OpenAI marketplace economics: transaction fees dwarfed by inference and storage spend
matt_slotnick · x · 2026-10-01
Matt Slotnick contrasts the OpenAI marketplace with the hyperscaler model: with hyperscalers, value comes from joint customers running on their own infra, and you can't join marketplace or co-sell motions if you run on another cloud. OpenAI's marketplace charges a small % of upfront transaction value, but that's dwarfed by the networking, compute and storage spend of actual product deployments — commercially aligning incentives for both platform and builders.
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