OpenAI API
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“This was so bad that I switched to OpenAI API instead.”
“Did a rerun with the official OpenAI API directly and was able to reproduce the issue”
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“OpenAI’s API format has become an industry standard.”
“Open AI gives much more value for money than Claude”
“standardized API is openai api so thats what i went with”
Caveats and dissent
“it seems more likely than not that at least some amount of his usage became training data”
“What is especially bad is that if you fail the verification process, they won’t let you retry”
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“China and Hong Kong are conveniently missing”
“OAI does not have regional processing for AU”
Often compared with
2 moved from OpenAI API to Claude
1 moved from OpenAI API to Gemini
1 moved from Gemini API to OpenAI API
1 moved from OpenAI API to Gemini API
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 2 mentions
- Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026) 2 mentions
- Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration 2 mentions
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2025) 2 mentions
- You should write an agent 2 mentions
- Gemini 4 Argon 1 mention
Also written as OpenAI, openai. Data: openai-api.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
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“This was so bad that I switched to OpenAI API instead.”
“Did a rerun with the official OpenAI API directly and was able to reproduce the issue”
“OpenAI and Anthropic are both 10/mil in.”
“We're using the standard OpenAI API setup”
“OpenAI’s API format has become an industry standard.”
“We use the OAI API because there is no local equivalent”
“it seems more likely than not that at least some amount of his usage became training data”
https://community.e.foundation/t/voice-to-text-feature-using-open-ai/70509
“I enabled all data sharing settings”
“OpenAI, for a while now, has had free API usage when data sharing is enabled”
“Stack: Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, and Perplexity APIs in production”
“Open AI gives much more value for money than Claude”
“Claude + OpenAI APIs”
“What is especially bad is that if you fail the verification process, they won’t let you retry”
“Claude + OpenAI + Gemini + Perplexity APIs in production”
“production calls OpenAI's API from Python”
“OpenAI API also supports defer_loading”
“China and Hong Kong are conveniently missing”
“standardized API is openai api so thats what i went with”
“uses a web page + phone camera + OpenAI API to identify physical DVDs”
“Technologies: Go, TypeScript, AWS, Terraform, SpiceDB, Stripe Connect, PostgreSQL, React, React Native, Claude/OpenAI APIs, Eleven Labs”
“OpenAI does this for all API calls”
“OpenAI also worked like this last time I used it”
“I use the OpenAI API for everything”
“Not true.”
“Built with Next.js and the OpenAI API.”
“OAI does not have regional processing for AU”
“OpenAI API”
“Built with Next.js, Firebase Admin SDK, and OpenAI (gpt-4o-mini”
Hey nice site. The Ledge (https://the-ledge.ai) is a site I developed over the past year with more of a focus on bill content. Ultimately I found it useful to use all three LLM (Gemini, Claude, OpenAi) to ingest and dissect bill text en route to producing useful reports. Especially challenging for bills that run 1000+ pages.
“When I use OpenAI, Openrouter etc., I can put 10 $ on my API key”
“I found that too much of a hassle and switched to other LLM providers.”
“only have this models with OpenAI models. That's why I don't use them.”
“use my OpenAI API and Gemini API access for sub-agent work”
“it works quite well for low-priority things”
“OpenAI”
“improves the speed of a request by about 40% according to my tests”
“OpenAI for profile Embedding.”
“OpenAI API lets you do regex structured output and it's much better than JSON for code.”
“OpenAI was still the fastest, cheapest, working platform for it up until middle of last year.”