Sam Altman once considered abandoning token-based pricing, but dropped the idea due to customer opposition
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed that the company had considered abandoning token-based billing for its next-generation models in favor of a model where developers submit a prompt and receive a single price directly, similar to AWS's billing model, but dropped the idea because customer feedback was extremely negative. Customers said they need to know what they are paying for, and would even rather accept inflated token counts and pay higher fees than give up itemized billing they can verify. Altman acknowledged that tokens are "a kind of fake unit" and not a good way to measure usage, but OpenAI still uses token-based pricing for now.
y had considered abandoning token-based billing for its next-generation models in favor of a model where developers submit a prompt and receive a single price directly, similar to AWS's billing model, but dropped the idea because customer feedback was extremely negative. Customers said they need to know what they are paying for, and would even rather accept inflated token counts and pay higher fees than give up itemized billing they can verify. Altman acknowledged that tokens are "a kind of fake
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