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GPT-5 Pro

by OpenAI · openai/gpt-5-pro · #320 cheapest of 325 paid models

Prices updated Jul 22, 2026, 1:41 AM UTC · refreshed hourly

GPT-5 Pro is OpenAI’s most advanced model, offering major improvements in reasoning, code quality, and user experience. It is optimized for complex tasks that require step-by-step reasoning, instruction following, and...

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Pricing

Input

$15.00

per 1M tokens

Output

$120.00

per 1M tokens

Blended (3:1)

$41.25

3 input : 1 output

Cache read

per 1M cached tokens

Cache write

per 1M tokens

Cache & batch economics

Effective prices for GPT-5 Pro (no cache-read rate published — hits billed as normal input).

Cache hit rateEffective blended $/1MExample request*vs no cache
0%$41.25$1.65
50%$41.25$1.65−0%
90%$41.25$1.65−0%

*Example: 100K sticky context + 2K new input + 1K output. Batch discount is an approximate 50% off list rates for this provider’s batch API. Confirm on the vendor’s pricing page.

What a request costs

WorkloadInput tokensOutput tokensCost / requestCost / 1K requests
Short chat message500300$0.0435$43.50
Document summary8,0001,000$0.24$240.00
Codebase question (RAG)30,0002,000$0.69$690.00
Long-context analysis150,0005,000$2.85$2,850

Specs

Context window

400K

tokens

Max output

128K

tokens

Input modalities

image, text, file

Tokenizer

GPT