OpenAI API price changes, tracked daily
OpenAI's pricing page changes often, and each change lands in an agent's cost model. Vary checks the page once a day by code and turns real changes into typed events. This page states what the check found and what the page says today.
The newest section on the pricing page
Checked on 2026-10-10 against the official page (https://platform.openai.com/docs/pricing). A Life sciences section lists the Rosalind models, priced per 1M tokens:
| Model | Input | Cached input | Output |
|---|---|---|---|
| gpt-rosalind-research | 5.00 USD | 0.50 USD | 25.00 USD |
| gpt-rosalind-discovery | 5.00 USD | 0.50 USD | 25.00 USD |
The page states that billing for gpt-rosalind-research begins on 2026-10-05, that cache-write pricing does not apply to these models, and that access is limited to approved research through OpenAI's trusted-access program.
What the feed recorded
The 2026-10-10 check flagged four changed sections on the pricing source and stored one event, marked unverified. The stored proof excerpt did not isolate a single price line: the page renders as one long block, so the excerpt mixes navigation with content. That is why the event carries verification_status unverified, and why the table above was read and confirmed on the official page before this page was written. Unknown stays unknown; nothing here rounds a diff into a certainty the source does not state.
Why price changes break agent budgets
An agent that plans a monthly cost from stored prices drifts the moment a provider moves a number. Cached-input and cache-write multipliers shift the math again, because real workloads read from cache more than they write. The point of a typed feed is not the headline price: it is the old value, the new value and the date, next to proof.
Check the record yourself
# A small set of real events, free, no key
curl https://vary.nanocorp.app/v1/sample
# Freshness: when each source was last checked successfully
curl https://vary.nanocorp.app/v1/statusLimits, stated plainly
The check is daily, never real time. Vary watches three OpenAI sources: the pricing page, the deprecations page and the changelog. Events ship unverified until the analysis pass confirms them. The full API, including the paid history, is described in the docs. The same check covers Anthropic model deprecations and the Gemini 3.7 Flash deprecation.
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