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GPT Models

See Cheap Model's supported GPT text models, platform pricing, official pricing, and usage examples.

Use Cases

GPT models are a good fit for chat assistants, coding workflows, structured writing, multimodal understanding, and tool-using applications. Cheap Model expects exact model names. Family shortcuts such as gpt are not used as fallbacks.

Model List

Prices are in USD per 1 million tokens. Price is the Cheap Model price. Official is the model maker's official price. Discount compares the Cheap Model price with the official price.

ModelBest forContextPrice (In/Out)Official (In/Out)Discount
gpt-5.5High-quality chat, complex writing, multimodal understanding1M$0.71 / $4.29$5.00 / $30.0086% off
gpt-5.4General chat, code explanation, product assistants1M$0.36 / $2.14$2.50 / $15.0086% off
gpt-5.4-highGPT-5.4 tasks that need stronger reasoning1M$0.36 / $2.14$2.50 / $15.0086% off
gpt-5.4-miniLower-cost chat, summaries, background text jobs400K$0.11 / $0.64$0.75 / $4.5086% off
ModelBest forContextPrice (In/Out)Official (In/Out)Discount
gpt-5.3-codexCode generation, code review, project edits400K$0.25 / $2.00$1.75 / $14.0086% off
gpt-5.3-codex-lowLightweight coding tasks400K$0.25 / $2.00$1.75 / $14.0086% off
gpt-5.3-codex-mediumDaily coding tasks with balanced cost and quality400K$0.25 / $2.00$1.75 / $14.0086% off
gpt-5.3-codex-highMore complex code edits and reasoning work400K$0.25 / $2.00$1.75 / $14.0086% off
gpt-5.3-codex-xhighLarge changes, deep code analysis, complex planning400K$0.25 / $2.00$1.75 / $14.0086% off
ModelBest forContextPrice (In/Out)Official (In/Out)Discount
gpt-5.2Stable general GPT text and multimodal chat400K$0.25 / $2.00$1.75 / $14.0086% off
gpt-5.2-lowLightweight text and code tasks400K$0.25 / $2.00$1.75 / $14.0086% off
gpt-5.2-mediumDaily text and code tasks400K$0.25 / $2.00$1.75 / $14.0086% off
gpt-5.2-highMore complex reasoning, coding, and writing tasks400K$0.25 / $2.00$1.75 / $14.0086% off
gpt-5.2-xhighHigh-effort reasoning and long task planning400K$0.25 / $2.00$1.75 / $14.0086% off

How to Choose

Best quality

Use gpt-5.5.

Balanced quality and price

Use gpt-5.4 or gpt-5.2.

Lower-cost text work

Use gpt-5.4-mini.

Coding work

Start with the gpt-5.3-codex family.

Known reasoning level

Choose the low, medium, high, or xhigh model directly.

Request Example

Use the OpenAI-compatible /v1/chat/completions endpoint:

curl https://cheapmodel.org/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer cm_xxx" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "gpt-5.4",
    "messages": [
      {
        "role": "user",
        "content": "Turn this product requirement into engineering tasks"
      }
    ]
  }'

Notes

Use Exact Names

Always send an exact model name, such as gpt-5.4, not just gpt.

About Suffixes

The low, medium, high, and xhigh suffixes are platform presets for reasoning effort.

Pricing Changes

Prices can change with supply and official model pricing. Check the homepage pricing table before production rollout.

Related Docs

  • API Compatibility
  • Routing and Provider Policy
  • Pricing and Credits

API Compatibility

How Cheap Model supports OpenAI-compatible requests, Claude messages, and async multimodal tasks.

Routing and Provider Policy

Plan how requests are pinned to approved providers without losing control of cost or behavior.

Table of Contents

Use Cases
Model List
How to Choose
Request Example
Notes
Related Docs