Personally I have been using Deepseek V4 flash and it is enough for my needs. You can use OpenCode Zen/Go and also get access to many other models, including OpenAI ones. Writing purpose specific agents can make cheaper models close the intelligence gap with the most expensive ones

Aren’t you better using other services than OpenAI if the price matters to you?

There are many providers and harnesses. You could go almost 90% of the frontier models for the fraction of the price. You have 3 more free days of ox alpha.

Geofencing has been quite good at creating feeling of being ripped off in the developed countries - from which the bulk of the companies revenue come from - that companies seems to be dropping it lately.

Anyway - China's advances seems to have caught the big 2 unprepared, so price war seems to be going on.

And there are Chinese resellers for frontier models if you are desperate for high end frontier tokens.