o3 API Pricing 2026

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

Overview

o3 was released on April 16, 2025. Pricing starts at $2.00 per million input tokens and $8.00 per million output tokens. The model supports a context window of up to 200K tokens. API access is available through OpenAI.

Context Window

200K

tokens

Pricing

Input$2.00

Output$8.00

Cached$0.500

per 1M tokens

Speed

Output110 tok/s

TTFT20.34s

median latency

Capabilities

VisionReasoningToolsCaching

Pricing Comparison

Compare o3 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	o3	$2.000	$8.000	80.8	85.3	82.7	200,000	Try
O OpenAI	GPT-5.2	$1.750	$14.000	66.9	81.4	71.2	400,000	Try
MI Mistral AI	Mixtral 8x22B Instruct	$2.000	$6.000	14.8	53.7	33.2	65,536	Try
MI Mistral AI	Mistral Large	$2.000	$6.000	17.8	51.5	35.1	128,000	Try
G Google	Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview)	$2.000	$12.000	—	—	—	65,536	Try
G Google	Gemini 3 Pro Preview	$2.000	$12.000	91.7	89.8	90.8	1,048,576	Try
O OpenAI	o4 Mini Deep Research	$2.000	$8.000	—	—	—	200,000	Try
21 Ai21	Jamba Large 1.7	$2.000	$8.000	18.1	57.7	39.0	256,000	Try
O OpenAI	GPT-4.1	$2.000	$8.000	45.7	80.6	66.6	1,047,576	Try
P Perplexity	Sonar Reasoning Pro	$2.000	$8.000	—	—	—	128,000	Try
P Perplexity	Sonar Deep Research	$2.000	$8.000	—	—	—	128,000	Try

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

Compare Providers

o3 is available from multiple providers with different pricing and availability.

Providers

$2.000

Cheapest Input/M

$8.000

Cheapest Output/M

OpenAI

Best Price

Provider Pricing

2 models

Provider	Input $/M	Output $/M	Uptime
OpenAI Best Price	$2.000	$8.000	100.0%
V Vercel Best Price	$2.000	$8.000	-

Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

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Detailed Benchmark Scores

Intelligence

38.3 (88th pct)

Coding

38.4 (93th pct)

Math

88.3 (84th pct)

MMLU Pro

85.3 (89th pct)

GPQA

82.7 (88th pct)

LiveCodeBench

80.8 (88th pct)

AIME

90.3 (94th pct)

Aider

81.3 (91th pct)

Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard

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