What is the cost of building on OPENAI?

[icy wagon]

Say if i had 500 people using my app built on the open ai api. How much would this potentially cost per month. How would this work?

[mild quest]

The cost depends on how many tokens you use, or which APIs you use.

https://openai.com/api/pricing/

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/4936856-what-are-tokens-and-how-to-count-them

If you provide more details about your app, e.g. is it an informational app, is it a chat bot, is it something else, then could probably help with estimates (I have a chatbot myself and it costs me from 1 cent to 4 cents per message)

[jovial scaffold]

If you have a character limit on messages, and some sort of rate limit on message frequency, you could estimate the maximum monthly cost for a user right?

[mild quest]

Yes indeed :)