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OpenAIX · Jul 18, 2024 · official

GPT-4o mini pricing drop

OpenAI's line chart drew 1.3M views on X: 8.1x its median post and #93 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold by views. Read Oct 13, 2026.

GPT-4o mini is more than 60% cheaper than GPT-3.5 Turbo

XDataLine chartGPT-4oAll OpenAI modelsgpt-3.5-turbo-0301gpt-3.5-turbo-0613gpt-3.5-turbo-1106gpt-3.5-turbo-0125gpt-4o-mini
Published by OpenAI on X, Jul 18, 2024. Source: x.com
67/ 100

ViralChart score

Wide but thin

More views than the median post but a lower engagement rate: many saw it, few acted. Common for big accounts.

#286 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold · #24 of 74 OpenAI posts. Score = views 40%, likes 30%, engagement rate 15%, save rate 15%, each as a percentile of every AI chart post we hold.

Our read

The post sits in the Wide but thin quadrant, at #286 of 1,162 AI chart posts.

Its 1.3M views are 8.1x OpenAI's median post, ranking #9 of 74 OpenAI posts.

Engagement sits at 0.27%, the 8th percentile among AI chart posts and #1,072 of 1,162.

At 2.85 views per follower, it lands in the 89th percentile among posts with known followers.

8.1xOpenAI's median post

1.3M views, where OpenAI's typical post gets 161.5K.

18xthe median line chart post

Across 68 line chart posts we hold, the median gets 73.7K views.

bottom 8%engagement rate

0.27% of viewers liked, reposted, quoted or replied. The median post gets 0.73%.

bottom 15%save rate

0.031% of viewers bookmarked it to come back to. The median post gets 0.076%.

Public X numbers from our read on Oct 13, 2026. Peers: 1,162 AI chart posts we hold and 74 from OpenAI.

Where it sits

Reach against resonance

Each dot is a post. Right is more views, up is a higher engagement rate. The lines are the medians, so the four corners are the four kinds of post.

Among 1,162 AI chart posts we hold

Score #286 of 1,162

Views1.3M#93top 8%
Likes2.5K#119top 10%
Engagement rate0.27%#1,072bottom 8%
Save rate0.031%#984bottom 15%

Among 74 OpenAI posts

Score #24 of 74

Views1.3M#9top 11%
Likes2.5K#14top 18%
Engagement rate0.27%#63bottom 16%
Save rate0.031%#57bottom 24%

Growth

Our reads cover 26 hours

Views1.3M
Age at our read817 days
Views per day of life1.6Kviews divided by days since it was posted
Gained between our reads+12views over 26 hours, about 11 a day now

Dots are our reads. The dotted line from the day it was posted to our first read is a gap, not data.

OpenAI's posts over time

Every post from this account we hold, by date and views. This one is marked; the line is the running median of the last 10.

News · Jul 18, 2024

OpenAI posts GPT-4o mini pricing drop line chart

The July 18, 2024 line chart shows GPT-4o mini pricing against earlier GPT-3.5 Turbo prices, drawing 1.3M views.

What happened

OpenAI posted a line chart on July 18, 2024, showing GPT-4o mini pricing against GPT-3.5 Turbo prices. It was one of 2 posts from the account that day, alongside Model Evaluation Scores by Benchmark at 167K views.

The numbers

The post reached 1.3M views, #93 of 1,162 AI chart posts, against a median of 39.9K. Its score of 67 ranks #286 of 1,162 AI chart posts and #24 of 74 OpenAI posts.

The lesson

A line chart with 5 models shown drew 1.3M views but a 0.27% engagement rate, the 8th percentile among AI chart posts. The chart shows price falling from 2 to 0.24 across printed values.

What it means

At #24 of 74 OpenAI posts by score, this chart trails the account's own engagement median of 0.54%. Its 1.3M views sit 8.1x above OpenAI's median post, but the 0.27% rate is below the 0.73% median among AI chart posts.

Written by ViralChart from public numbers read on Oct 13, 2026. Every number is checked against our data before it is shown.

Updates: what OpenAI posted next

  1. GPT-4o pricing reduction over time283.1K views
  2. SWE-bench Verified accuracy21.3K views
  3. Internal OpenAI Instructions following eval accuracy (hard subset)16.6K views
  4. SWE-Bench Verified Software Engineering392.1K views

Data and API

10 points read off this chart

Estimated from the image 50%
SeriesGroupValueRead
Mar '232 $ per 1M tokensprinted
Jun '231.6 $ per 1M tokensprinted
Nov '231.2 $ per 1M tokensprinted
Jan '240.7 $ per 1M tokensprinted
Jul '240.24 $ per 1M tokensprinted
gpt-3.5-turbo-03012 $ per 1M tokensprinted
gpt-3.5-turbo-06131.6 $ per 1M tokensprinted
gpt-3.5-turbo-11061.2 $ per 1M tokensprinted
gpt-3.5-turbo-01250.7 $ per 1M tokensprinted
gpt-4o-mini0.24 $ per 1M tokensprinted

Max plan · API

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