-1, gpt-4o-transcribe, gpt-4o-mini-transcribe and gpt-4o-transcribe-diarize were callable in the OpenAI API at pay-as-you-go rates.
After: OpenAI's deprecations page (notice of 2026-08-26) lists February 26, 2027 as the date the four models are removed from the API, and as the shutdown date of the /v1/audio/translations endpoint, with /v1/realtime/translations as its replacement (read 2026-11-13).
The OpenAI API keeps running. The gpt-image-2 model and its gpt-image-2-2026-04-21 snapshot can be called until February 10, 2027, when OpenAI removes them from the API. OpenAI names gpt-image-2.6-sunburst or gpt-image-2.6-flare as the replacement.
Source ↗Before: gpt-image-2 (snapshot gpt-image-2-2026-04-21) was callable in the OpenAI API at pay-as-you-go rates, with no shutdown date.
After: OpenAI's deprecations page (notice of 2026-11-10) gives February 10, 2027 as the date gpt-image-2 and gpt-image-2-2026-04-21 are removed from the API. They can be called until then.
The OpenAI API keeps running. The gpt-5.5-cyber-preview model can be called until February 1, 2027, when OpenAI removes it from the API. OpenAI tells users to move to the most capable cyber model available to them.
Source ↗Before: gpt-5.5-cyber-preview was callable in the OpenAI API, with no shutdown date.
After: OpenAI's deprecations page (notice of 2026-11-05) gives February 1, 2027 as the date gpt-5.5-cyber-preview is removed from the API: "Migrate to the most capable cyber model available to you before the shutdown date."
The OpenAI API keeps running. The gpt-realtime, gpt-4o-realtime, gpt-realtime-mini, gpt-4o-mini-realtime, gpt-audio, gpt-4o-audio, gpt-audio-mini, gpt-4o-mini-audio and gpt-4o-mini-transcribe-2025-03-20 models can be called until January 20, 2027. OpenAI's substitutes: gpt-realtime-2.1 for gpt-realtime and gpt-4o-realtime; gpt-realtime-2.1-mini for gpt-realtime-mini and gpt-4o-mini-realtime; gpt-audio-1.5 for gpt-audio, gpt-4o-audio, gpt-audio-mini and gpt-4o-mini-audio; gpt-4o-mini-transcribe-2025-12-15 for gpt-4o-mini-transcribe-2025-03-20.
Source ↗Before: gpt-realtime, gpt-4o-realtime, gpt-realtime-mini, gpt-4o-mini-realtime, gpt-audio, gpt-4o-audio, gpt-audio-mini, gpt-4o-mini-audio and gpt-4o-mini-transcribe-2025-03-20 were callable in the OpenAI API at pay-as-you-go rates.
After: OpenAI's deprecations page (notice of 2026-07-20) lists January 20, 2027 as the date these model families and snapshots are removed from the API.
The OpenAI API keeps running. The gpt-4o (gpt-4o-2024-08-06 and gpt-4o-2024-11-20), gpt-4o-mini, gpt-4.1 and gpt-4.1-mini models, with their fine-tuned versions, can be called until January 14, 2027, when OpenAI shuts down their access. OpenAI names gpt-6-luna as the replacement for all four.
Source ↗Before: gpt-4o (gpt-4o-2024-08-06 and gpt-4o-2024-11-20), gpt-4o-mini, gpt-4.1 and gpt-4.1-mini were callable in the OpenAI API at pay-as-you-go rates.
After: OpenAI's deprecations page gives January 14, 2027 as the shutdown date. The models can be called until then.
The OpenAI API keeps running. The tts-1, tts-1-hd, gpt-4o-mini-tts-2025-03-20 and gpt-4o-mini-tts-2025-12-15 models can be called until January 6, 2027. OpenAI's replacement for each: gpt-realtime-2.1-mini.
Source ↗Before: tts-1, tts-1-hd, gpt-4o-mini-tts-2025-03-20 and gpt-4o-mini-tts-2025-12-15 were callable in the OpenAI API at pay-as-you-go rates.
After: OpenAI's deprecations page (notice of 2026-10-01) lists January 6, 2027 as the date the four text-to-speech models are removed from the API.
The OpenAI API keeps running. From January 6, 2027, no organization can create new fine-tuning jobs on OpenAI's self-serve fine-tuning platform. Since May 7, 2026, organizations that never ran fine-tuning cannot create jobs. Since July 2, 2026, organizations that have not run inference on a fine-tuned model in the past 60 days cannot either. Fine-tuned models keep serving inference until their base model is deprecated.
