Openai Plans Pricing
OpenAI sells API access purely on metered token consumption — there are no seat plans, no monthly subscription tiers and no free-forever allowance on the API itself. The plan axis is the MODEL and the discount axis is the SERVICE TIER, and the two multiply: the same model costs half as much through the Batch API and twice as much in Fast mode. Prices moved down three times in the four weeks before this read (GPT-5.6 Luna -80%, Terra -20% on 2026-07-30; Sol to $4/$20 on 2026-08-21), so any cached copy of this page ages badly. Note the one uplift: regional processing adds 10% for models released on or after 2026-03-05. Access tiers (Free through Tier 5) are a RATE-LIMIT construct, not a price construct, and live in rate-limits/openai-rate-limits.yml.
Openai Plans Pricing is the pricing profile for OpenAI on the APIs.io network — every figure transcribed verbatim from the provider’s own pricing page on 2026-09-23.
| It defines 13 plans, covering usage-based tiers, including GPT-5.6 Sol — gpt-5.6-sol | $4.00 | $0.40 | $5.00 | $20.00; GPT-5.6 Terra — gpt-5.6-terra | $2.00 | $0.20 | $2.50 | $12.00; GPT-5.6 Luna — gpt-5.6-luna | $0.20 | $0.02 | $0.25 | $1.20, and 10 more. |
The page prices API or platform usage directly, priced by usage; the service is delivered as managed.
Tagged areas include AI, LLM, GPT, Foundation Models, and Usage-Based Pricing.
Plans
Flagship reasoning model. Price reduced 2026-08-21 and held through at least 2026-11-21.
- Vision
- Tool use
- Structured outputs
- Batch API (50% discount)
- Flex service tier
- Fast mode (2x standard)
- Ultrafast mode (limited preview, up to 14x faster)
General-purpose flagship. Price reduced 20% on 2026-07-30.
- Vision
- Tool use
- Structured outputs
- Batch API (50% discount)
- Flex service tier
- Fast mode (2x standard)
Low-cost model. Price reduced 80% on 2026-07-30.
- Vision
- Tool use
- Structured outputs
- Batch API (50% discount)
- Flex service tier
- Fast mode (2x standard)
Previous flagship general-purpose model.
- Vision
- Tool use
- Structured outputs
- Batch API (50% discount)
- Flex service tier
- Fast mode (2x standard)
Highest reasoning tier.
- Tool use
- Structured outputs
- Batch API (50% discount)
Prior generation flagship.
- Vision
- Tool use
- Structured outputs
- Batch API (50% discount)
- Flex service tier
- Fast mode (2x standard)
Prior generation small model.
- Vision
- Tool use
- Structured outputs
- Batch API (50% discount)
- Flex service tier
- Fast mode (2x standard)
Reasoning model.
- Tool use
- Structured outputs
- Batch API (50% discount)
Small reasoning model.
- Tool use
- Structured outputs
- Batch API (50% discount)
Legacy reasoning model. Shutdown announced 2026-04-22 for 2026-10-23.
- Tool use
- Batch API (50% discount)
- DEPRECATED
Legacy multimodal model.
- Vision
- Tool use
- Batch API (50% discount)
Legacy small multimodal model.
- Vision
- Tool use
- Batch API (50% discount)
Legacy model. Shutdown announced 2026-04-22 for 2026-10-23.
- Tool use
- DEPRECATED
Sources
- https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing
- https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing.md
- https://openai.com/api/pricing/
- https://developers.openai.com/changelog/
- https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/rate-limits
Work with this as data
Every plan here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.