ChatGPT API: How It Works, Pricing & How to Start (2026)
The piece explains that the "ChatGPT API" people search for is really the OpenAI API — the developer interface that lets your code talk to the same GPT models behind ChatGPT. The key point it drives home: the API is billed separately from any ChatGPT subscription (pay-per-token, payment method required, no free tier).
Jun 29, 2026
