GPT 5 Image API Pricing 2026

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Last updated: January 23, 2026 at 08:08 AM

Overview

GPT 5 Image was released on October 14, 2025. Pricing starts at $10.00 per million input tokens and $10.00 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$10.00

Output$10.00

Cached$1.25

per 1M tokens

Speed

Output-

TTFT-

median latency

Capabilities

VisionToolsCaching

Pricing Comparison

Compare GPT 5 Image with 10 similar models by price.

Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)

11 models

Provider	Model	Input $/M	Output $/M	Coding	MMLU	GPQA	Context	Actions
O OpenAI	GPT-5 Image	$10.000	$10.000	—	—	—	400,000	Try
M Meta-llama	Llama 3.1 405B Instruct	$3.500	$3.500	30.5	73.2	51.5	10,000	Try
M Deepcogito	Cogito V2 Preview Llama 405B	$3.500	$3.500	—	—	—	32,768	Try
AI Aion Labs	Aion-1.0	$4.000	$8.000	—	—	—	131,072	Try
M Meta-llama	Llama 3.1 405B (base)	$4.000	$4.000	—	—	—	32,768	Try
RA Raifle	SorcererLM 8x22B	$4.500	$4.500	—	—	—	16,000	Try
O OpenAI	GPT-4o (2024-05-13)	$5.000	$15.000	33.4	74.0	52.6	128,000	Try
A Anthropic	Claude Opus 4.5	$5.000	$25.000	73.8	88.9	81.0	200,000	Try
O OpenAI	ChatGPT-4o	$5.000	$15.000	42.5	80.3	65.5	128,000	Try
A Anthropic	Claude 3.5 Sonnet	$6.000	$30.000	38.1	77.2	59.9	200,000	Try
AL Alpindale	Goliath 120B	$6.000	$8.000	—	—	—	6,144	Try

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

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

Providers

$10.000

Cheapest Input/M

$10.000

Cheapest Output/M

OpenAI

Best Price

Provider Pricing

1 models

Provider	Input $/M	Output $/M	Uptime
OpenAI Best Price	$10.000	$10.000	-

Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

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