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Yes, we treat Playground usage the same as regular API usage. You will be billed at the per-token input and output prices mentioned above.
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How is pricing calculated for images?
Images are converted into tokens and charged per token. Text models price image tokens at standard text token rates, while GPT Image and gpt-realtime uses a separate image token rate. Models like gpt-4.1-mini, gpt-4.1-nano, and o4-mini convert images into tokens differently.
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