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OpenAI Introduces Free, Prototype, and Accelerate Plans for AI App Hosting

September 23, 2026
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A new OpenAI Platform onboarding screen spotted on 23 September 2026 offers three plans: Free, Prototype starting at $5 and Accelerate starting at $50. The headline says they are for AI app hosting, but no plan card mentions hosting, and the prices match OpenAI’s existing Tier 1 and Tier 2 thresholds exactly. This article reads the screen line by line, works through what $50 buys in tokens, sets out what OpenAI already hosts for developers, and lists what DevDay on 29 September needs to answer.

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OpenAI Launches GPT-Live-1 API and Agents API Public Beta

September 11, 2026
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OpenAI launched GPT-Live-1 in the API and the Agents API in public beta on 10 September 2026. We read both announcements against 21 pages of OpenAI’s documentation. Four of GPT-Live-1’s seven benchmark charts score it with a GPT-6 Astra or Terra backend attached, its $0.05-a-minute rate bills silence, and the two products sit in different data-control categories: GPT-Live-1 is eligible for Zero Data Retention and European processing, the Agents API is not.