Source ↗Before: Any OpenAI API organization could create fine-tuning jobs on OpenAI's self-serve fine-tuning platform.
After: OpenAI's deprecations page (read 2026-11-13) lists "Self-serve fine-tuning job creation" as "Restricted access" with a shutdown date of Jan 6, 2027 (notice of May 7, 2026). Its fine-tuning timeline: "Creating fine-tuning jobs or training is not available to organizations that have not previously run fine-tuning." (May 7, 2026) "Creating fine-tuning jobs is no longer available to organizations that have not run inference on a fine-tuned model in the past 60 days." (July 2, 2026) "Active existing customers will no longer be able to create new fine-tuning jobs on this date. Inference on fine-tuned models will be disabled only when the underlying base model is deprecated." (Jan 6, 2027)
The OpenAI API keeps running. gpt-5-2025-08-07 is available until December 11, 2026, replaced by gpt-5.6-sol. gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 is available until December 11, 2026, replaced by gpt-5.6-terra. gpt-5-nano-2025-08-07 is available until December 11, 2026, replaced by gpt-5.6-luna. gpt-5-pro-2025-10-06 is available until December 11, 2026, replaced by gpt-5.6-sol with reasoning.mode: pro. o3-2025-04-16 is available until December 11, 2026, replaced by gpt-5.6-sol. o3-pro-2025-06-10 is available until December 11, 2026, replaced by gpt-5.6-sol with reasoning.mode: pro.
Source ↗Before: The gpt-5-2025-08-07, gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07, gpt-5-nano-2025-08-07, gpt-5-pro-2025-10-06, o3-2025-04-16 and o3-pro-2025-06-10 snapshots were callable in the OpenAI API at pay-as-you-go rates.
After: OpenAI's deprecations page (notice of 2026-06-11) lists December 11, 2026 as the date the six snapshots are removed from the API.
The OpenAI API keeps running. The gpt-image-1-mini, gpt-image-1.5 and chatgpt-image-latest models can be called until December 1, 2026. OpenAI's substitutes are gpt-image-2.6-sunburst or gpt-image-2.6-flare.
Source ↗Before: gpt-image-1-mini, gpt-image-1.5 and chatgpt-image-latest were callable in the OpenAI API at pay-as-you-go rates.
After: OpenAI's deprecations page (notice of 2026-06-02) lists December 1, 2026 as the date the three models are removed from the API. Read on 2026-11-06, its recommended replacement for each is gpt-image-2.6-sunburst or gpt-image-2.6-flare.
The OpenAI API keeps running. Agent Builder, the Evals platform and the v1/prompts API can be used until November 30, 2026. Existing evals become read-only on October 31, 2026. ChatKit remains available. Migrate from Agent Builder to the Agents SDK or ChatGPT Workspace Agents. Migrate from Evals to Promptfoo. Move reusable prompt content into application code.
Source ↗Before: Agent Builder, the Evals platform (dashboard and API) and reusable prompt objects (the v1/prompts API) were available on the OpenAI platform.
After: OpenAI's deprecations page (notices of 2026-06-03) lists November 30, 2026 as the date Agent Builder, the Evals dashboard and API, and the v1/prompts API and reusable prompt objects shut down, with existing evals read-only from October 31, 2026.
The OpenAI API keeps running. The gpt-3.5-turbo, gpt-4, gpt-4-turbo, gpt-4-1106-preview, gpt-4.1-nano, gpt-4o-2024-05-13, gpt-image-1, o1, o1-pro, o3-mini and o4-mini models, with their fine-tuned versions, can be called until October 23, 2026, when OpenAI shuts down their access. OpenAI names a substitute for each model: gpt-3.5-turbo to gpt-5.6-terra; gpt-4, gpt-4-turbo, gpt-4-1106-preview and gpt-4o-2024-05-13 to gpt-5.6-sol; gpt-4.1-nano to gpt-5.6-luna; gpt-image-1 to gpt-image-2.5-sunburst or gpt-image-2.5-flare; o1 to gpt-5.6-sol; o1-pro to gpt-5.6-sol with reasoning.mode: pro; o3-mini to gpt-5.6-sol; o4-mini to gpt-5.6-terra.
