OpenAI
gpt-5.5 API Pricing
OpenAI charges $5.00 per 1M input tokens and $30.00 per 1M output tokens. Verified 2026-06-11 against the official OpenAI pricing page.
Short-context rate; long-context tier is $10 in / $45 out
Input / 1M tokens
$5.00
Output / 1M tokens
$30.00
Context window
Not published
What it costs to run
| Workload | Tokens | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Single short call | 2K in, 500 out | $0.025 |
| Typical chat turn | 10K in, 1K out | $0.080 |
| Long document pass | 100K in, 2K out | $0.560 |
| 1,000 chat turns | 10M in, 1M out | $80.00 |
Price history
No price move recorded for gpt-5.5 since tracking began on 2026-06-11. Every future change lands here with the before and after.
How it compares
Ranked on the blended cost of a typical chat turn (10K in, 1K out), not the input rate alone.
| Anthropic | claude-opus-4-8 | $0.075 per turn |
| Anthropic | claude-opus-4-6 | $0.075 per turn |
| Anthropic | claude-opus-5 | $0.075 per turn |
| Anthropic | claude-opus-4.5 | $0.075 per turn |
| Anthropic | claude-opus-4-7 | $0.075 per turn |
| OpenAI | gpt-5.5 | $0.080 per turn |
| OpenAI | gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09 | $0.130 per turn |
| Anthropic | claude-mythos-5.1 | $0.150 per turn |
| Anthropic | claude-fable-5 | $0.150 per turn |
| Anthropic | claude-fable-5.1 | $0.150 per turn |
| Anthropic | claude-mythos-5 | $0.150 per turn |
Head to head
Full cost breakdowns against the models gpt-5.5 is usually weighed against, including the workload shape where the cheaper option flips.
TechFastForward coverage of gpt-5.5
What we wrote when this model, or the rest of its line, was news.
- OpenAI Cuts ChatGPT Limits for 1 Billion Free Users2026-08-08
- OpenAI GPT-5.6 Cuts Frontier Model Costs 67 Percent2026-07-12
- Z.ai GLM-5.2 Beats GPT-5.5 on Coding Benchmarks2026-07-03
- Fable 5 Shutdown Reveals AI Defenders Need Banned Models2026-06-15
- OpenAI Wins Oracle Cloud Credits for Codex in 20262026-06-11
- Anthropic Fable 5 Beats All AI Rivals on Code 20262026-06-10
Free JSON API
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curl https://techfastforward.com/api/data/llm-pricingMaintained by Jordan Hale, TechFastForward. Prices are read daily from the official provider page and recorded only when they move. See every tracked model on the LLM API Pricing Tracker.