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GPT-5 Image Pricing

OpenAI · openai-gpt-5-image

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Input / 1M tokens
$10.00
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)$0.016
1,000 requests / month$16.00/mo10,000 requests / month$160.00/mo100,000 requests / month$1,600.00/mo
Estimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with GPT-5 Image preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.

Price history

Only one price point recorded so far.

The staircase chart appears once a price change is detected.

What it excels at

Handles very large multimodal contexts and produces extended outputs in a single pass.

The business tradeoff

Uniform input/output pricing raises costs for long generations; availability restricted to commercial API.

Cheaper from OpenAI

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

Same tier from other providers

Claude Fable 5Anthropic$0.032/ typical requestQwen3.7 PlusQwen$0.0009/ typical requestGrok 4.3xAI$0.0025/ typical request

Head-to-head

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

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