OpenAI announced a 50% price reduction across its asynchronous Batch API for GPT-4o and GPT-4o-mini. The discount enables developers and enterprise engineering teams to run large-scale automated security scanning, unit test synthesis, and codebase documentation over 24-hour non-peak windows at half the standard cost.

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  • ✓GPT-4o Batch input rates drop to $1.25/1M tokens, doubling cost-effectiveness for offline jobs.
  • ✓Handles up to 50,000 asynchronous code review requests per batch within a 24-hour turnaround.
  • ✓Ideal for repo-wide security audits, dead-code cleanup, and synthetic test generation.
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