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o3 Deep Research Pricing
OpenAI · openai-o3-deep-research
Input / 1M tokens
$10.00
Output / 1M tokens
$40.00
Context window
200k tokens
≈ 267 pages of text
Max output
100k tokens
What it costs in practice
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out tokens)$0.028
1,000 requests / month$28.00/mo10,000 requests / month$280.00/mo100,000 requests / month$2,800.00/moEstimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with o3 Deep Research 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 at multi-step research synthesis, long-horizon reasoning, and handling extended context for analytical tasks.
The business tradeoff
High output-token pricing and latency from extended reasoning; narrower third-party tooling support than standard GPT releases.
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.