Source ↗Before: The models were callable in the OpenAI API at pay-as-you-go rates.
After: OpenAI's deprecations page gives October 23, 2026 as the shutdown date. The models can be called until then.
gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct, babbage-002, davinci-002 and gpt-3.5-turbo-1106 shut down in the OpenAI API on September 28, 2026. OpenAI names gpt-5.6-terra as the replacement.
Source ↗Before: The four models were callable in the OpenAI API at pay-as-you-go rates.
After: OpenAI's deprecations page lists September 28, 2026 as the date after which the four models are no longer accessible.
Data correction - The Realtime API beta was removed on 2026-05-12, not 2026-05-07, which is when the gpt-4o-realtime-preview models were removed.
Source ↗Before: Recorded as product_deprecated dated 2026-05-07
After: product_deprecated dated 2026-05-12 from OpenAI's deprecations page
Data correction - OpenAI's $5 free trial credit for new API accounts ended between 2024-03-13 and 2024-03-20, not on 2025-06-01. Our record also bundled earlier cuts from 2023 (the credit fell from $18 to $5, and the free trial's rate limit from 20 to 3 requests a minute), which are not recorded separately.
Source ↗Before: Recorded 2026-03-11 as limits_reduced dated 2025-06-01, describing trial credits of $5 to $18 as ended and the Free tier as limited to one older chat model
After: free_tier_removed dated 2024-03-20 ($5 credit for new accounts ended)
Sora 2 video generation in the OpenAI API shut down on September 24, 2026: OpenAI removed the Videos API and the sora-2 and sora-2-pro models, and names no replacement.
Source ↗Before: The OpenAI API offered Sora 2 and Sora 2 Pro video generation through the Videos API, billed per second of video.
After: The Videos API and the Sora 2 models are no longer available in the OpenAI API.
Assistants API deprecated, full shutdown August 26, 2026. Developers must migrate to Responses API + Conversations API
Source ↗Before: Assistants API available with code interpreter, file search, function calling, and Threads for conversation management
After: Deprecated. Full shutdown Aug 26, 2026. Migration required: Assistants → Prompts + Responses API, Threads → Conversations API. No automated migration tool provided
dall-e-2 and dall-e-3 were removed from the OpenAI API on 2026-05-12. OpenAI names gpt-image-2, gpt-image-1 or gpt-image-1-mini as substitutes, and gpt-image-1 itself shuts down on 2026-10-23.
Source ↗Before: DALL-E 3 API: $0.040-$0.120/image (1024x1024), paid via API credits
After: dall-e-2 and dall-e-3 removed from the API. OpenAI lists gpt-image-2, gpt-image-1 or gpt-image-1-mini as substitutes.
The Realtime API beta was removed on 2026-05-12; OpenAI's generally available Realtime API replaces it.
Source ↗Before: Realtime API beta: required OpenAI-Beta: realtime=v1 header, single session type, beta event names
After: "The Realtime API Beta was deprecated and removed from the API on May 12, 2026" (OpenAI deprecations page, read 2026-09-27)
Retracted — this record was our error (2026-09-27). Retracted 2026-09-27: this record describes ads in ChatGPT's Free and Go consumer plans. It is filed under OpenAI's API platform, whose free terms did not change on 2026-02-09, and we list no ChatGPT plan.
Source ↗
Between 2024-03-13 and 2024-03-20, OpenAI stopped giving new API accounts the $5 free trial credit, which could be used during an account's first 3 months. New accounts now have to buy prepaid credits, $5 minimum, to use any paid model.
Source ↗Before: "To explore and experiment with the API, all new users get free $5 worth of free tokens. These tokens expire after 3 months." (OpenAI help center, captured 2024-03-13)
After: No free credit for new accounts. "Most API users will need to pre-purchase credits to use the API and Playground"; "The minimum purchase is $5." (OpenAI help center, captured 2024-02-25). New accounts reported receiving no credit from 2024-03-20, and the help-center text on trial credits was gone by 2024-04-09.
