GPT 5 Nano API Pricing 2026

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

Overview

GPT 5 Nano was released on August 7, 2025. Pricing starts at $0.050 per million input tokens and $0.400 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$0.050

Output$0.400

Cached$0.0050

per 1M tokens

Speed

Output141 tok/s

TTFT110.10s

median latency

Capabilities

VisionToolsCaching

Pricing Comparison

Compare GPT 5 Nano 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 Nano	$0.050	$0.400	78.9	78.0	67.6	400,000	Try
NV Nvidia	Nemotron Nano 9B V2	$0.040	$0.160	70.1	73.9	55.7	131,072	Try
G Google	Gemma 3 27B	$0.040	$0.150	13.7	66.9	42.8	128,000	Try
QW Qwen	Qwen2.5 7B Instruct	$0.040	$0.100	—	36.5	5.5	32,768	Try
M Sao10k	Llama 3 8B Lunaris	$0.040	$0.050	—	31.0	6.8	8,192	Try
AR Arcee AI	Trinity Mini	$0.045	$0.150	—	—	—	131,072	Try
M Meta-llama	Llama 3.2 11B Vision Instruct	$0.049	$0.049	11.0	46.4	22.1	131,072	Try
MI Mistral AI	Mistral Small 3	$0.050	$0.080	—	—	—	32,768	Try
A Allenai	Olmo 2 32B Instruct	$0.050	$0.200	6.8	51.1	32.8	128,000	Try
NV Nvidia	Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B	$0.050	$0.200	36.0	57.9	39.9	262,144	Try
MI Mistral AI	Devstral 2 2512	$0.050	$0.220	44.8	76.2	59.4	262,144	Try

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

Compare Providers

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

Providers

$0.050

Cheapest Input/M

$0.400

Cheapest Output/M

OpenAI

Best Price

Provider Pricing

2 models

Provider	Input $/M	Output $/M	Uptime
OpenAI Best Price	$0.050	$0.400	100.0%
A Azure Best Price	$0.050	$0.400	100.0%

Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

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Detailed Benchmark Scores

Intelligence

26.7 (66th pct)

Coding

20.3 (57th pct)

Math

83.7 (79th pct)

MMLU Pro

78.0 (55th pct)

GPQA

67.6 (59th pct)

LiveCodeBench

78.9 (86th pct)

AIME

Aider

Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard

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