GPT-5.5 Price Hike: Up to 92% More Expensive Than Predecessor
The latest iteration of OpenAI's GPT model, GPT-5.5, comes with a significant price increase, ranging from 49% to 92% more than its predecessor, depending on input length. This change is likely to impact developers and businesses relying on the model for various applications.
OpenAI doubled GPT-5.5's list price compared to GPT-5.4, claiming shorter responses would offset the increase. An OpenRouter analysis of real usage data tells a different story: actual costs rose 49 to 92 percent depending on input length. Anthropic hiked Opus 4.7 prices too—and with both companies eyeing IPOs, the trend is unlikely to stop. The article GPT-5.5 costs 49 to 92 percent more than its predecessor, depending on the input length appeared first on The Decoder.