OpenAI Platform
Ranked 10 of 10 LLM APIs by recommenders
Recommended for building AI features, especially tool calling and multimodal work, and for its logging UI. Critics report bugs and no per-key spending limit.
Recommended for building AI features, especially tool calling and multimodal work, and for its logging UI. Critics report bugs and no per-key spending limit.
8 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 3
- approval share
- 63%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 1.6 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Superior for tool calling and multimodal
“For business applications, where tool calling and multi-modality matter a lot, OpenAI is and always has been superior.”
Comment from 16 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: Sparrow-1 – Audio-native model for human-level turn-taking without ASR” Extremely good logging UI
“They've got an extremely good logging UI in their platform web app.”
Comment from 20 Mar 2026 in “Claude Code: Channels” Direct OpenAI access seen as better
“OpenAI direct has always been better”
Comment from 29 Apr 2026 in “OpenAI models coming to Amazon Bedrock: Interview with OpenAI and AWS CEOs”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
No per-API-key spending limit
“you can't set a per api key limit in OpenAI Platform”
Comment from 19 Aug 2026 in “OpenRouter Is Joining Stripe” Buggy and untested in places
“so buggy and untested, simply broken”
Comment from 3 Mar 2026 in “When AI Writes the Software, Who Verifies It?”
Other LLM APIs people recommend
The four most recommended other LLM APIs, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mistral | 314 | 245 | 56% | 13 | 6 mo9 owners | — |
| DeepSeek API | 171 | 56 | 75% | 11 | 1 mo9 owners | Approved |
| OpenAI API | 166 | 286 | 37% | 13 | 9 mo7 owners | — |
| Anthropic API | 58 | 126 | 32% | 12 | — | — |
| OpenAI PlatformThis page | 5 | 3 | 63% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
6 of the 8 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Openai... you captured the sentiment.”
“you can't set a per api key limit in OpenAI Platform”
“OpenAI direct has always been better”
“They've got an extremely good logging UI in their platform web app.”
“so buggy and untested, simply broken”
“For business applications, where tool calling and multi-modality matter a lot, OpenAI is and always has been superior.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.