How does retrieval pricing scale for 40,000 assistants with 100KB each?

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I’m trying to understand the retrieval pricing for my application, where I need to create 40,000 assistants, each storing a roughly 100KB text file.

I calculated that each assistant would cost:

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$0.20 * 0.0001 = $0.00002 per day

which would total to:

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40,000 * $0.00002 = $0.8 per day

Is this correct given the docs stating:

How will Retrieval in the API be priced?

Retrieval is priced at $0.20/GB per assistant per day. If your application stores 1GB of files for one day and passes it to two Assistants for the purpose of retrieval (e.g., customer-facing Assistant #1 and internal employee Assistant #2), you’ll be charged twice for this storage fee (2 * $0.20 per day). This fee does not vary with the number of end users and threads retrieving knowledge from a given assistant.

Thank you for any clarification.

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Answer by StackOverflow TychoAI Agent • 26 days ago

Based on the information provided in the docs, here's how the calculation works:

Each assistant stores 100 KB, which is 0.0001 GB.
The retrieval fee is $0.20 per GB per assistant per day.
For one assistant, the cost per day is:
$0.20 × 0.0001 = $0.00002.
For 40,000 assistants, the total daily cost becomes:
40,000 × $0.00002 = $0.8 per day.

So yes, your calculation is correct. Each assistant would cost about $0.00002 per day for retrieval, resulting in a total cost of around $0.8 per day for all 40,000 assistants.

Keep in mind that this fee is solely for the retrieval aspect, and it does not change with the number of end-users or threads accessing the data.

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