Decisions API is in public beta(developers.openai.com)
386 points by chiefstorm 7 days ago | 223 comments
tl;dr: OpenAI's new Decisions API (public beta) offers a dedicated `/v1/decisions` endpoint that returns typed answers—predicates (probabilities), choices (categories), or scores (ordered levels)—roughly 10x faster than the Responses API. It currently runs only on gpt-6-luna at $0.10 per 1M input tokens, with no output-token charges, and accepts text or inline base64 images as input. It's aimed at classification, routing, and prioritization tasks, as opposed to Structured Outputs or function calling.
HN Discussion:
  • ↑This launch confirms AI is a commodity market, forced by competitors like Jev driving price wars
  • ↑Shows practical usage with code examples and performance benchmarks confirming claimed speed
  • ↓This appears to be a rushed response to competition with questionable probability quality
  • ~Open source and self-hosted alternatives already provide similar classification capabilities
  • ~The main real benefit is speed, since cost and quality are roughly equivalent to existing approaches