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GPT-5.1-Codex: price, performance and context

Proprietary GPT-5.1-Codex by OpenAI costs $1.25 per 1M input and $10.00 per 1M output tokens, handles up to 400K tokens in one request (≈ 1,200 pages of text) and scores 23.7 points on the AgentKernel performance index, rank 75 of 212.

Privacy: zero data retention with one provider, not in the EU. Availability over the last 24 h: 100%.

Updated Oct 09, 2026, 17:37 UTC · openai/gpt-5.1-codex

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Key facts

Licence
Proprietary: no public weights, only through a provider API
Input / 1M tokens
$1.25
Output / 1M tokens
$10.00
Context window
400K tokens
Max. output
128K tokens
Performance index
23.7 points · rank 75 of 212
Coding index
n/a
Agentic index
n/a
Cost at your usage
$3.75 / month
Knowledge cutoff
n/a
In the catalog since
Nov 13, 2025
Capabilities
Reasoning, Vision, Tool Calling

What do you get for $10.00?

Rules of thumb from the cost calculator, base rates without caching or taxes.

TaskCost per taskFor $10.00
Chat repliesA question with a short history, a detailed answer$0.0051,900
Email draftsBullet points in, a finished email out$0.0042,300
Document summariesRead 10 pages, write a one-page summary$0.0091,100
Code reviewsReview and comment on 500 lines of code$0.017590
Book analysesAnalyse a 300-page book in one go$0.14568

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Ling 3.1 FlashinclusionAIProprietary41.1$0.00
Ling 3.0 Flash VLinclusionAIOpen24.6$0.036
Ling 3.0 FlashinclusionAIOpen20.1$0.037

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ModelLicencePerformanceYour cost / month
Solar Mini 4UpstageProprietary24.1$0.10
GPT-5.4 MiniOpenAIProprietary24.1$1.875
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423DeepSeekOpen24.4$0.35

Open alternatives

ModelLicencePerformanceYour cost / month
MiMo-V2.6-ProXiaomiOpen46.3$0.653
GLM 5.3Z.aiOpen44.8$1.24
Kimi K3Moonshot AIOpen43.6$4.40