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OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%

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Re: OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%

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Post by teruakohatu »

coderatlarge wrote: post #267
34679 wrote: 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…

this reminds me of how broadcom maintains the “free” tier of vmware.

Can you explain? Is it not actually free?

Re: OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%

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Post by azinman2 »

jazzyjackson wrote: post #276
leetrout wrote: post #243

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I actually contacted the California AG to get a refund from another AI company after they failed to refund me. The AG office followed up and I got my refund. Worth my time to file because we should stop letting companies get away with this stuff where they show up with more requirements after paying. Separately they also do not need my phone number after having my name, address and credit card. Has anyone got info on…

(having no insider info:) Because it can be used as a primary key ID across aggregated marketing databases including your voting history / party affiliation, income levels, personality and risk profiles etc etc etc. If a company wants to, and your data hygiene hasn't been tip top, your phone number is a pointer to a ton of intimate if not confidential data. Twitter was fined $150 million for asking for phone numbers…

OpenAI doesn’t (currently) sell ads. I really cannot see a world where they’re wanting to sell ads to their API users only? It’s not like you need a phone number to use ChatGPT.

To me the obvious example is fraud/abuse protection.

Re: OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%

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Post by cess11 »

34679 wrote: 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 suspect their data collection might not be legal in the EU.

https://withpersona.com/legal/privacy-policy

To me it looks like an extremely aggressive data pump.

Re: OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%

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Post by Retric »

5Qn8mNbc2FNCiVV wrote: post #278
34679 wrote: 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…

This feels eerily similar to a post I've read a within the last month. Either I'm having a deja vu, it's a coincidence that the same exact story is mentioned or theres something else going on

This is OpenAI’s fairly dystopian process, so the exact same thing happens to lots of people.

Re: OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%

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Post by wqaatwt »

cess11 wrote: post #333
34679 wrote: 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 suspect their data collection might not be legal in the EU. https://withpersona.com/legal/privacy-policy To me it looks like an extremely aggressive data pump.

There are stories about e.g. Hetzner requiring all sorts of data from people who want to open/verify accounts so perhaps not. Might just be an anti “money laundering” thing. Especially if the credit card company ends up refunding everything..

Re: OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%

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Post by Hard_Space »

ukblewis wrote: post #196
tedsanders wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, our models are sometimes too lazy. It’s not intentional, and future models will be less lazy. When I worked at Netflix I sometimes heard the same speculation about intentionally bad recommendations, which people theorized would lower streaming and increase profit margins. It made even less sense there as streaming costs are usually less than a penny. In reality, it’s just hard to make perfect products! (I work…

Please be careful about the alternative. I’ve seen o3 doing excessive tool calls and research for relatively simple problems.

After the last few weeks, where o3 seems desperate to do tool searches or re-crunch a bad gen even though I only asked a question about it, I assumed that the policy is to burn through credits at the fastest possible rate. With this price change, I don't know what's happening now...

Re: OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%

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Post by johanyc »

koakuma-chan wrote: post #202
johanyc wrote: post #199

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> Or is the price drop an attempt to cover up bad news about the outage with news about the price drop? This makes no sense. No way a global outage will get less coverage than the price drop. Also the earliest sign of price drop is this tweet 20 hrs ago ( https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/1932248668469445002 ), which is earlier than the earliest outage reports 13hrs ago on https://downdetector.com/status/openai/

> No way a global outage will get less coverage than the price drop. Have you seen today's outage on any news outlet? I have not. Is there an HN thread?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2025/06/10/chatgpt-o...

Re: OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%

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Post by hnaccount_rng »

azinman2 wrote: post #332
jazzyjackson wrote: post #276

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(having no insider info:) Because it can be used as a primary key ID across aggregated marketing databases including your voting history / party affiliation, income levels, personality and risk profiles etc etc etc. If a company wants to, and your data hygiene hasn't been tip top, your phone number is a pointer to a ton of intimate if not confidential data. Twitter was fined $150 million for asking for phone numbers…

OpenAI doesn’t (currently) sell ads. I really cannot see a world where they’re wanting to sell ads to their API users only? It’s not like you need a phone number to use ChatGPT. To me the obvious example is fraud/abuse protection.

They don’t need to. It’s totally sufficient that they can correlate your chat history with your identity. That makes other identifiers more valuable, if they can extract your interests

Re: OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%

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Post by Gigablah »

anoncareer0212 wrote: post #321
johnb231 wrote: post #320

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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.

This is just “f—- off” dressed in formal language, so not much better.
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