[jerrygoyal]

I am interested to use the assistant api for my commercial project but it is not clear from the article what the token count looks like?

- is it counted for a single user message or the sum of all previous messages?

- if there's a file, will it be counted every time a user interacts or only the first time?

[visarga]

I think

- it is correlated to the sum, every new interaction adds the whole history again

- yes, but you probably pay for the retrieved fragments, not the whole file

[brandall10]

On the second point, there was an issue on launch where it would not find a relevant fragment and appear to load the whole file into the context. Unsure if this has changed but it freaked quite a few folks out OpenAI discussion forums w/ escalating costs.