How much does OpenAI API cost?
Usage price from
$10/minute
- Free plan
- Not stated
- Usage price
- $10/minute
- Enterprise
- Contact sales
Read from openai.com/api/pricing/ on Oct 29, 2026. Price changed? Tell usSee the line each price came from
In your favor
- Notice before price changes. At least 30 days' notice for subscription price increases (consumer Terms)
Watch out for
- Extra usage is billed. Monthly budget stops requests, but enforcement may lag and customer is responsible for overage
How you buy and get started
Self-serve + salesButtons on their site: Get started, Contact sales, Try OpenAI
- Sign up
- Self-serve API log in and sign up "Start creating with OpenAI’s powerful models."
- Setup
- Not stated
- When sales steps in
- Enterprise tiers (Scale Tier, Reserved Capacity, data residency) for larger workloads "Contact our sales team to learn more about Data residency (opens in a new window) , Scale Tier and Reserved Capacity designed for cutting-edge customers running larger workloads"
- Support
- Help Center "Help Center"
- Support
- Developer Forum "Developer Forum"
What OpenAI API does
OpenAI's API platform offers text, image and voice models priced per million tokens (or per minute for some voice models), with a Batch option at 50% off. Enterprise tiers such as Scale Tier, Reserved Capacity and data residency go through sales.
- Good for
- Developers and businesses building apps on GPT models, from high-volume small-model tasks to complex agentic workflows; larger customers needing SLAs or reserved capacity.
- Channels
- API, Playground, ChatGPT, Codex
- Main product
- OpenAI API Platform (GPT models)
- Also includes
- Text models: GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6.1 Terra, GPT-6 Luna, Image models: GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst and Flare, Voice models: GPT-Live-1, GPT-Realtime-2.1, GPT-Realtime-2.1 mini, GPT-Live-Transcribe, GPT-Transcribe, GPT-Realtime-Translate, Web search tool, Containers, Batch API
- Public API
- Yes
- MCP server
- Not stated
- Pay-per-token pricing
You will be billed at the per-token input and output prices mentioned above.
- Multiple models available
GPT-6.1 Sol
- Fine-tuning supportNot stated
- Streaming responses
A streaming speech-to-text model that transcribes speech live as the speaker talks.
- Tool and function callingNot stated
- SOC 2 compliance
OpenAI has undergone an independent SOC 2 Type 2 examination of controls relevant to Security, Availability, C
- No training on your data
We don’t train our models on your organization’s data by default.
- Discounted batch processing
Save 50% on inputs and outputs with the Batch API and run tasks asynchronously over 24 hours.
The same 8 checks appear on every tool in AI API platforms. Each tick quotes the vendor's own site.
Security and your data
| Question | Their answer | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|
| Trains AI on your data? | no | "We don’t train our models on your organization’s data by default."privacy |
| HIPAA (signs a BAA) | available | "offers a Data Processing Addendum and Business Associate Agreement for customers."privacy |
| SOC 2 | SOC 2 Type 2 | "OpenAI has undergone an independent SOC 2 Type 2 examination of controls relevant to Security, Availability, Confidentiality, and Privacy for its API and ChatGPT business product s"privacy |
| GDPR | supported | "OpenAI supports our customers’ compliance with privacy laws, including the GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, and FERPA"privacy |
| CCPA | supported | "OpenAI supports our customers’ compliance with privacy laws, including the GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, and FERPA"privacy |
| PCI | PCI-DSS for ChatGPT delegated payment processing components | "OpenAI maintains PCI-DSS compliance for the components of ChatGPT that support delegated payment processing."privacy |
| ISO 27001 | ISO/IEC 27001:2022 for the OpenAI API, ChatGPT Enterprise and Edu | "OpenAI maintains ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and ISO/IEC 27701:2019 certifications for the information security and privacy management systems supporting the OpenAI API, ChatGPT Enterprise,"privacy |
| Single sign-on | Not stated | |
| Trust center | Not stated |
Security answers are the vendor's own claims, quoted. We don't audit them.
Every plan
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | Included | Over the allowance | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-6 Astra (input)/ 1M tokens | $10per minute | – | – | – | "Input: $10.00 / 1M tokens" |
| GPT-6 Astra (output)/ 1M tokens | $50per minute | – | – | – | "Output: $50.00 / 1M tokens" |
| GPT-6.1 Sol (input)/ 1M tokens | $2per minute | – | – | – | "Input: $2.00 / 1M tokens" |
| GPT-6.1 Sol (output)/ 1M tokens | $10per minute | – | – | – | "Output: $10.00 / 1M tokens" |
| GPT-6.1 Terra (input)/ 1M tokens | $1per minute | – | – | – | "Input: $1.00 / 1M tokens" |
| GPT-6.1 Terra (output)/ 1M tokens | $5per minute | – | – | – | "Output: $5.00 / 1M tokens" |
| GPT-6 Luna (input)/ 1M tokens | $0.10per minute | – | – | – | "Input: $0.10 / 1M tokens" |
| GPT-6 Luna (output)/ 1M tokens | $0.50per minute | – | – | – | "Output: $0.50 / 1M tokens" |
| GPT-Live-1per minute | $0.05per minute | – | – | – | "$0.05 per minute / $0.00083 per second" |
| GPT-Live-Transcribeper minute | $0.02per minute | – | – | – | "$0.017 per minute / $0.00028 per second" |
| GPT-Transcribeper minute | $0per minute | – | – | – | "$0.0045 per minute / $0.00008 per second" |
| GPT-Realtime-Translateper minute | $0.03per minute | – | – | – | "$0.034 per minute / $0.00057 per second" |
| Web search/ 1k calls | $10per minute | – | – | – | "$10.00 / 1k calls" |
| Enterprise (Scale Tier, Reserved Capacity, Data residency) | Quote | – | – | – | "Contact our sales team to learn more about Data residency" |
Fine print
- Billing increment
- Not stated
- Billed beyond usage
- Monthly budget stops requests, but enforcement may lag and customer is responsible for overage "There may be a delay in enforcing the limit, and you are responsible for any overage incurred."
- Contract
- Not stated
- Refunds
- Payments non-refundable except where required by law (consumer Terms of Use) "Payments are non-refundable, except where required by law."
- Auto renew
- Paid subscriptions auto-charge on each renewal until cancelled (consumer Terms) "For paid subscriptions, we will automatically charge your payment method on each agreed-upon periodic renewal until you cancel."
- Price change notice
- At least 30 days' notice for subscription price increases (consumer Terms) "If we increase our subscription prices, we will give you at least 30 days’ notice and any price increase will take effect on your next renewal so that you can cancel if you do not "
"Not stated" means we read their pricing page and terms and they don't say.
About the company
- Legal name
- OpenAI OpCo, LLC
- Address
- 1455 3rd Street, San Francisco, CA 94158
- Online since
- Jan 19, 2007 Domain registration date
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Questions
Is OpenAI API free?
No free plan is stated on OpenAI API's pricing page.
Does OpenAI API train AI on your data?
No, according to OpenAI API: "We don’t train our models on your organization’s data by default."
Is OpenAI API HIPAA compliant?
OpenAI API says a HIPAA BAA is available.