GPT 5.2 Pro API pricing
OpenAI · chat model · 272K context · ranked #1782 of 1809 by input price
What GPT 5.2 Pro costs in practice
GPT 5.2 Pro is priced at $21 per million input tokens and $168 per million output tokens and no separately published prompt-cache rate. Against the median priced chat model ($0.5/1M in), this sits at 42.0×.
Monthly cost examples
Assuming 1,200 prompt + 400 completion tokens per request unless noted, billed 30 days a month and without cache hits.
| Workload | Cost / month | Cost / day |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 requests/day | $2772 | $92.4 |
| 10,000 requests/day | $27720 | $924 |
| 100,000 requests/day | $277200 | $9240 |
| 1M summaries/month | $218397.82 | $7279.93 |
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Capabilities
Provider description
GPT-5.2 Pro is OpenAI’s most advanced model, offering major improvements in agentic coding and long context performance over GPT-5 Pro. It is optimized for complex tasks that require step-by-step reasoning,...
Cheaper alternatives
Ranked by blended cost (3× input + 1× output) — cheaper, but check context and capabilities before switching.
| # | Model | Provider | Input $/1M | Output $/1M | Cached $/1M | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gemini Exp 1114 | Google Gemini | free | free | — | 1.0M |
| 2 | Gemini Exp 1206 | Google Gemini | free | free | — | 2.1M |
| 3 | Gemma 3 27b It | Google Gemini | free | free | — | 131K |
| 4 | Gemma 4 26b A4b It | Google Gemini | free | free | — | 262K |
| 5 | Gemma 4 31b It | Google Gemini | free | free | — | 262K |
| 6 | Learnlm 1.5 Pro Experimental | Google Gemini | free | free | — | 33K |
Data provenance
This page is assembled from the sources below. Where two sources disagree, both are shown.
- Our input price: $21
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- Our output price: $168
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Frequently asked
› How much does GPT 5.2 Pro cost per 1,000 tokens?
About $0.021 for input and $0.168 for output tokens, based on the per-million rates on this page.
› Is GPT 5.2 Pro cheaper than other models?
By input price it ranks #1782 of 1809 priced chat models in this index, putting it in the more expensive half of the market.
› How often is GPT 5.2 Pro's price checked?
The dataset was last refreshed 2026-09-13 13:40 UTC. Providers can change pricing at any time — verify with OpenAI before committing to a budget.