OpenAI · 400K context · updated 2026-07-28

How much does 1 million tokens cost on GPT-5.5?

Input · what you send

$5

per 1M tokens

Output · what it writes

$30

per 1M tokens

ℹ️ Long-context (>272K input) priced at 2× input / 1.5× output.

What does $10 buy on GPT-5.5?

$10 of output

333,333 tokens

  • ≈ 250,000 words written
  • ≈ 2.8 novels' worth of text
  • ≈ 33,333 lines of code generated

$10 of input

2,000,000 tokens

  • ≈ 2,999 pages read
  • ≈ 2,000 images analyzed
  • ≈ 166.7 hours of speech transcribed

For context: the cheapest model tracked here is Gemini 3 Flash at $3/1M output tokens, and the most expensive is GPT-5.5 Pro at $180 — a 60× spread.Try your own budget in the calculator →

Compare with other models

ModelInput / 1MOutput / 1Mvs GPT-5.5 (output)
GPT-5.6 Sol$5$30same
GPT-5.5 Pro$30$1806× pricier
Claude Fable 5$10$501.7× pricier
GPT-5.6 Terra$2.50$152× cheaper
Claude Opus 4.8$5$251.2× cheaper
Claude Sonnet 5$2$103× cheaper
Gemini 3.1 Pro$2$122.5× cheaper
Gemini 3.5 Flash$1.50$93.3× cheaper
GPT-5.6 Luna$1$65× cheaper
Claude Haiku 4.5$1$56× cheaper
Gemini 3 Flash$0.50$310× cheaper

GPT-5.5 context window

GPT-5.5 supports a 400K token context window. That means in a single API call, you can send up to 400K tokens of input — including your prompt, system instructions, and any documents or code you want the model to process.

In practical terms, 400K tokens is approximately:

Compare all models' context windows on the context windows page.