How do gray-market API resellers undercut official OpenAI pricing?
Lucky_Creme_5208 · reddit · 2026-10-22
A Reddit post asks how third parties can advertise proprietary model APIs far below official OpenAI pricing (a screenshot shows a reseller claiming up to 87.5% off, e.g. input at $0.25 per million tokens).
Such deals typically rely on shared or stolen enterprise keys, resold bulk-discount accounts, or outright bait-and-switch to cheaper quantized models — with unstable service, data leakage, and sudden bans as common risks.
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