babbage-002

OpenAI retired babbage-002 on 28 Sep 2026. Listed rates: $0.40 in / $0.40 out per 1M tokens.

Updated October 8, 2026

Input / 1M

$0.40

Output / 1M

$0.40

Cached Input

—

Context Window

16K

Standard Input

$0.40 / 1M

Base prompt input rate

Standard Output

$0.40 / 1M

Completion output rate

Prompt Caching -50%

50% Off

Cached prompt context

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$0.20 / 1M

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OpenAI retired babbage-002 on 28 Sep 2026.

OpenAI recommends gpt-5.6-terra. At the same token volume, gpt-5.6-terra costs 400% more per 1M input tokens and 2900% more per 1M output tokens.

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Flagship models

All rates listed in USD per 1 Million (1M) tokens unless noted

StandardBatch

Pricing Metric / Parameter	Standard RATE (per 1M)	Batch RATE (per 1M)
Short context input	$0.40	$0.20
Short context cached input	-	-
Short context cache writes	-	-
Short context output	$0.40	$0.20
Long context input	-	-
Long context cached input	-	-
Long context cache writes	-	-
Long context output	-	-

Finetuning

All rates listed in USD per 1 Million (1M) tokens unless noted

StandardBatch

Pricing Metric / Parameter	Standard RATE (per 1M)	Batch RATE (per 1M)
Training	$0.40	$0.40
Input	$1.60	$0.80
Cached input	-	-
Output	$1.60	$0.90

Source: OpenAI official pricing page, verified 2026-10-08. Prices in USD per 1M tokens.

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