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GPT-5.5 Pricing

OpenAI · openai-gpt-5-5

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Input / 1M tokens

$5.00

Output / 1M tokens

$30.00

Context window

1050k tokens

≈ 1,400 pages of text

Max output

128k tokens

What it costs in practice

Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out tokens)$0.018

1,000 requests / month$18.00/mo 10,000 requests / month$180.00/mo 100,000 requests / month$1,800.00/mo

Estimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with GPT-5.5 preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.

Price history

Only one price point recorded so far.

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What it excels at

Supports very long context windows and high output volume for multi-step reasoning and document-scale analysis. Vision capability enables direct processing of image inputs alongside text.

The business tradeoff

Output pricing at $30 per million tokens raises costs for generation-intensive workloads. Performance and availability depend entirely on commercial API infrastructure.

Cheaper from OpenAI

GPT-5.6 Luna ProOpenAI$0.0004/ typical request GPT-5.5 (batch)OpenAI$0.009/ typical request GPT-5.4 MiniOpenAI$0.0027/ typical request

Same tier from other providers

Claude Fable 5Anthropic$0.032/ typical request Qwen3.7 PlusQwen$0.0009/ typical request Grok 4.3xAI$0.0025/ typical request

Head-to-head

GPT-5.5 vs Claude Fable 5 →GPT-5.5 vs Qwen3.7 Plus →GPT-5.5 vs Grok 4.3 →

Vendor list rates, as of Jun 15, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.