How to Reduce Claygent and OpenAI Credit Costs When Using GPT-5 with Complex Prompts

·Mar 04, 2026 06:21 AM·

Hi, any tips on reducing Claygent + OpenAI credits cost? I'm bringing my own key but using a fairly complex prompt. Using GPT 5 model, and each run is costing me around $0.1 to $0.4.

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How to Reduce Claygent and OpenAI Credit Costs When Using GPT-5 with Complex Prompts

John T.

·Mar 04, 2026 06:21 AM·

Hi, any tips on reducing Claygent + OpenAI credits cost? I'm bringing my own key but using a fairly complex prompt. Using GPT 5 model, and each run is costing me around $0.1 to $0.4.

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Rémi L.
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Hi, I get a similar problem recently. I guess you already tried other smaller model and the results were not good enough ? Maybe, can your task be split in smaller ones requiring less complex models ?
John T.
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yeah sadly 😞 thx! Will try breaking it down into smaller steps
Chehan
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Using parallel.ai / exa.ai as a HTTP APIs for web research tasks instead of claygents helps
Emrah Y.
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what is the use case?

Rémi L.
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Hi, I get a similar problem recently. I guess you already tried other smaller model and the results were not good enough ? Maybe, can your task be split in smaller ones requiring less complex models ?
John T.
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yeah sadly 😞 thx! Will try breaking it down into smaller steps
Chehan
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Using parallel.ai / exa.ai as a HTTP APIs for web research tasks instead of claygents helps
Emrah Y.
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what is the use case?