Scheduled for retirement on Jan 11, 2028. Still available at the prices below until then.
Context
1.1M
Max output
128K
Serving providers
5
Cheapest input
$10.00 /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
61 t/s
tokens / second
Time to first token
280.05s
latency
Headline indices
76.9
of 100
Frozen Sep 9, 2026
51.5
of 100
Frozen Sep 9, 2026
Individual benchmarks · click a row for effort variants
BenchmarkBest scoreEffortCost / task
Aa Analyst Agent0.5default—
Automation Bench0.7default—
CritPt32%default—
GDPval (normalized)Frozen Aug 18, 202654%default—
GPQA Diamond96%default—
Harvey Lab0.1default—
Humanity's Last Exam55%default—
IT-Bench SRE49%default—
Long-Context Reasoning81%default—
Mlcr OverallFrozen Sep 9, 20260.3default—
MMMU-Pro87%default—
Omniscience43.4default—
Omniscience Accuracy0.6default—
Omniscience Non Hallucination0.5default—
SciCode56%default—
Terminal Bench400.6default—
TerminalBench v2.188%default—
τ-bench Banking41%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 detail

cost beyond the standard rate · source: models.dev
Long context (>200K)
$20.00 / $75.00
input / output · per 1M

Pricing by serving provider

standard tier · per 1M tokens · click a provider to expand
Serving providerInput /1MOutput /1MEndpoints
Azure$10.00$50.001
Amazon Bedrock$10.00$50.001
OpenAICheapest$10.00$50.001
Standardgpt-6-astra
ComponentUnitStandardBatch
Text cached in/1M tok$1.00—
Text cache write/1M tok$12.50—
Text input/1M tok$10.00$5.00
Text output/1M tok$50.00$25.00
OpenRouter$10.00$50.001
VercelVercel reseller quote$10.00$50.001
OpenRouter (batch)$5.00$25.001
Vercel (flex)Vercel reseller quote$5.00$25.001
Vercel (fast)Vercel reseller quote$20.00$100.001
Vercel is dearest at $20.00 / $100.00

Price history

listed seller prices, input and output per 1M tokens
Input Output
$0.00$20.00$40.00$60.00Sep 4Sep 6Sep 10$50.00$10.00

Cost calculator

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Model IDs

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openai/gpt-6-astra:batchopenai/gpt-6-astragpt-6-astraopenai/gpt-6-astraazure/gpt-6-astraglobal.openai.gpt-6-astraopenai/gpt-6-astraopenai/gpt-6-astraopenai/gpt-6-astra-fastopenai/gpt-6-astra

Frequently asked questions

GPT-6 Astra pricing, context and availability

Is GPT-6 Astra still available?

Yes. GPT-6 Astra is scheduled for retirement on 2028-01-11.

How much does GPT-6 Astra cost?

GPT-6 Astra costs $10.00 per 1M input tokens from OpenAI, and $50.00 per 1M output tokens from OpenAI.

What is the context window of GPT-6 Astra?

GPT-6 Astra accepts up to 1.1M tokens of context and can return up to 128K output tokens.

Which providers serve GPT-6 Astra?

GPT-6 Astra is available from 5 serving providers, each with its own pricing and model ID. OpenAI is currently the cheapest.

What can GPT-6 Astra do?

GPT-6 Astra supports image input (vision), tool use, reasoning, prompt caching, structured output and web search.

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