API PRICES
OpenAI · gpt-image-1
Provider prices, cheapest first
OpenAI · gpt-image-1 official price: not yet recorded. Cheapest relay: kaiycb.com, group "gpt low-price group [machine translation] (on site: gpt低价分组)" 0.75 USD_CREDIT per million total tokens (credit price, not cash, observed 2026-10-16). 85 sites have comparable prices; 164 sites list this model.Relay blended price uses 75% input and 25% output.
Price ranges per million tokens
Relay USD credit prices · Lowest 0.75 · median 7.5 · highest 62.5 · 4 quotes USD / per million tokens, site credit
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.
Unit: USD credits per 1M tokens. These are site-credit prices; actual cost depends on each site’s top-up rate.
Price range: lowest 0.75 · median 7.5 · highest 62.5 (4 quotes, USD credits per million total tokens)
Relays
Prices below are in site credit, not cash.
| # | Provider | Plan / conditions | Input ↑USD credits / 1M | Output USD credits / 1M | Cache readUSD credits / 1M | BlendedUSD credits / 1M | Details |
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| 01 | kaiycb.comAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 4 plans | gpt low-price group [machine translation]Group on site: gpt低价分组 Low price, may be cut off anytime and quality not guaranteed; if you can, use another gpt group [machine translation]Original: 低价随时拉闸并且不保证质量，有条件的用别的gpt分组 Operator pending verification | 0.6 | 1.2 | 0.15 | 0.75Median price ÷ this price: 10× | Full prices and sources |
| 02 | kaiycb.comAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 4 plans | gpt standard group [machine translation]Group on site: gpt标准分组 Stable for daily use; for high-quality, high-speed development use the high-speed gpt group [machine translation]Original: 日常稳定，追求高质量高速度开发，用高速的gpt分组 Operator pending verification | 2 | 4 | 0.5 | 2.5Median price ÷ this price: 3× | Full prices and sources |
| 03 | kaiycb.comAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 4 plans | gpt high-speed group [machine translation]Group on site: gpt高速分组 Stable, not dumbed down, rich users' pick, but consumes fast, use carefully [machine translation]Original: 稳定不降智，土豪首选，但是消耗很快慎用 Operator pending verification | 10 | 20 | 2.5 | 12.5Median price ÷ this price: 0.6× | Full prices and sources |
| 04 | kaiycb.comAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 4 plans | gpt imga2 image generation [machine translation]Group on site: gpt imga2生图 Operator pending verification | 50 | 100 | 12.5 | 62.5Median price ÷ this price: 0.1× | 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.
- test or debug group: 1 rows
- top-up or membership gated: 1 rows
- test-api.apiqik.online · openai · gpt-image-1 · Input 1.5 / Output 12 USD credits / 1M
- api.edu9.us · shareVIP-only codex [machine translation]Group on site: shareVIP专用codex · gpt-image-1 · Input 10 / Output 80 USD credits / 1M
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 398 recorded prices; 194 can be compared directly (192 ranked, 2 listed separately). Not comparable yet: price not parsed yet 128, scope of the official doc price not confirmed 25, billed per request or another unit 21, ratio looks unset 19, display unit not confirmed 3, new price under review; showing the previous one 1, tiered by rules (see Tiered prices) 1
4 recent · 0 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.
Sources not accepted this cycle and reasons
FAQ
Which API is cheapest for OpenAI · gpt-image-1?
kaiycb.com, group "gpt低价分组 (gpt low-price group)", 0.75 USD credit per million total tokens, observed 2026-10-16. 85 sites have comparable prices.
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