# OpenAI — Stop Overpaying for Intelligence | DevDay 2026

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2026-10-07T21:10:51+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nmlHbSB8kM
- Record: https://forck.live/items/19927-stop-overpaying-for-intelligence-devday-2026

OpenAI's DevDay 2026 talk covers strategies to reduce AI costs while maintaining quality, including measuring cost per completed task, selecting models and reasoning effort, and using prompt caching, Programmatic Tool Calling, and the Batch API.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nmlHbSB8kM:

> Cut AI costs while preserving quality. Learn to measure cost per completed task, choose models and reasoning effort, and use prompt caching, Programmatic Tool Calling, and the Batch API.

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