OpenAI is already being paid for! It should now reduce a little this type of behavior here in the forum.
Either way, the price isn't too high: $0.0004 / 1K tokens (low cost); $0.0200 / 1K tokens (high cost).
Prices are per 1,000 tokens. You can think of tokens as pieces of words, where 1,000 tokens is about 750 words. This paragraph is 35 tokens.
https://openai.com/api/pricing/