GPT-5.5 pricing

GPT-5.5 costs $5 per million input tokens and $30 per million output tokens , with cached input at $0.5. Its context window is 272K tokens. Batch requests are discounted 50%.

Price per million tokens

Input $5
Cached input $0.5
Output $30
Context window 272K tokens
Batch discount −50%

What it costs in practice

Monthly cost for three common workload shapes, with prompt caching applied.

Workload Shape Per request Per month
Support chatbot 1.5k in / 400 out, 100k requests/month, 30% cached $0.0175 $1,748
RAG / document Q&A 12k in / 700 out, 50k requests/month, 60% cached $0.0486 $2,430
Coding agent 25k in / 2.5k out, 20k requests/month, 80% cached $0.11 $2,200

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Comparable models from other providers

Model Provider Input Output
Claude Opus 5 Anthropic $5 $25
Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic $5 $25
Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic $5 $25
Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic $5 $25

All figures verified 2026-08-18 against OpenAI's official pricing documentation . Fields the provider does not publish are shown as “—” rather than estimated.