Scheduled for retirement on May 15, 2027. Still available at the prices below until then.
Context
410K
Max output
128K
Serving providers
5
Cheapest input
$1.25 /1M
On-demand listed rates, OpenRouter routed quotes and Vercel reseller quotes. Enterprise commitments (committed-use discounts, provisioned throughput, negotiated rates) can be materially lower.

Benchmarks

independent evaluations · source: Artificial Analysis
Speed & latency
Output speed
117 t/s
tokens / second
Time to first token
35.59s
latency
Headline indices
49.4
of 100
Frozen Sep 9, 2026
21.6
of 100
Frozen Sep 9, 2026
Individual benchmarks · click a row for effort variants
BenchmarkBest scoreEffortCost / task
CritPt5%default—
GDPval v2Frozen Aug 18, 2026992.8default—
GPQA Diamond87%default—
Humanity's Last Exam28%default—
IFBench73%default—
LiveCodeBench87%default—
Long-Context Reasoning80%default—
MMLU-ProFrozen Aug 18, 202687%default—
MMMU-Pro75%default—
Omniscience5.4default—
Omniscience Accuracy0.4default—
Omniscience Non Hallucination0.5default—
SciCodeArtificial Analysis did not report this score in its latest run on Oct 14, 202643%——
TerminalBench Hard45%default—
TerminalBench v2.152%default—
τ-bench Banking16%default—
τ²-bench82%default—
Artificial Analysis last published scores for this benchmark on Sep 9, 2026. Scores here are frozen at that date, and models released since are not on it.
Artificial Analysis last published scores for this benchmark on Aug 18, 2026. Scores here are frozen at that date, and models released since are not on it.

Pricing by serving provider

standard tier · per 1M tokens · click a provider to expand
Serving providerInput /1MOutput /1MEndpoints
DatabricksCheapest$1.25$10.001
Standarddatabricks/databricks-gpt-5-1
ComponentUnitStandard
Text cached in/1M tok$0.125
Text cache write/1M tok$1.25
Text input/1M tok$1.25
Text output/1M tok$10.00
Azure$1.25$10.001
Gmi$1.25$10.001
OpenAI$1.25$10.001
OpenRouter$1.25$10.001
OpenRouter (batch)$0.625$5.001

Price history

listed seller prices, input and output per 1M tokens
Input Output
$0.00$5.00$10.00Nov 13Dec 2Aug 26Sep 17$10.00$1.25

Cost calculator

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$1,050
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Model IDs

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openai/gpt-5.1:batchdatabricks/databricks-gpt-5-1gmi/openai/gpt-5.1openai/gpt-5.1gpt-5.1azure/global/gpt-5.1

Frequently asked questions

GPT-5.1 pricing, context and availability

Is GPT-5.1 still available?

Yes. GPT-5.1 is scheduled for retirement on 2027-05-15.

How much does GPT-5.1 cost?

GPT-5.1 costs $1.25 per 1M input tokens from Databricks, and $10.00 per 1M output tokens from Databricks. Across 5 serving providers, input prices range from $1.25 to $1.25 per 1M tokens.

What is the context window of GPT-5.1?

GPT-5.1 accepts up to 410K tokens of context and can return up to 128K output tokens.

Which providers serve GPT-5.1?

GPT-5.1 is available from 5 serving providers, each with its own pricing and model ID. Databricks is currently the cheapest.

What can GPT-5.1 do?

GPT-5.1 supports image input (vision), tool use, reasoning, prompt caching, structured output and web search.

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