Comment by rvz | Hacker News Reader

Comment by rvz | Hacker News Reader

They did not announce the price(s) in the presentation. Likely because they know it is going to be very expensive:

   Web Search [0]
    * $30 and $25 per 1K queries for GPT‑4o search and 4o-mini search.

   File search [1]
    * $2.50 per 1K queries and file storage at $0.10/GB/day
    * First 1GB is free.

   Computer use tool (computer-use-preview model) [2]
    * $3 per 1M input tokens and $12/1M output tokens.

[0] https://platform.openai.com/docs/pricing#web-search

[1] https://platform.openai.com/docs/pricing#built-in-tools

[2] https://platform.openai.com/docs/pricing#latest-models

Those prices, especially for web search, are absurd.

I have a hard time seeing how this API is better than https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-context-protocol.

It seems like the motivation was "how can we make more money", rather than "how can we be more useful for our users".

So they're basically pivoting from selling text by the ounce to selling web searches and cloud storage? I like it, it's a bold move. When the slow people at Google finally catch up it might be too late for Google?

Google AI Studios "Grounding" basically web search is priced similarly. (Very expensive for either, although Google gives you your first 1500 queries free).

It seems completely upside down, they always said traditional search was cheaper/less intensive, I guess a lot of tokens must go into the actual LLM searching and retrieving.

For anyone who's looking Brave Search is $3/1000 requests [0]

I also wrote a script that searches the web and works pretty well (using the vercel ai sdk)[1]

[0] - https://brave.com/search/api/

[1] - https://gist.github.com/bramses/41e90b27d156590154bcefd4119f...

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