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GPT-5 Pricing
OpenAI · openai-gpt-5
Input / 1M tokens
$1.25
Output / 1M tokens
$10.00
Context window
400k tokens
≈ 533 pages of text
Max output
128k tokens
What it costs in practice
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out tokens)$0.0055
1,000 requests / month$5.50/mo10,000 requests / month$55.00/mo100,000 requests / month$550.00/moEstimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with GPT-5 preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.
Price history
Only one price point recorded so far.
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What it excels at
Excels at long-context reasoning and multi-step analysis over large documents or codebases. Supports high-volume structured output generation.
The business tradeoff
Elevated output-token pricing relative to input; commercial API only with no on-premise deployment option.
Cheaper from OpenAI
Head-to-head
Vendor list rates, as of Jun 15, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.