Frequently asked questions
How much does the GPT-4o API cost?
GPT-4o costs $2.5 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, with cached input at $1.25 per million (50% off).
How much does a typical chat message cost with GPT-4o?
A short chat message (about 500 input and 250 output tokens) costs roughly $0.0037 with GPT-4o. At 1,000 such requests a day, that is about $112.50 per month.
Is GPT-4o cheap compared to similar models?
GPT-4o has the #21 cheapest input rate of the 26 models we track. On a mixed workload (10K input / 2K output), it costs $0.045 per request, versus $0.033 for Gemini 2.5 Pro.
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Last updated 2026-08-03. Prices verified againstOpenAI's official pricing page; see themethodology.