Foundation Model Pricing Monitor

A paid-model pricing dashboard built from OpenRouter model metadata, focused on prompt, completion, request, and image costs while excluding free models.

April 2, 2026 · 1 min
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Weights and Measures: OpenAI's Innovator’s Dilemma

TL;DR for operators OpenAI’s planned return to open-weight language models is not a charming rediscovery of its founding name. It is a market correction. The useful way to read the move is not “OpenAI becomes open source.” That is too neat, and therefore probably wrong. The more practical reading is this: OpenAI has a premium API and subscription business, but the AI market is increasingly learning to route around premium access when “good enough, controllable, and local” beats “best, metered, and remote.” ...

April 5, 2025 · 14 min · Zelina

ChatGPT-4o (Omni)

OpenAI’s flagship GPT-4 variant that natively supports text, vision, and audio input/output with faster performance and improved reasoning.

1 min

CLIP ViT-B/32

A widely used multimodal model from OpenAI that learns joint image–text embeddings, enabling zero-shot image classification, search, and multimodal applications.

1 min

GPT-4 Turbo

A fast, cost-effective variant of GPT-4 offered via OpenAI API, featuring a 128K context window and optimized for scalable production use.

1 min

GPT-4.5 Preview

A preview version of OpenAI’s next-generation GPT-4.5 model, offering faster response times and enhanced reasoning with a 128K context window.

1 min

OpenAI o1

An advanced, text-only language model from OpenAI with GPT-4-level capabilities, optimized for performance, efficiency, and competitive benchmarks.

1 min

Whisper Large v3

A multilingual speech recognition and translation model by OpenAI, supporting 100+ languages with improved robustness and low-latency transcription.

1 min