GPT-5.6 Cyber pricing
GPT-5.6 Cyber, Reasoning-tier from OpenAI, costs $12.50 per 1M input tokens and $75.00 per 1M output tokens.
Input$12.50per 1M tokens
Output$75.00per 1M tokens
Context window400Ktokens
TierReasoningOpenAI
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Specs and pricing
| Provider | OpenAI |
| Tier | Reasoning |
| Context window | 400K tokens |
| Max output | 128K tokens |
| Input price | $12.50 / 1M tokens |
| Output price | $75.00 / 1M tokens |
| Cache write | $15.63 / 1M tokens |
| Cache read | $1.25 / 1M tokens |
| Modalities | text, image |
Note. One flat rate, with no published long-context tier. Access is restricted to OpenAI's Daybreak program; also aliased as gpt-daybreak-red-latest.
What it costs at realistic volumes
Assuming a 4:1 input:output token ratio, a common shape for chat and RAG-style workloads:
| Volume (4:1 in:out ratio) | Input cost | Output cost | Total / month |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,000,000 in / 250,000 out | $12.50 | $18.75 | $31.25 |
| 10,000,000 in / 2,500,000 out | $125.00 | $187.50 | $312.50 |
| 100,000,000 in / 25,000,000 out | $1,250 | $1,875 | $3,125 |
Cheaper alternatives
Same tier (Reasoning), a different provider, and a lower blended cost at the 4:1 ratio used above:
| Model | Provider | $/1M in | $/1M out | At the 4:1 ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trinity Large (Thinking) | Parasail | $0.22 | $0.85 | 98.6% cheaper blended |
| GPT-5.1-codex-mini | Azure OpenAI Service | $0.25 | $2.00 | 97.6% cheaper blended |
| QwQ 32B | Cloudflare Workers AI | $0.66 | $1.00 | 97.1% cheaper blended |
| DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B | SambaNova | $0.70 | $1.40 | 96.6% cheaper blended |
| Kimi K2 Thinking | Novita AI | $0.60 | $2.50 | 96.1% cheaper blended |