OpenAI API Pricing Change — May 2026
OpenAI API Pricing Change — May 2026
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May 6, 2026 Pricing update LLM API Providers

OpenAI API pricing reviewed: 3 tiers from $0.20–$270/per million tokens in May 2026

On May 6, 2026, CostBench detected a pricing update for OpenAI API.

Before & after

Before
$270
Range: $0.02 – $270
3 plans
After
$270
Range: $0.20 – $270
3 plans
Top-tier change 0% $270 → $270/per million tokens

Current price (live)

Today's range
$0.20 – $270/per million tokens
Plans
3
Last verified
May 6, 2026
See OpenAI API pricing →

How we detected this

This change was flagged by our agent-driven pricing pipeline on May 6, 2026. We continuously re-extract each product's public pricing page and compare against our last verified snapshot; when we detect a real price movement, a second validation layer confirms the change before it's published here. See our methodology for more.

Source

platform.openai.com Official OpenAI API pricing page

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