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Last updated: March 9, 2026 at 08:02 PM

Overview

Babbage. Pricing starts at $0.500 per million input tokens and $0.500 per million output tokens. The model supports a context window of up to - tokens. API access is available through OpenAI.

Context Window
-
tokens
Pricing
Input$0.500
Output$0.500
per 1M tokens
Speed
Output-
TTFT-
median latency
Capabilities
Text only

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Model
Input $/M
Output $/M
Coding
MMLU
GPQA
Context
Actions
$0.500
$0.500
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Babbage costs $0.000500 per 1,000 input tokens and $0.000500 per 1,000 output tokens.
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