OpenAI's Decisions API cuts evaluations to yes or no

OpenAI has bundled two API changes into one announcement. Alongside the Decisions API, it cut its paid API tiers from five down to three: Build, Launch, and Grow. Organizations move up automatically when their total credit purchases hit the next threshold, and monthly usage limits sit at $500, $5,000, and $200,000. That gives buyers a simpler ladder to plan against, though the body does not say whether the change alters what customers pay overall.

The Decisions API also supports zero-data retention and HIPAA-compliant use in the US and Europe. For teams that have held back from sending sensitive material to an API, that may make classification work more feasible, assuming those compliance terms match what their own policies require.

OpenAI frames the use cases as damage detection in photos, automatic customer inquiry routing, and document classification. The outcome hinges on general availability: right now the API is in public beta and only gpt-6-luna is supported, so whether it becomes a default tool for high-volume classification will depend on how quickly OpenAI widens model support.