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GPT-5.6 Cost Calculator

GPT-5.6 is OpenAI's flagship released June 2026, succeeding GPT-5.5 at the same price with improved reasoning and tool use. 1M+ context, 128K max output, 90% caching discount.

Input

$5.00

per 1M tokens

Output

$30.00

per 1M tokens

Context window

1050K

tokens

Released

2026-06

Cutoff —

Model

✓ Exact tokenizer·$5.00 in·$30.00 out (per 1M)

Quick start with a use case

Input tokens

Output tokens

Total cost per call$0.0200

Input$0.005000

Output$0.0150

Cost comparison

Standard

$0.0200

With Caching

$0.0177

Save 11% ↓

With Batch

$0.0100

Save 50% ↓

Cutting costs? Open models start at $0.14/1M

DeepSeek, Kimi & 200+ open models on Novita AI — often 5–20x cheaper than proprietary APIs for comparable tasks.

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Detailed pricing

GPT-5.6 pricing breakdown

All pricing dimensions including caching and batch discounts.

Type	Price (per 1M tokens)	Note
Input	$5.0000	Standard input tokens
Output	$30.0000	Generated output tokens
Cached input	$0.5000	Reused prompt content
Cache write	$6.2500	First-time cache deposit (Anthropic / Gemini style)
Batch input	$2.5000	~24h delay, 50% off
Batch output	$15.0000	Batch API output

Cutting costs? Open models start at $0.14/1M

DeepSeek, Kimi & 200+ open models on Novita AI — often 5–20x cheaper than proprietary APIs for comparable tasks.

Try Novita AI

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How it compares

GPT-5.6 vs alternatives

Single-call cost (1000 input + 500 output tokens) ranked from cheapest.

Model	Per call	vs GPT-5.6
GPT-5.6 OpenAI · this page	$0.0200	—
DeepSeek V4-Flash DeepSeek	$0.000280	−99%
DeepSeek V3.2 DeepSeek	$0.000480	−98%
GPT-5 mini OpenAI	$0.001250	−94%
Mistral Large 3 Mistral	$0.001250	−94%
Gemini 3 Flash Google	$0.002000	−90%

Recommended use

When to choose GPT-5.6

GPT-5.6 shines for general-purpose tasks, image and document understanding, complex multi-step reasoning, and code generation and review. Token counts on this page are exact via the official tokenizer.

✓Context window of 1050K tokens handles entire codebases or book-length documents.

✓Prompt caching available — significant savings for repeated system prompts.

✓Batch API support for non-realtime workloads at ~50% discount.

✓Tool / function calling supported.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

GPT-5.6 costs $5.00 per 1M input tokens and $30.00 per 1M output tokens. A typical chat call (1000 input + 500 output tokens) costs approximately $0.0200. Use the calculator above to estimate your specific use case.