Never released. "Orion" was a reported internal codename at OpenAI; no product has ever shipped under that name.
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Pricing & free tier — last checked
How we checked: read directly from the vendor's own pricing page — source
The URL returns 404 and the name appears in no OpenAI documentation. Orion was a reported codename; nothing shipped under it. We had it listed as a free product.
| What | What we found | Status |
|---|---|---|
| openai.com/orion | 404 Not FoundWe were sending readers from our free tools page to a URL that does not exist. | Changed since last check |
| Presence in OpenAI's model documentation | Absent. Also absent from the GPT-5 announcement page. | Confirmed |
| "Free research preview for approved developers" | Withdrawn — we had no evidence such a programme existed | Changed since last check |
| The performance figures this page carried | Withdrawn. No benchmark produced them and there is no public model to run one against.The body text had already been corrected in an earlier pass today, while the meta description and two FAQ answers still published the same numbers. Seventh instance today of a correction landing in one field while the claim stood in another, and the second where the earlier pass was our own. | Changed since last check |
| Structured data | Was emitting an Offer at $0.00 to search enginesOur detail pages attach a zero-price Offer to anything typed free or freemium, so the classification was publishing a machine-readable offer for a product that does not exist. Retyping to not-released removes it. | Changed since last check |
Editor verification notes
- Kept as a corrected page rather than deleted: the name still draws searches, and most of what those searches surface repeats the same rumours as fact.
Checked by the TheToolsVerse Verification Desk — by reading the vendor's own published pages, not by testing the product in an account. Orion by OpenAI (never released) can change prices at any time without notice. The date above is the last time we looked; if it looks old, treat every figure here as unconfirmed and check Orion by OpenAI (never released) directly before paying.
How we verify →Pricing
Not available at any price, because there is no product to price. We previously listed this as a free research preview for approved developers, which described an access programme we had no evidence existed. The URL this page linked to, openai.com/orion, returns 404; the name appears in neither OpenAI's model documentation nor its GPT-5 announcement. Checked 7 September 2026.
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