OpenAI’s o1-pro is the company’s most expensive AI model yet

OpenAI has launched a extra highly effective model of its o1 “reasoning” AI mannequin, o1-pro, in its developer API.

In accordance with OpenAI, o1-pro makes use of extra computing than o1 to offer “persistently higher responses.” At present, it’s solely obtainable to pick builders — those that’ve spent no less than $5 on OpenAI API companies — and it’s dear. Very dear.

OpenAI is charging $150 per million tokens (~750,000 phrases) fed into the mannequin and $600 per million tokens generated by the mannequin. That’s twice the value of OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 for enter and 10x the value of standard o1.

OpenAI is betting that o1-pro’s improved efficiency will persuade builders to pay these princely sums.

“O1-pro within the API is a model of o1 that makes use of extra computing to assume tougher and supply even higher solutions to the toughest issues,” an OpenAI spokesperson informed TechCrunch. “After getting many requests from our developer group, we’re excited to convey it to the API to supply much more dependable responses.”

But early impressions of o1-pro, which has been obtainable in OpenAI’s AI-powered chatbot platform ChatGPT for ChatGPT Pro subscribers since December, weren’t extremely optimistic. The mannequin struggled with Sudoku puzzles, customers discovered, and was tripped up by easy optical phantasm jokes.

Moreover, sure OpenAI internal benchmarks from late final 12 months confirmed that o1-pro carried out solely barely higher than the usual o1 on coding and math issues. It did reply these issues extra reliably, nevertheless, the benchmarks discovered.