GPT-5.5
openai The API that serves this model and sets the prices shown here. gpt-5.5 The model identifier to send in API requests. LLM Generates text from a prompt, so it can be compared with other LLMs on price and capability. Large The most capable general-purpose tier of a model family.Provider: OpenAI
Knowledge cutoff: December 2025
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Sticker prices & cost-per-token
List rates as published by OpenAI, before any volume or enterprise discounts.
$5.00
$30.00
1,050,000 tokens
128,000
tokens per response (includes reasoning tokens)
Closed weights
$2.50 / $15.00
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| Effective | Price |
|---|---|
| May 25, 2026 – present | Input cost: $5.00 / 1M, Output cost: $30.00 / 1M, Batch input cost: $2.50 / 1M, Batch output cost: $15.00 / 1M, Cached input cost: $0.00 / 1M, Cache creation cost: $0.00 / 1M, 5-minute cache write cost: $0.00 / 1M, 1-hour cache write cost: $0.00 / 1M, Reasoning output cost: $0.00 / 1M, Cache storage cost: $0.00 / 1M/hr |
History
Last change detected May 25, 2026 (5 months ago) by an automated scan.
| Date | Changed by | What changed |
|---|---|---|
| May 25, 2026 | Automated scan | Initial record created |
Source
https://openai.com/api/pricing/Comparable models
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Reliability
No reliability incidents recorded in the last 90 days.
Frequently asked questions
GPT-5.5 (OpenAI) costs $5.00 per 1M input tokens and $30.00 per 1M output tokens, as last published by OpenAI.
GPT-5.5 has a context window of 1,050,000 tokens (the maximum combined input and output it can handle in a single request).
GPT-5.5 sits in the large size tier. Size tiers run from micro (small enough to run on a device) through small, medium and large to extra large (frontier flagships), and are assigned from the model's family, naming and limits rather than its price.
GPT-5.5 can generate up to 128,000 tokens in a single response. Reasoning (thinking) tokens count toward this limit.
GPT-5.5's training data runs through December 2025, so it may not know about later events. Coolhand records the cutoff at month precision, since providers often publish only the month.
GPT-5.5 accepts image, pdf, and text as input and produces text as output, as recorded in the Coolhand catalog.
No — the weights of GPT-5.5 have not been released, so it is only available through hosted APIs.
No, GPT-5.5 is currently active with no announced deprecation date.
Call GET https://coolhandlabs.com/api/v2/inference_apis?q[source_api_eq]=openai&q[model_eq]=gpt-5.5 — free, no API key required, and scoped to just this model since source_api and model together are unique. See https://coolhandlabs.com/docs for the full REST API reference.
Coolhand also tracks GPT-4o Mini Transcribe, GPT-4o Transcribe, GPT-4o Transcribe Diarize, whisper-1, GPT-4.1 Mini (2025-04-14), and GPT-5.4 from OpenAI. Some may already be deprecated, so check each model's status alongside its current pricing.
| Model | Input cost | Output cost | Context window | Max output tokens | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-4o Mini Transcribe | $0.00/1M $0.0000000000 | $0.00/1M $0.0000000000 | — | — |
Deprecated Feb 26, 2027
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| GPT-4o Transcribe | $0.00/1M $0.0000000000 | $0.00/1M $0.0000000000 | — | — |
Deprecated Feb 26, 2027
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| GPT-4o Transcribe Diarize | $0.00/1M $0.0000000000 | $0.00/1M $0.0000000000 | — | — |
Deprecated Feb 26, 2027
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| whisper-1 | $0.00/1M $0.0000000000 | $0.00/1M $0.0000000000 | — | — |
Deprecated Feb 26, 2027
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| GPT-4.1 Mini (2025-04-14) | $0.40/1M $0.0000004000 | $1.60/1M $0.0000016000 | 1,047,576 | 32,768 | Active |
| GPT-5.4 | $2.50/1M $0.0000025000 | $15.00/1M $0.0000150000 | 1,050,000 | 128,000 | Active |
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