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OpenAI · gpt-5-nano

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Official (cash)
Input 0.05 / output 0.4 USD/million tokensOpenAI ·
Lowest inference provider (cash)
Input 0.05 / output 0.4 USD/million tokensOpenRouter · Aggregator · same as official ·
Lowest relay (credit)
0.05 USD credit/million total tokenstop.taluna.ai "OpenAI" ·

Official and inference-provider prices are cash; relay prices are site credit (USD credit or CNY credit), a different unit, compared separately. Relay prices are per million total tokens at 75% input and 25% output.

OpenAI · gpt-5-nano official price: input 0.05, output 0.4 USD per million tokens (OpenAI, observed 2026-10-17). Cheapest inference provider: OpenRouter, input 0.05, output 0.4 USD per million tokens. Cheapest relay: top.taluna.ai, group "OpenAI" 0.05 USD_CREDIT per million total tokens (credit price, not cash, observed 2026-10-16). 90 sites have comparable prices; 156 sites list this model.Relay blended price uses 75% input and 25% output.

Price ranges per million tokens

Official cash prices · Lowest 0.1375 · median 0.1375 · highest 0.1375 · 1 quotes USD / per million tokens

Inference provider cash prices · Lowest 0.1375 · median 0.1375 · highest 0.1375 · 1 quotes USD / per million tokens

Relay USD credit prices · Lowest 0.05 · median 0.1375 · highest 0.9625 · 48 quotes USD / per million tokens, site credit

Relay CNY credit prices · Lowest 0.0715 · median 0.319 · highest 1.659 · 16 quotes CNY / per million tokens, site credit

Official price

ProviderInputOutputCache readCache writeUnitObservedConditions and source
OpenAI0.050.40.005—USD / 1M tokens
Official source

Official prices are the vendor's cash prices. Inference providers also list cash prices and can be compared directly. Relays list prices in site credit; what you actually pay depends on each site's top-up rate, so they cannot be compared with official prices directly.

Inference providers

ProviderInputOutputCache readCache writeUnitObservedConditions and sourcevs official
OpenRouter · Aggregator0.050.40.005—USD / 1M tokens
Official source
Input 0% · Output 0%

Unit: USD credits per 1M tokens. These are site-credit prices; actual cost depends on each site’s top-up rate.

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Blended price = input × 75% + output × 25%, without cache.

Price range: lowest 0.05 · median 0.1375 · highest 0.9625 (48 quotes, USD credits per million total tokens)

sites have comparable prices90156 sites list this model; approximately 55 operators
Lowest input price0.03USD credits / 1M
Median of each provider’s lowest price0.05USD credits / 1M

Relays

Prices below are in site credit, not cash.

#ProviderPlan / conditionsInput ↑USD credits / 1MOutput USD credits / 1MCache readUSD credits / 1MBlendedUSD credits / 1MDetails
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03kg-api.cloudAsk or discussCollected:
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default
Default group [machine translation]Original: 默认分组
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0.050.40.0050.1375Median price ÷ this price: 1×Full prices and sources
04zzshu.ccAsk or discussCollected:
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Azure-GPT
Azure-GPT no distillation [machine translation]Original: Azure-GPT不可蒸馏
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0.10.80.010.275Median price ÷ this price: 0.5×Full prices and sources
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Hodgepodge [machine translation]Group on site: 大杂烩
Name on site: openai/gpt-5-nano

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0.0250.20.00250.06875Median price ÷ this price: 2×Full prices and sources
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Hodgepodge [machine translation]Group on site: 大杂烩

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Evan
Evan

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GZD
GZD

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Premium
Premium

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SSVIP
SSVIP

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XM
XM

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XMGMI
XMGMI

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XMboss
XMboss

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cc
cc

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claude_official [machine translation]Group on site: claude_官
claude_official [machine translation]Original: claude_官

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default

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ggl_an
ggl_an

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haiwai
haiwai

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hershe
hershe

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minimax
minimax

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temp
temp

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tieta
tieta

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vip
vip

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Enterprise users [machine translation]Group on site: 企业用户
Enterprise users [machine translation]Original: 企业用户

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default

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svip
svip

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0.10.80.020.275Median price ÷ this price: 0.5×Full prices and sources
Special groups · 2 rows · not ranked

These plans are marked as test, internal, disabled, gated by top-up or membership, or have a near-zero ratio. They may not be purchasable or stable, so they are listed separately and left out of the ranking and statistics.

  • near-zero-ratio group: 1 rows
  • test or debug group: 1 rows
  • zen-ai.top · free · gpt-5-nano · Input 0.00005 / Output 0.0004 USD credits / 1M
  • test-api.apiqik.online · openai · gpt-5-nano · Input 0.015 / Output 0.12 USD credits / 1M
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How this ranking works

All per-token prices: 97,455 prices from 871 sites (about 765 companies). 89,631 are ranked, from 861 sites (about 755 companies); 7,824 more are listed separately and not ranked. Prices collected up to 2026-10-17.

This model has 488 recorded prices; 246 can be compared directly (244 ranked, 2 listed separately). Not comparable yet: price not parsed yet 178, scope of the official doc price not confirmed 24, tiered by rules (see Tiered prices) 18, display unit not confirmed 14, ratio looks unset 2, billed per request or another unit 1

196 recent · 16 stale (older than 10 days, or not updated by this refresh) · 0 unverified timestamps. Minimum and median only count recent paid prices; older prices stay in the table. 0 zero-valued pairs are separately unverified, without proof of free eligibility. Timing does not verify payment, upstream identity or quality.

Prices are converted to site credits using each site’s published ratio. What you actually pay depends on its top-up rate. Input, output and cache prices in each row come from the same plan. Several sites run by the same company take one place in the ranking: its cheapest plan, with the other sites listed under it. We judge “same company” by identical prices, status pages or homepage code; this is not a legal finding. To see every site’s prices, choose “All plans” or filter by provider.

“Self-declared unofficial channel” means the plan name itself says “reverse-engineered” or similar. We have not verified their source or quality. Minimum and median only count regular plans.

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FAQ

Which API is cheapest for OpenAI · gpt-5-nano?

top.taluna.ai, group "OpenAI", 0.05 USD credit per million total tokens, observed 2026-10-16. 90 sites have comparable prices.

What is the official price for OpenAI · gpt-5-nano?

Input 0.05, output 0.4 USD per million tokens, checked 2026-10-17. Lowest inference provider: OpenRouter, input 0.05, output 0.4 USD per million tokens. Input 0% higher than official.

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