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GPT 5 API Pricing 2026

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Overview

GPT 5 was released on August 7, 2025. Pricing starts at $0.625 per million input tokens and $5.00 per million output tokens. The model supports a context window of up to 400K tokens. API access is available through OpenAI.

Context Window
400K
tokens
Pricing
Input$0.625
Output$5.00
Cached$0.125
per 1M tokens
Speed
Output77 tok/s
TTFT0.98s
median latency
Capabilities
VisionReasoningToolsCaching

Pricing Comparison

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Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)

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Provider
Model
Input $/M
Output $/M
Coding
MMLU
GPQA
Context
Actions
$0.625
$5.000
55.8
80.6
67.3
400,000
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* Some models use tiered pricing based on prompt length. Displayed prices are for prompts ≤ 200k tokens.

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Detailed Benchmark Scores

Intelligence
23.9 (58th pct)
Coding
25.1 (64th pct)
Math
31.7 (34th pct)
MMLU Pro
80.6 (69th pct)
GPQA
67.3 (60th pct)
LiveCodeBench
55.8 (61th pct)
AIME
36.7 (56th pct)
Aider
88.0 (98th pct)
Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard

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Frequently Asked Questions

GPT 5 costs $0.000625 per 1,000 input tokens and $0.005000 per 1,000 output tokens.
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