Data as of 2026-09-20.
Price spread

GPT-5.6

openai/gpt-5.6

OpenAI· 372K ctx
API onlytool callreasoningstructured quant: unknown

spread (output, p90 ÷ p10)

— too few providers

$20.00 – $20.00 · 1 providers · max÷min 1.0×

1 provider priced · 1 offering

Cheapest / median / spread use providers that serve the model on their own capacity: first-party lab, hyperscaler, inference host.

Provider classes in the stats:
Blended $/M assumptions

blended = 90.9% input × [(1 − 70% cache) × input + 70% cache × cache-read] + 9.1% × output + cache writes (30% of uncached input) where a write price is published

A provider that publishes no cache price is blended with cache share 0 (all input at the input price) and labelled “no cache price published” — never penalised against identical in/out prices.

ProviderInputOutputCache rdBlended
Xpersona
reseller
$1.50$12.00$0.15$1.60
OpenAIfirst-partytiered
first-party lab
$4.00$20.00$0.40$3.57

Data: models.dev (MIT), snapshot 2026-09-20. Prices are vendor-published; verify before purchase. Methodology.