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OpenAI Pricing

OpenAI pricing across 1 comparison, field by field, with the source and the date we last checked beside every figure. None of its priced fields lead their roster outright.

What does OpenAI cost?

We record 4 priced fields for OpenAI across 1 comparison. These are published list figures, not negotiated rates, and each one carries the date we last checked it. None of its priced fields sit at either end of their roster, so on price alone it is a mid-pack choice — the case for or against it is made elsewhere on the profile. Pricing is the fastest-rotting data on this site. If a figure here disagrees with the vendor's own page, the vendor is right and we are stale — open the source link beside the number and tell us.

OpenAI pricing in LLM APIs

Compared against 17 other tools on the same 4 priced fields. See the whole LLM APIs table.
$/M input
$1.25 /M tok5th of 8
Vendor-claimedverified 2026-01-15source
$/M output
$10 /M tok5th of 8
Vendor-claimedverified 2026-01-15source
$/M cache read
$0.125 /M tok2nd of 5
Inferredverified 2026-01-15
Batch discount
50 %1st of 10
Vendor-claimedverified 2026-01-15source

What these numbers do and don’t include

Everything above is published list pricing. It excludes negotiated enterprise rates, startup credits, annual-commit discounts and anything behind a "contact sales" button — none of which are comparable across vendors, and all of which move.

Where a vendor prices a dimension we don't track for that category, it isn't here. The field set is deliberately different in every category, so OpenAI's pricing is only ever compared against tools priced on the same dimensions.

Pricing is the fastest-rotting data on this site, which is why every figure carries its own verification date rather than one page-level timestamp. Open the source link beside a number to check it yourself — and if it has moved, tell us.

For the non-price side of the decision — limits, regions, isolation, support — see the OpenAI profile. For what it costs to leave, see OpenAI alternatives.