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Credit Grant — Prepaid Asset Record

Grant Date

2025-04-01

Contract Reference

CONTRACT-OPENAI-2025-001

Expiry

No expiry

Opening Balance (Prepaid Asset)

$2,800,000.00

Consumed (Expensed to date)

$0.00

Closing Balance (Remaining Asset)

$2,800,000.00

OpenAI API credits granted as part of research partnership agreement. Balance sheet classification: Current Asset — Prepaid Expenses. Expense account: AI Research & Development — API Costs.

Monthly Journal Entries

DR AI Research Expense / CR Prepaid OpenAI Credits — one entry per period

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OpenAI Model Pricing

Published rates as of Q1 2025 — used for token-to-dollar conversion

ModelInput / 1M tokensOutput / 1M tokensCached Input / 1MNotes
gpt-4o$2.50$10.00$1.25
gpt-4o-mini$0.1500$0.6000$0.0750
gpt-4-turbo$10.00$30.00
gpt-4$30.00$60.00
gpt-3.5-turbo$0.5000$1.50$0.2500
o1$15.00$60.00$7.50
o1-preview$15.00$60.00$7.50
o1-mini$3.00$12.00$1.50
o3-mini$1.10$4.40$0.5500
text-embedding-3-large$0.1300Embeddings only — no output tokens
text-embedding-3-small$0.0200Embeddings only — no output tokens
dall-e-3$0.040/image (standard 1024×1024)
tts-1$15.00$15/1M characters (audio)
whisper-1$0.006/minute of audio

Token Cost Calculator

Cost Breakdown

Input (100K tokens × $2.50/1M)$0.2500
Output (20K tokens × $10.00/1M)$0.2000
Total for this call$0.450000
Calls until $1,000 spent2,222
Calls until credits exhausted6,222,222

Cost-saving alternative

Consider gpt-4o-miniSuitable for most classification, extraction, and simple reasoning tasks.

Saves $0.423000/call (94% cheaper)

Model Substitution Guide

Cost-reduction alternatives for expensive models in your current usage mix

gpt-4ogpt-4o-mini

Suitable for most classification, extraction, and simple reasoning tasks

Input: $2.50$0.1500 (94% cheaper) · Output: $10.00 → $0.6000 (94% cheaper)

gpt-4-turbogpt-4o

gpt-4o is faster and cheaper with comparable quality

Input: $10.00$2.50 (75% cheaper) · Output: $30.00 → $10.00 (67% cheaper)

gpt-4gpt-4o

gpt-4o supersedes gpt-4 on most benchmarks at lower cost

Input: $30.00$2.50 (92% cheaper) · Output: $60.00 → $10.00 (83% cheaper)

o1o3-mini

o3-mini is significantly cheaper for many reasoning tasks

Input: $15.00$1.10 (93% cheaper) · Output: $60.00 → $4.40 (93% cheaper)

o1-previewo3-mini

o3-mini is significantly cheaper for many reasoning tasks

Input: $15.00$1.10 (93% cheaper) · Output: $60.00 → $4.40 (93% cheaper)