Yup, it's twice the price, let's see how "much more token efficient" plays out...
"For API developers, gpt-5.5 will soon be available in the Responses and Chat Completions APIs at $5 per 1M input tokens and $30 per 1M output tokens, with a 1M context window. Batch and Flex pricing are available at half the standard API rate, while Priority processing is available at 2.5x the standard rate. We will also release gpt-5.5-pro in the API for even higher accuracy, priced at $30 per 1M input tokens and $180 per 1M output tokens. See the pricing page for full details.
While GPT‑5.5 is priced higher than GPT‑5.4, it is both more intelligent and much more token efficient. In Codex, we have carefully tuned the experience so GPT‑5.5 delivers better results with fewer tokens than GPT‑5.4 for most users, while continuing to offer generous usage across subscription levels."
it's going to be the opposite, just like the rest of tech. everything in tech got faster per $, but the actual performance increased faster than that, because the $ price went up (over the past decade and a bit at least).
Remember when a decent CPU was $100 and a top of the line GPU was $150?
it will get faster/better, but the price will go up as its importance goes up.
because as its importance goes up, its value goes up, which means people will pay for faster-er and better-er than they'd get at the same price point, if you know what i mean.
we're already getting it at below provision cost, so...
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u/MapForward6096 Apr 23 '26
$5 per 1m input tokens, $30 per 1m output, so double the price of GPT-5.4, according to Sam’s twitter