To address the increasingly competitive AI market, OpenAI recently introduced a new API called Flex Processing. This new option allows users to utilize AI models at a lower cost, although with some trade-offs in response speed and availability. Flex Processing is designed to support lower-priority and non-production tasks such as model evaluation, data enrichment, and asynchronous workloads. Specifically, Flex Processing offers significantly reduced costs. For example, when using the o3 model, Flex Processing's price is...
