OpenAI pricing profile

GPT-5.6 Sol

Frontier reasoning and coding model for complex professional work.

active frontier 1,050,000 context Verified 2026-08-02

Pricing modes

USD per one million tokens. Unsupported rate types are shown as unavailable rather than treated as zero.

ModeInputCached inputCache writeOutputLong-context band
standard $5 $0.5 $6.25 $30 Input $10 / output $45
batch $2.5 $0.25 $3.125 $15 Input $5 / output $22.5
flex $2.5 $0.25 $3.125 $15 Input $5 / output $22.5
fast $10 $1 $12.5 $60 —
Worked example

100K input + 2K output

$0.56

Estimated token cost for one request. At 10,000 identical requests per month, the token subtotal would be $5,600.

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Technical limits

Model constraints

Context window1,050,000 tokens
Maximum output128,000
Long-context threshold272,000
Tokenizer profileopenai

What can change the invoice

  • Requests above 272,000 input tokens may use a higher long-context price band.
  • Cached-token savings depend on provider eligibility and correct cache implementation.
  • Eligible regional processing can add 10% to token charges.
  • Web search is separately priced at $10 per 1,000 calls in the registry.
  • Taxes, cloud marketplaces, enterprise contracts, retries, latency and quality differences are not included in this example.

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