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r/openai pain points

VettedGaps has researched 102 problems people raise in r/openai, each backed by real posts.

By category

  • Performance & Reliability: 38
  • Billing & Pricing: 22
  • Integrations & API: 21
  • Permissions & Access Control: 4

Top problems

  • Responses API developers pay for context carried through long runs (Search & Filtering · 1 piece of evidence)
  • OpenAI Codex users abandon it for local Qwen models due to quota limits and performance (Performance & Reliability · 4 pieces of evidence)
  • OpenAI subscribers hit by usage cuts and model degradation (Billing & Pricing · 5 pieces of evidence)

What people say

“a big portion of the tokens on the expensive runs aren’t coming from what the model generates”
From r/openai, on “Responses API developers pay for context carried through long runs”

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