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o3: price, performance and context
Proprietary o3 by OpenAI costs $2.00 per 1M input and $8.00 per 1M output tokens, handles up to 200K tokens in one request (≈ 600 pages of text) and scores 20.2 points on the AgentKernel performance index, rank 97 of 212.
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Updated Oct 09, 2026, 16:49 UTC · openai/o3
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Key facts
- Licence
- Proprietary: no public weights, only through a provider API
- Input / 1M tokens
- $2.00
- Output / 1M tokens
- $8.00
- Context window
- 200K tokens
- Max. output
- 100K tokens
- Performance index
- 20.2 points · rank 97 of 212
- Coding index
- n/a
- Agentic index
- n/a
- Cost at your usage
- $4.00 / month
- Knowledge cutoff
- Jun 2024
- In the catalog since
- Apr 16, 2025
- Capabilities
- Reasoning, Vision, Tool Calling, Files
What do you get for $10.00?
Rules of thumb from the cost calculator, base rates without caching or taxes.
| Task | Cost per task | For $10.00 |
|---|
| Chat repliesA question with a short history, a detailed answer | $0.005 | 2,200 |
| Email draftsBullet points in, a finished email out | $0.004 | 2,700 |
| Document summariesRead 10 pages, write a one-page summary | $0.011 | 940 |
| Code reviewsReview and comment on 500 lines of code | $0.019 | 530 |
| Book analysesAnalyse a 300-page book in one go | $0.216 | 46 |
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