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Alternatives in AI / ML
How OpenAI compares against every one of the 27 we list, not against a selection of them. A surface with room for every member of a tied set may rotate their order. A surface with room for only some of them names none of them, because which ones it named would be the claim, and a claim seeded on the date is not the one we serve tomorrow. How we decide this.
| Service |
Free Tier |
Stability |
| OpenAI |
Pay-as-you-go |
not_a_free_offer |
| Keywords AI |
Free Rebranded to Respan; keywordsai.co redirects to respan.ai. Free plan: full platform, 100k logs, 1k scores, 5 datasets, 2 evaluators, 5 prompts. |
source unconfirmed |
| Groq |
Free Fast LLM inference on Groq's LPU hardware. Free plan: gpt-oss-20b, gpt-oss-120b and Qwen3.8 27B, each at 30 requests a minute, 1,000 requests and 200,000 tokens a day, plus Whisper speech-to-text at 2,000 requests a day. |
caution |
| Cohere |
Free AI model API for Command chat models, Embed, Rerank, Transcribe and Parse. Every account starts with a Trial API key: calls made with it are free and limited to 1,000 API calls a month. |
stable |
| Cloudflare Workers AI |
Free Workers AI runs AI models on Cloudflare's global network. Every account gets 10,000 Neurons per day at no charge, reset daily at 00:00 UTC; on the Workers Free plan, requests beyond that fail until the reset. |
caution |
| Maxim AI |
Free Simulate, evaluate, and observe your AI agents — The 'OSS' tier is free forever for developers, small teams, and self-managed deployments. It includes features like a drop-in replacement, OTel compatibility, metrics & traces, built-in observability, budget management, and more. |
stable |
| OpenRouter |
Free AI model router. Free plan: 50 requests a day, no BYOK. |
stable |
| Pollinations.AI |
Free Keyless Classic API: one image model and GPT-OSS 20B text, free, no sign-up, rate-limited per IP. Every other model needs an API key and Pollen, and free Pollen comes only from quests. |
caution |
| Google Gemini API |
Free (Reduced) Free tier: Gemini 4 Hydrogen, Gemini 3.8 Flash, 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, 3.1 Flash-Lite, Gemini 3 Flash Preview, Gemini Embedding 2 and Gemma 4 are free of charge. Also free of charge are Gemini 3.8 Live (real-time voice), Gemini 3.5 Live Translate (translation), Gemini 3.5 Transcribe… |
stable |
| Hugging Face |
Free ML model hub. Since 2026-10-07, free accounts get no included Inference Providers credits: free users buy credits or upgrade to PRO to call Inference Providers, which serves 200+ models. |
caution |
| Lumenfall.ai |
Free AI media gateway: one OpenAI-compatible API to image and video generation models from several providers, billed at each provider's price with no markup, platform fee or subscription. One model, FLUX.1 [schnell] FP8, is listed free per image ("Free to try", served through Fireworks AI). |
stable |
| LLM7.io |
Free LLM inference gateway. With a free token from dash.llm7.io: 1 request a second, 60 a minute, 250 an hour and 100,000 tokens per 24 hours, counting input and output tokens; LLM7 says free quotas may be reduced without notice. |
caution |
| NVIDIA NIM |
Free Free inference endpoints on build.nvidia.com: models marked Free Endpoint, including DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM 5.3 Flash, gpt-oss-20b, Gemma 4 31B and NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra, can be called at no cost. Their model IDs are deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4.1-flash, z-ai/glm-5.3-flash, openai/gpt-oss-20b,… |
stable |
| Hetzner Inference API |
Free Hetzner's experimental Inference API: an OpenAI-compatible API for open-weight models, free while it stays experimental. Base URL: https://inference.hetzner.com/api/v1. |
stable |
| Portkey |
Free Control panel for Gen AI apps featuring an observability suite & an AI gateway. Send & log up to 10,000 requests for free every month. |
unrated |
| SiliconFlow |
Free Pay-as-you-go model inference. siliconflow.cn, run by a Beijing company, lists these models at no charge: the chat models Qwen3-8B, Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct (Free), Qwen3.5-4B, GLM-4-9B-0414, GLM-Z1-9B-0414, DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B (Free) and Xing4.0-29B; the translation model Hunyuan-MT-7B; the OCR… |
unrated |
| Zhipu AI |
Free China-based GLM model API. The price list marks these models free: GLM-4.7-Flash, GLM-4-Flash-250414 and GLM-Z1-Flash (text); GLM-4.6V-Flash, GLM-4V-Flash and GLM-4.1V-Thinking-Flash (vision); CogView-3-Flash (image); CogVideoX-Flash (video). |
