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Re: OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%

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Been here for 15 years, and there's standards for interaction, especially for 19 day old accounts. I recommend other sites if you're expecting to be dismissive and rude without strong intellectual pushback.

Re: OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%

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Is there also a corresponding increase in weekly messages for ChatGPT Plus users with o3? In my experience, o4-mini and o4-mini-high are far behind o3 in utility, but since I’m rate-limited for the latter, I end up primarily using the former, which has kind of reinforced the perception that OpenAI’s thinking models are behind the competition altogether.

Before: 50 messages per week Now: 100 messages per week

That’s already been the case for a few weeks though, right? and it’s up from 50, whereas a price reduction by 80% would correspond to 5x the quota extrapolating linearly.

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Re: OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%

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I'd like to offer a cautionary tale that involves my experience after seeing this post. First, I tried enabling o3 via OpenRouter since I have credits with them already. I was met with the following: "OpenAI requires bringing your own API key to use o3 over the API. Set up here: https://openrouter.ai/settings/integrations " So I decided I would buy some API credits with my OpenAI account. I ponied up $20 and started…

> How do I get my $20 back?

Contact support and ask for a refund. Then a charge back.

Re: OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%

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Has anyone noticed that OpenAI has become "lazy"? When I ask questions now it will not give me a complete file or fix. Instead it tells me what I should do and I need to ask a second or third time to just do the thing I asked. I don't see this happening with for example deepseek. Is it possible they are saving on resources by having it answer that way?

I don't think that's laziness but maybe agent tuning.

Re: OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%

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This is almost certainly what they're doing and rebranding the original o3 model as "o3-pro"

Nope, not what we’re doing. o3 is still o3 (no nerfing) and o3-pro is new and better than o3. If we were lying about this, it would be really easy to catch us - just run evals. (I work at OpenAI.)

I think the parent-parent poster has explained why we can't trust you (and work on OpenAI doesn't help they way you think it does).

I didn't read the ToS, like everyone else, but my guess is that degrading model performance at peak times will be one of the things that can slip through. We are not suggesting you are running a different model but that you are quantizing it so that you can support more people.

This can't happen with Open weight models where you put the model, allocate the memory and run the thing. With OpenAI/Claude, we don't know the model running, how large it is, what it is running on, etc... None of that is provided and there is only one reason that I can think of: to be able to reduce resources unnoticed.

Re: OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%

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Nope, not what we’re doing. o3 is still o3 (no nerfing) and o3-pro is new and better than o3. If we were lying about this, it would be really easy to catch us - just run evals. (I work at OpenAI.)

Is it o3 (low), o3 (medium) or o3 (high)? Different model names have crept into the various benchmarks over the last few months.

o3 is a model, and reasoning effort (high/medium/low) is a parameter that goes into the model.

o3 pro is a different thing - it’s not just o3 with maximum remaining effort.

Re: OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%

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I'd like to offer a cautionary tale that involves my experience after seeing this post. First, I tried enabling o3 via OpenRouter since I have credits with them already. I was met with the following: "OpenAI requires bringing your own API key to use o3 over the API. Set up here: https://openrouter.ai/settings/integrations " So I decided I would buy some API credits with my OpenAI account. I ponied up $20 and started…

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Re: OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%

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post #226

I'd like to offer a cautionary tale that involves my experience after seeing this post. First, I tried enabling o3 via OpenRouter since I have credits with them already. I was met with the following: "OpenAI requires bringing your own API key to use o3 over the API. Set up here: https://openrouter.ai/settings/integrations " So I decided I would buy some API credits with my OpenAI account. I ponied up $20 and started…

I don't recall Persona being in the mix last year when I signed up. Interesting development.

I think it was a recent thing [1], but I thought they were only considering it

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/13/access-to-future-ai-models...

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