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GPT 5 Chat API Pricing 2026

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Last updated: February 15, 2026 at 08:07 AM

Overview

GPT 5 Chat was released on August 7, 2025. Pricing starts at $1.25 per million input tokens and $10.00 per million output tokens. The model supports a context window of up to 128K tokens. API access is available through OpenAI.

Context Window
128K
tokens
Pricing
Input$1.25
Output$10.00
Cached$0.125
per 1M tokens
Speed
Output-
TTFT-
median latency
Capabilities
VisionToolsCaching

Pricing Comparison

Compare GPT 5 Chat with 10 similar models by price.

Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)

11 models

Provider
Model
Input $/M
Output $/M
Coding
MMLU
GPQA
Context
Actions
$1.250
$10.000
128,000
Try
$1.100
$4.400
71.7
79.1
74.8
200,000
Try
$1.200
$6.000
262,144
Try
$1.200
$1.200
16.9
69.0
46.5
131,072
Try
$1.200
$6.000
76.7
84.1
76.4
262,144
Try
$1.250
$10.000
77.0
83.7
82.2
1,048,576
Try
$1.250
$10.000
400,000
Try
$1.250
$10.000
49.4
80.1
64.3
400,000
Try
$1.250
$10.000
128,000
Try
$1.250
$10.000
84.9
86.0
86.0
400,000
Try
$1.250
$10.000
84.0
86.5
83.7
400,000
Try

* Some models use tiered pricing based on prompt length. Displayed prices are for prompts ≤ 200k tokens.

Compare Providers

GPT 5 Chat is available from multiple providers with different pricing and availability.

1
Providers
$1.250
Cheapest Input/M
$10.000
Cheapest Output/M
OpenAI
Best Price

Provider Pricing

1 models

Provider
Input $/M
Output $/M
Uptime
OpenAI
OpenAI
Best Price
$1.250
$10.000
100.0%
Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

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Frequently Asked Questions

GPT 5 Chat costs $0.001250 per 1,000 input tokens and $0.010000 per 1,000 output tokens.
GPT 5 Chat is available from 1 provider(s). OpenAI offers the best price.
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