source unconfirmed |
| Fireworks AI |
Free Credits Inference platform for open models, with serverless per-token pricing and on-demand GPU deployments billed per GPU second. Fireworks offers $1 in free credits to get started. |
unrated |
| Baseten |
Basic (Free Credits) ML model deployment platform. New workspaces receive credits for testing and deployment; Baseten does not state the amount. |
unrated |
| Cerebras |
Trial Ultra-fast LLM inference API — no permanent free tier. New accounts get $5 in free credits after adding a verified payment method, expiring 30 days after they are granted. |
risky |
| xAI |
Pay-as-you-go Grok API, pay as you go: sign up at console.x.ai, then load it with credits. grok-4.7 $2.00/$6.00 (per 1M tokens, under 200k prompt tokens). |
unrated |
| Anthropic API |
Pay-as-you-go Claude API with usage-based pricing per million tokens (input/output). Claude Fable 5.2 $8/$40. |
unrated |
| DeepSeek API |
Pay-as-you-go Pay-as-you-go LLM API with no free tier, billed from a prepaid balance. DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (deepseek-flash): $0.30/M input, $1.20/M output at peak. |
unrated |
| GitHub Models |
Retired GitHub retired GitHub Models on 2026-07-30, so there is no free tier. GitHub's own documentation states "GitHub Models has been retired." |
source unconfirmed |
| Ollama Cloud |
Pay-as-you-go Cloud-hosted Ollama for running open-source LLMs. Between October 26 and 27, 2026, Ollama replaced its Free plan, which included starter usage credits, with a $0 Pay as you go plan. |
unrated |
| Mistral AI |
Pay-as-you-go Since about 2026-11-05, Mistral's Free plan covers Vibe and Studio and does not include API access. Creating API keys and calling the API require billing activation and pay-as-you-go with prepaid credits. |
unrated |
| Together AI |
Pay-as-you-go Inference API for open-source models, billed per token. Together AI does not currently offer free trials; access requires a minimum $15 credit purchase for an organization's first purchase ($5 for later purchases), and the platform is fully prepaid. |
unrated |
| MiniMax |
Pay-as-you-go MiniMax sells API access pay-as-you-go on platform.minimax.io. Its pricing pages list no free API allowance; one docs page mentions a free quota for new pay-as-you-go users but gives no amount. |
unrated |
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- date
- 2026-11-14
- query_key
- alternatives:AI / ML:OpenAI
- seed
- 224906e7f57e3bdd2497cb42ed551b49b251415dd9b424f80d853baa2566041b
- tie_count
- 13
Frequently Asked Questions
Is OpenAI free?
Tier "Pay-as-you-go" is usage-billed from the first request. AI API platform. One model is priced Free in OpenAI's own table: the moderation model omni-moderation-latest. No GPT model is priced free. GPT prices per 1M tokens (Standard, short context): gpt-6-ast...
Is OpenAI's free tier good for production?
Tier "Pay-as-you-go" is usage-billed from the first request. There is no free tier here to run in production.
What changed in OpenAI's pricing?
OpenAI has had 18 recorded pricing changes. Most recently: The OpenAI API keeps running. The gpt-3.5-turbo, gpt-4, gpt-4-turbo, gpt-4-1106-preview, gpt-4.1-nano, gpt-4o-2024-05-13, gpt-image-1, o1, o1-pro, o3-mini and o4-mini models, with their fine-tuned versions, can be called until October 23, 2026, when OpenAI shuts down their access. OpenAI names a substitute for each model: gpt-3.5-turbo to gpt-5.6-terra; gpt-4, gpt-4-turbo, gpt-4-1106-preview and gpt-4o-2024-05-13 to gpt-5.6-sol; gpt-4.1-nano to gpt-5.6-luna; gpt-image-1 to gpt-image-2.5-sunburst or gpt-image-2.5-flare; o1 to gpt-5.6-sol; o1-pro to gpt-5.6-sol with reasoning.mode: pro; o3-mini to gpt-5.6-sol; o4-mini to gpt-5.6-terra. Source: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/deprecations (2026-10-23).
What are the best free alternatives to OpenAI?
We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 27 free alternatives to OpenAI in AI / ML, each listed above with its tier. Of those, 13 carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold, so they are listed in an order that rotates daily, 6 are demoted with the reason named, 8 are listed last behind a stated gate. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
What category is OpenAI in?
OpenAI is categorized under AI / ML on AgentDeals. We list 27 other AI / ML services alongside it, every one of them on this page with its free tier and the stability we publish for it.