gpt-5 pricing
gpt-5 is priced at $3.00 per 1M input tokens and $12.00 per 1M output tokens, with roughly 250 ms to first token and about 180 tokens/sec output throughput.
Price per 1M tokens
Input $3.00 · Output $12.00 · Output/input ratio 4.0x.
- 1M input + 1M output tokens: $15.00
- 10M input + 2M output tokens/month: $54.00
- 100M input + 20M output tokens/month: $540.00
Cheaper alternatives to gpt-5
Same workload, lower output price. Validate quality before switching.
- gemini-2.5-pro — $10.00/1M output (17% cheaper)
- llama-4.1-405b — $8.00/1M output (33% cheaper)
- gpt-5.2 — $8.00/1M output (33% cheaper)
- gpt-4.1 — $8.00/1M output (33% cheaper)
How much are you wasting on gpt-5?
Price lists are the easy part. Run the free waste scanner on your usage export to see which calls should have run on a cheaper tier, which prompts are oversized, and which retries you paid for twice — with dollars recoverable per finding.