OpenAI Agents API
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Initial research: 2026-09-21. Check current terms before choosing.
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The facts
- Version
- public beta
- Price
- Price not verified. Open the tool record for the available pricing sources.
- API
✓Supported - Open weights
✕Not supported - Commercial use
- yes
- Computer use
✓Supported Exposes the same harness that runs Codex and ChatGPT for Work; OpenAI describes GPT-6 Astra as state of the art at computer use
Source for Computer use (opens in a new tab)- Browser control
✓Supported ChatGPT Agent, which absorbed Operator in July 2025, runs its own virtual computer with a browser
Source for Browser control (opens in a new tab)- Multi-step autonomy
✓Supported Long-lived sessions running for hours or days, with subagent coordination and context compaction across long tasks
Source for Multi-step autonomy (opens in a new tab)- Sandboxed execution
✓Supported OpenAI-hosted sandbox, private VPC, or 9 partner sandboxes including Vercel, Cloudflare and E2B
Source for Sandboxed execution (opens in a new tab)
Worth knowing
OpenAI shuts down Agent Builder, the Evals platform and the reusable prompts API on 30 November 2026, announced 3 June 2026.
From the publisher
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Beyond feature support
Quality evidence.
How well a model performs depends on the task, version, and settings.
We have not published a reviewed quality evaluation for these versions yet. Feature support and price do not establish output quality.
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