OpenAI
gpt-5
Release date not recorded. Accessibility not recorded. Cheapest standard rate we hold: $10 per million output tokens, at long context.
What it costs
| Tier | Kind | In | Out | Cached in | From |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| batch | text · long | $0.63 | $5 | $0.06 | seller |
| batch | text · short | $0.63 | $5 | $0.06 | seller |
| fast | text · long | $2.50 | $20 | $0.25 | seller |
| fast | text · short | $2.50 | $20 | $0.25 | seller |
| flex | text · long | $0.63 | $5 | $0.06 | seller |
| flex | text · short | $0.63 | $5 | $0.06 | seller |
| standard | text · long | $1.25 | $10 | $0.13 | seller |
| standard | text · short | $1.25 | $10 | $0.13 | seller |
per million tokens, US dollars. * marks a rate from a single registry or two that disagree — the best available number rather than a confirmed one. Every other row is confirmed against a seller or a licensed index.
What it scores, by house
This model is not in Epoch's catalogue under a name we can match exactly, so we hold no scores for it. The match is exact after normalisation and never fuzzy, because a loose one would eventually price one model as another.
What retires, and when
- deprecation — 2026-07-23
- deprecation — 2026-07-23
- deprecation — 2026-07-23
- deprecation — 2026-07-23
- deprecation — 2026-07-23
- deprecation — 2026-07-23
- deprecation — 2026-07-23
- deprecation — 2026-08-10, replaced by gpt-5.6-sol
- deprecation — 2026-08-10, replaced by gpt-5.6-sol
- deprecation — 2026-10-01, replaced by gpt-5.6-cyber
- deprecation — 2026-12-11, replaced by gpt-5.6-terra
- deprecation — 2026-12-11, replaced by gpt-5.6-sol
- deprecation — 2026-12-11, replaced by gpt-5.6-luna
- deprecation — 2026-12-11, replaced by gpt-5.6-sol (reasoning.mode: pro)
Headlines that name it
- Fine-tuned 4B model edges past GPT-5.6 on a transit kiosk benchmark
- OpenAI says GPT-5.6 Sol ran quantum experiments for an MIT researcher
- GPT-6 Astra beats GPT-5.6 on SVG image quality in hands-on test
- GPT-5.6 Sol users report the model deleted files on Macs
- OpenAI confirms GPT-5.6 Sol deletes some users' files
- Latent state tokens let a 14B language model match GPT-5.1 on chess collaboration tasks
Matched by the model's name appearing in our headline, literally. There is no link from a story to a model in our data, so this is a search result rather than a claim that the story is about it.
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