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OpenAI Flex Processing and webhook gaps
From OpenAI
Looking into OpenAI Flex Processing for cheaper asynchronous workloads. The pitch is simple: lower-cost processing for tasks that don’t need an immediate response.
The catch for us in Europe: OpenAI webhooks aren’t available here yet. Without webhooks, there’s no clean push notification when a long-running job finishes, so we’re stuck polling or building our own completion-tracking layer.
Alternatives to explore:
- AWS Bedrock — may have better async/notification support in EU regions.
- Azure OpenAI — often has different regional availability and webhook/eventing options.
For now, Flex Processing is on the list, but only if the polling overhead is worth the cost savings.