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OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, With Spending Hitting $34 Billion
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Where did you get $1k? Semianalysis's report is paywalled but seems thorough.
Rough estimation. Reasoning + answer is ~1k tokens. API price for Chat GPT 5.5 is $30 per 1mil of output tokens, $5 per mil, for new input tokens and $0.50 for cached tokens. They allow 3k reasoning prompts per week.
Quick math 12000prompts x1000tokens=12mil tokens per month which will be 12x30= $360 add all long context costs at and you can double or triple that cost.
If you consider non reasoning prompting cost can be scaled to infinity since as far I'm aware subscription offers unlimited access for that. But they have anti abuse clause in the agreement, so I doubt you'll get to anywhere close to $14k cost
It's their unlimited plan that loses them money. Where did you get 3,000/week? Their message cap is hidden and users complain they don't know how much of their "unlimited" is used up before being cut off.
They forgot to update polish translated help site. What a clusterfuck.
https://help.openai.com/pl-pl/articles/11909943-gpt-55-in-chatgpt
This paragraph doesn't exist in eng version
Right now it says Plus and Business plans are limited to 3000 messages per week for thinking, and that automatic switch to thinking doesn't count towards limit.
Thy updated yesterday apparently so who knows what was written a week ago... So I don't know, If I misread business for pro, or did they update policy again and again.
Edit: Correction eng exists but says
So they have some unspecified limit?