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OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)

OpenAI has reduced the price of its GPT-5.6 Sol flagship model by 50% for input and output tokens, with the promotional pricing available at least through November 21, 2026. The price cut applies to both short and long context windows, lowering input from $4.00 to $2.00 per million tokens and output from $20.00 to $10.00 per million tokens for short context.

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OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)
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Flagship models

Short context Long context
Model Input Cached input Cache writes Output Input Cached input Cache writes Output
gpt-5.6-sol $4.00 $0.40 $5.00 $20.00 $8.00 $0.80 $10.00 $30.00
gpt-5.6-terra $2.00 $0.20 $2.50 $12.00 $4.00 $0.40 $5.00 $18.00
gpt-5.6-luna $0.20 $0.02 $0.25 $1.20 $0.40 $0.04 $0.50 $1.80

Your dataguide for supported regions and processing details. OpenAI models in Amazon Bedrockare billed through AWS and may differ from direct OpenAI pricing.

Priority processing was renamed Fast mode on July 30, 2026. You can use either

service_tier: "priority"

or service_tier: "fast"

in your API requests. Learn more about Fast mode. GPT-5.6 Sol’s promotional pricing is available at least through November 21, 2026.

Short context Long context
Model Input Cached input Cache writes Output Input Cached input Cache writes Output
gpt-5.6-sol $2.00 $0.20 $2.50 $10.00 $4.00 $0.40 $5.00 $15.00
gpt-5.6-terra $1.00 $0.10 $1.25 $6.00 $2.00 $0.20 $2.50 $9.00
gpt-5.6-luna $0.10 $0.01 $0.125 $0.60 $0.20 $0.02 $0.25 $0.90

Your dataguide for supported regions and processing details.

Short context Long context
Model Input Cached input Cache writes Output Input Cached input Cache writes Output
gpt-5.6-sol $2.00 $0.20 $2.50 $10.00 $4.00 $0.40 $5.00 $15.00
gpt-5.6-terra $1.00 $0.10 $1.25 $6.00 $2.00 $0.20 $2.50 $9.00
gpt-5.6-luna $0.10 $0.01 $0.125 $0.60 $0.20 $0.02 $0.25 $0.90

Your dataguide for supported regions and processing details.

Short context Long context
Model Input Cached input Cache writes Output Input Cached input Cache writes Output
gpt-5.6-sol $8.00 $0.80 $10.00 $40.00 $16.00 $1.60 $20.00 $60.00
gpt-5.6-terra $4.00 $0.40 $5.00 $24.00 $8.00 $0.80 $10.00 $36.00
gpt-5.6-luna $0.40 $0.04 $0.50 $2.40 $0.80 $0.08 $1.00 $3.60

Your dataguide for supported regions and processing details. Cyber models

Short context Long context
Model Input Cached input Cache writes Output Input Cached input Cache writes Output
gpt-5.6-sol $4.00 $0.40 $5.00 $20.00 $8.00 $0.80 $10.00 $30.00
| gpt-5.6-cyber | $12.50 | $1.25 | $15.625 | $75.00 | - | - | - | - |

`daybreak-blue-latest`

and `daybreak-red-latest`

are aliases that currently point to gpt-5.6-sol

and

gpt-5.6-cyber , respectively. As new frontier models are released through the Daybreak program, these aliases will be updated to point to the latest models, with pricing adjusted to match each underlying model.

Multimodal models

Realtime and audio generation models

Model Modality Input Cached input Output / cost
gpt-realtime-2.1 Audio $32.00 $0.40 $64.00
Text $4.00 $0.40 $24.00
Image $5.00 $0.50 -
gpt-realtime-2.1-mini Audio $10.00 $0.30 $20.00
Text $0.60 $0.06 $2.40
Image $0.80 $0.08 -

Image generation models

Model Modality Input Cached input Output
gpt-image-2 Image $8.00 $2.00 $30.00
Text $5.00 $1.25 -
Model Modality Input Cached input Output
gpt-image-2 Image $4.00 $1.00 $15.00
Text $2.50 $0.625 -

Video generation models

Model Size Portrait Landscape Price per second
sora-2 720p 720x1280 1280x720 $0.10
sora-2-pro 720p 720x1280 1280x720 $0.30
1024p 1024x1792 1792x1024 $0.50
1080p 1080x1920 1920x1080 $0.70
Model Size Portrait Landscape Price per second
sora-2 720p 720x1280 1280x720 $0.05
sora-2-pro 720p 720x1280 1280x720 $0.15
1024p 1024x1792 1792x1024 $0.25
1080p 1080x1920 1920x1080 $0.35

Transcription models

| Model | Use case | Input | Output | Estimated cost |

|---|---|---|---|---|
| gpt-realtime-translate | Live translation | - | - | $0.034 / minute |
| gpt-live-transcribe | Live transcription | - | - | $0.017 / minute |
| gpt-realtime-whisper | Live transcription | - | - | $0.017 / minute |

| gpt-transcribe | Transcription | - | - | $0.0045 / minute | | gpt-4o-transcribe | Transcription | $2.50 | $10.00 | $0.006 / minute | | gpt-4o-mini-transcribe | Transcription | $1.25 | $5.00 | $0.003 / minute |

Tools

Tool Details Pricing
Web search Web search (all models) $10.00 / 1k calls + Search content tokens billed at model rates.
Image Web search (all models) $10.00 / 1k calls + Search content tokens billed at model rates.
Web search preview (reasoning models, including gpt-5 , o-series ) $10.00 / 1k calls + Search content tokens billed at model rates.
Web search preview (non-reasoning models) $25.00 / 1k calls + Search content tokens are free.
Containers Hosted Shell and Code Interpreter 1 GB $0.03, 4 GB $0.12, 16 GB $0.48, 64 GB $1.92 per 20-minute session per container.
File search Storage $0.10 / GB per day (1 GB free)
Tool call $2.50 / 1k calls
Agent Kit ChatKit file and image upload storage $0.10 / GB-day after 1 GB free per account per month

Specialized models

Category Model Input Cached input Output
ChatGPT chat-latest $5.00 $0.50 $30.00
Codex gpt-5.3-codex $1.75 $0.175 $14.00
Category Model Input Cached input Output
Codex gpt-5.3-codex $3.50 $0.35 $28.00

Finetuning

OpenAI is winding down the fine-tuning platform. The platform is no longer accessible to new users, but existing users of the fine-tuning platform will be able to create training jobs for the coming months.

All fine-tuned models will remain available for inference until their base models are deprecated. The full timeline is

here. | Model | Training | Input | Cached input | Output |

|---|---|---|---|---|
| o4-mini-2025-04-16 | $100.00 / hour | $4.00 | $1.00 | $16.00 |

| o4-mini-2025-04-16 with data sharing | $100.00 / hour | $2.00 | $0.50 | $8.00 |

| Model | Training | Input | Cached input | Output |

|---|---|---|---|---|
| o4-mini-2025-04-16 | $100.00 / hour | $2.00 | $0.50 | $8.00 |

| o4-mini-2025-04-16 with data sharing | $100.00 / hour | $1.00 | $0.25 | $4.00 |

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