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GPT-6 Astra Pricing

OpenAI · openai-gpt-6-astra

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Input / 1M tokens

$10.00

Output / 1M tokens

$50.00

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)$0.032

1,000 requests / month$32.00/mo 10,000 requests / month$320.00/mo 100,000 requests / month$3,200.00/mo

Estimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with GPT-6 Astra preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.

Price history

Only one price point recorded so far.

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What it excels at

Strong performance on long-context reasoning, multi-document synthesis, and vision-language tasks supported by the 1M-token window and high output capacity.

The business tradeoff

Premium pricing, especially at $50 per million output tokens, increases cost for generation-heavy workloads compared with lower-tier alternatives.

Cheaper from OpenAI

GPT-6 Astra (batch)OpenAI$0.016/ typical request GPT-5.6 Terra Pro (batch)OpenAI$0.0036/ typical request GPT-5.6 Luna (batch)OpenAI$0.0004/ 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-6 Astra vs Claude Fable 5 →GPT-6 Astra vs Qwen3.7 Plus →GPT-6 Astra vs Grok 4.3 →

Vendor list rates, as of Sep 4, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.