OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano
🇺🇸 OpenAI · GPT-5 Nano
Overview
OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano is a large language model API from OpenAI, part of its GPT-5 Nano model family. At $0.050 per million input tokens and $0.400 per million output tokens, it sits in the budget tier — among the cheaper options for high-throughput or cost-sensitive workloads. Output tokens cost about 8× as much as input, so prompt-heavy workloads run noticeably cheaper than generation-heavy ones. A large 400K-token context window (≈600 pages of text) lets it take in whole books, large codebases, or lengthy transcripts in a single call. Beyond plain text it also accepts Image, File input, so it can be applied to multimodal tasks rather than text alone. On Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index it scores 20 (D grade), a useful proxy for its general reasoning strength relative to the other models tracked here. All prices on this page reflect OpenRouter's routed rates and are re-synced automatically every day; confirm against the provider's official pricing before committing to production.
| Dimension | Unit | Price (USD) |
|---|---|---|
| Input | per 1M tokens | $0.050 |
| Output | per 1M tokens | $0.400 |
| Cached Input | per 1M tokens | $0.010 |
| Web Search | per search | $0.010 |
- Provider
- OpenAI
- Model Family
- GPT-5 Nano
- Version String
- openai/gpt-5-nano
- Status
- Active
- Modality
- Text, Image, File
- Context Window
- 400,000 tokens
- Output Limit
- — tokens
Index Metrics
Cross-domain capability indexes evaluated by Artificial Analysis — Artificial Analysis
Benchmark Scores
Data source: Artificial Analysis
Performance Metrics
Real-world benchmarks, updated every 72 hours by Artificial Analysis — Artificial Analysis
Use Case Analysis
Model strengths, weaknesses, and ideal use cases based on benchmarks and official documentation
Strength
- Ultra-Low Cost $0.05 per 1M input tokens, 20x cheaper than GPT-5. Official
- Fastest Inference Highest throughput in GPT-5 family. Optimized for real-time, ultra-low latency environments. Official
Best For
- Classification & Extraction Sentiment analysis, intent detection, entity extraction, content moderation at massive scale. Official
- Real-time Applications Routing, autocomplete, lightweight inference where latency is critical. Official
Not Recommended
- Complex Coding Tasks For code generation or review, use GPT-5 mini or GPT-5. Official
90-Day Price Trend
Input / Output price (USD per 1M tokens)
Past 90 days of records; every price change is shown here
| Date | Dimension | Price (USD) | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $0.400 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $0.050 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $0.400 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $0.050 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $0.400 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $0.050 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $0.400 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $0.050 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $0.400 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $0.050 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $0.400 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $0.050 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $0.400 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $0.050 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $0.400 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $0.050 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $0.400 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $0.050 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $0.400 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $0.050 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $0.400 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $0.050 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $0.400 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $0.050 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.010 | OpenRouter |
Key Insights
Key data points from this page for quick reference and citation.
- OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano Input price: $0.05/M tokens
- OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano Output price: $0.4/M tokens
- Context window: 400,000 tokens
- Provider: OpenAI
- Model family: GPT-5 Nano
- Modalities: Text, Image, File
- Data source: OpenRouter, updated daily