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Everything OpenAI has shipped, in one place.

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OpenAIOpenAIapi
Link·Aug 21, 2026

Usage and Spend Tracking by API Key

OpenAI's usage dashboards now break spending down by individual API key, and you can set monthly limits that cut off traffic when reached.

OpenAI
  • Best for: finding which app or workload is driving an API bill
  • When to use it: several projects share one OpenAI account and the invoice does not tell you who spent what
  • Who benefits: whoever owns the AI budget on a team running more than one thing on OpenAI
OpenAIOpenAIpricing
Link·Aug 21, 2026

GPT-5.6 Sol Price Cut (Temporary)

OpenAI dropped API and credit pricing for GPT-5.6 Sol by more than 20%, for the next three months only.

  • Best for: work already running on GPT-5.6 Sol at volume
  • When to use it: you have a Sol workload you have been holding back on cost
  • Who benefits: developers on the API, and teams spending Codex or ChatGPT Work credits
OpenAIOpenAIfeature
Link·Aug 20, 2026

Apple Messages Plugin for Codex

A plugin that lets ChatGPT read, search, and send Apple Messages on a Mac.

OpenAI
  • Best for: Pulling a detail out of a long iMessage thread without scrolling back through it.
  • When to use it: The context for a task is sitting in Messages rather than in email or a document.
  • Who benefits: Mac users who run coordination through iMessage.
OpenAIOpenAIfeature
Link·Aug 20, 2026

ChatGPT Sites Co-Editing

Site owners can add workspace teammates as editors so more than one person can build and publish a site.

  • Best for: Letting a second person fix a page without routing every change through whoever created it.
  • When to use it: A site built in ChatGPT has outgrown one editor and changes are queuing behind you.
  • Who benefits: Small teams shipping landing pages and internal sites without a developer.
OpenAIOpenAIfeature
Link·Aug 20, 2026

Shared Threads in Codex and ChatGPT Work

Share a read-only link to a thread so someone can see the work behind a result, for Codex and ChatGPT Work users.

  • Best for: Handing off work with the reasoning attached instead of just the output.
  • When to use it: Someone has to review a pull request, a deep dive, or a handoff and would otherwise ask how you got there.
  • Who benefits: Teams reviewing each other's work, and anyone who currently pastes screenshots to explain a decision.
OpenAIOpenAIapi
Link·Aug 20, 2026

Prompt Caching Dashboard

A dashboard showing how much of your API traffic hits the prompt cache, for developers on the OpenAI API.

OpenAI
  • Best for: Finding out whether the caching you set up is saving money.
  • When to use it: API spend is climbing and you suspect the cache is missing more than it hits.
  • Who benefits: Developers and whoever owns the API bill.
OpenAIOpenAIapi
Link·Aug 20, 2026

Transparent Backgrounds for GPT-Image-2 (Preview)

Image generation can return a transparent background instead of a filled one, for developers using the API.

  • Best for: Generating a logo, product cutout, or icon you can drop onto any background without cutting it out by hand.
  • When to use it: The same generated asset has to sit on a light page, a dark page, and a social card.
  • Who benefits: Marketing and design teams generating reusable assets through the API rather than one at a time.
OpenAIOpenAIfeature
Link·Aug 19, 2026

GitLab Support in Codex Cloud (Beta)

Codex cloud now connects to GitLab projects, not just GitHub. In beta.

OpenAI
  • Best for: Teams whose code lives in GitLab and were locked out of Codex cloud until now.
  • When to use it: You want Codex reviewing merge requests in the repository host you already use.
  • Who benefits: Engineering teams on GitLab, and anyone waiting on their review queue.
OpenAIOpenAIapi
Link·Aug 19, 2026

Private Safety Processing (Preview)

A system that lets OpenAI spot misuse across related conversations without staff seeing the content, for enterprise and API customers on zero data retention.

OpenAI
  • Best for: Keeping a zero-retention agreement in place on frontier models instead of trading it away for safety monitoring.
  • When to use it: Legal or security blocked a frontier model because the safety tooling required keeping data.
  • Who benefits: Enterprise and API buyers in regulated industries who negotiated zero data retention.
August 2026
OpenAIOpenAIapi
Link·Aug 13, 2026

GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast Mode (Limited Preview)

A new OpenAI API service tier that runs GPT-5.6 Sol far faster than standard processing, open to a small set of customers.

  • Best for: products where a slow answer is the same as no answer, like live support or voice
  • When to use it: you were dropping to a smaller model purely to hit a latency target
  • Who benefits: teams building interactive API products on GPT-5.6 Sol