gpt-5-nano pricing
gpt-5-nano is priced at $0.30 per 1M input tokens and $1.20 per 1M output tokens, with roughly 120 ms to first token and about 100 tokens/sec output throughput.
Price per 1M tokens
Input $0.30 · Output $1.20 · Output/input ratio 4.0x.
- 1M input + 1M output tokens: $1.50
- 10M input + 2M output tokens/month: $5.40
- 100M input + 20M output tokens/month: $54.00
Cheaper alternatives to gpt-5-nano
Same workload, lower output price. Validate quality before switching.
- claude-haiku-4 — $1.00/1M output (17% cheaper)
- llama-4-behemoth — $1.00/1M output (17% cheaper)
- amazon-nova-lite — $0.80/1M output (33% cheaper)
- mistral-small-3 — $0.80/1M output (33% cheaper)
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