MODEL PROOF
o1
BETTER VALUE OPTION
A stored alternative has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price.
Claude Opus 5.5 · Δ score 145.9 points · 70% lower measured price · $8.00 / 1M tokens
Gemini 3.8 Flash is a further stored option with these losses: 100K → 66K max output
- Independent LMArena score
- 1,365.8 ± 4.48 · 27,807 votes
- Context window
- 200K
- Maximum output
- 100K
- Input modalities
- text, image, file
- Output modalities
- text
- Published input price
- $15.00 / 1M tokens
- Published output price
- $60.00 / 1M tokens
- Pricing kind
- fixed
Inspect complete billing conditions and endpoint terms below.
Price from OpenAI: the cheapest offer that is serving, at standard delivery and at the maker’s precision or better, at its standard rate.
Every price dimension · USD per million tokens
| Input | $15.00/M |
|---|---|
| Output | $60.00/M |
| Cached input | $7.50/M |
| Cache write | Unknown/M |
| Cache write 1h | Unknown/M |
| Reasoning | Unknown/M |
| Web search | $0.01/call |
Who sells it
The same weights, different shops. Cheapest is not like-for-like when serving precision differs.
1 provider offers · rates, limits and conditions
Rates are USD per million tokens. Endpoint terms can differ even when the quoted price and precision match. A listed parameter is a provider declaration, not a task-success test.
| Seller | Input | Output | Precision | Uptime (1d) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAIopenai Endpoint terms
| $15.00 | $60.00 | undeclared | 100.00% |
Independent scores
| LMArena Elo | 1365.8default |
|---|
LMArena Elo under CC BY 4.0. Absence of another board is not a score of zero.
Capability
| Context window | 200K |
|---|---|
| Max output | 100K |
| Input modes | text, image, file |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2023-10-31 |
| Open weights | no |
Provenance
| Price source | openrouter.ai |
|---|---|
| Fetched | 2026-10-06 |
| Quality data | verified |
The latest and strongest model family from OpenAI, o1 is designed to spend more time thinking before responding. The o1 model series is trained with large-scale reinforcement learning to reason...
Questions this page answers
What does o1 cost?
$15.00/M in, $60.00/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription.
Does o1 have an independent quality score?
o1 has an LMArena score in this catalogue.
What beats o1?
Claude Opus 5.5 has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price.
Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for o1?
No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated.
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