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OpenAI API — June, 2026

This release introduces significant enhancements for API users, including web search with image results and new moderation scores directly within API responses, offering better control and insights. A new Safety Usage Dashboard provides visibility into blocked requests, while container session billing is now more granular, reducing costs for shorter sessions. Additionally, OpenAI models are now accessible via Amazon Bedrock, and certain features like reusable prompt objects and Agent Builder are being deprecated.

Added

  • Released the Safety Usage Dashboard on the OpenAI API platform. The Safety dashboard shows blocked Responses requests based on safety_identifier values sent on requests to identify end users. Visit the Safety dashboard.
  • Released a redesigned navigation for the OpenAI API platform, visit here.
  • Added moderation scores to the Responses API and Chat Completions API. Pass a moderation object in a generation request to receive moderation results for both the model input and generated output in the same response.

Changed

  • Updated the chat-latest snapshot, which points to the latest Instant model currently used in ChatGPT. We recommend leveraging GPT-5.5 for production API usage, but feel free to use this model to test the latest improvements for chat use cases. The underlying model snapshot will be regularly updated. Read more here.
  • Web search can now return image results alongside regular text results. Use image search when your application needs current or web-grounded visuals, such as product photos, landmarks, places, events, or visual references. Read more in the web search guide.
  • Learn more in the Moderation guide.
  • Announced the deprecation of reusable prompt objects, the Evals platform, and Agent Builder. See the deprecations page for shutdown timelines and migration guidance.
  • Starting June 2, 2026, eligible container sessions will be billed per minute with a 5-minute minimum, instead of being billed at the full 20-minute session rate. The underlying per-minute rate will remain the same.
  • This update is intended to make billing more granular for shorter sessions and will lower effective cost for customers.
  • You can find current built-in tool pricing in our API pricing docs.
  • OpenAI models are now available in Amazon Bedrock through an OpenAI-compatible Responses API endpoint. Supported models and features vary by AWS Region. Learn more.