Scoop: OpenAI quietly testing outcome-based pricing for major customers
gaganghotra_ · x · 2026-08-31
A scoop suggests OpenAI has started offering outcome-based pricing to major customers, who only pay when the AI completes tasks like customer-support interactions. This marks a shift from selling tokens to selling completed work, potentially a big move before the GPT-Astra release.
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