[keithwhor]

I suspect it is in OpenAI's interest to have their API as a loss leader for the foreseeable future, and keep margins slim once they've cornered the market. The playbook here isn't to lock in developers and jack up the API price, it's the marketplace play: attract developers, identify the highest-margin highest-volume vertical segments built atop the platform, then gobble them up with new software.

They can then either act as a distributor and take a marketplace fee or go full Amazon and start competing in their own marketplace.