Before you cancel OpenAI API
A general offboarding checklist with your modeled costs and alternatives. Account-specific cancellation steps, retention and refunds must be confirmed with OpenAI API.
What this comparison covers
Commercial API inference for generative language and reasoning models. Shared multi-tenant API endpoints, standard rate limits, and pay-as-you-go billing without committed use discounts or provisioned throughput. Fine-tuning, batch API discounts, embeddings, and audio generation are excluded.
Evaluating 1 products from 4 published in this category. USD monthly equivalents, before tax. Features and service compatibility need separate evaluation.
- Standard input tokens
- 10,000,000 tokens / month
- Output tokens
- 2,000,000 tokens / month
- Cached prompt tokens
- 5,000,000 tokens / month
OpenAI API
Industry-standard foundation models with automatic prompt caching and vision.
$3.08 / month
GPT-4o mini
Official pricing · Checked 2026-10-06
Cost breakdown and exclusions
- Monthly subscription: $0
- Standard input tokens: $1.50
- Output completion tokens: $1.20
- Cached prompt tokens: $0.38
- Automatic 50% prompt caching discount applies to prompts with 1,024+ identical leading tokens.
- Fine-tuning, Batch API discounts, audio/realtime APIs, and image generation.
Protect what you need to keep
Export support and formats vary by provider and plan. Follow official documentation and verify the exported data before cancellation; this assessment does not provide a tested vendor-specific export procedure.
Confirm the terms for your account
- Cancellation, refunds, notice periods and data deletion depend on your agreement and provider policy. No universal retention or refund period is assumed.
Questions before you decide
Will cancelling OpenAI API immediately stop charges or delete data?
That depends on your contract and the provider's current process. Confirm the effective cancellation date, pending charges and data-retention policy directly before proceeding.