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OpenAI o1

Flagship deep reasoning model trained with reinforcement learning for frontier science, math, and coding.

Released: Dec 5, 2024
Last Verified: Aug 10, 2026
Context Window

200k

Tokens

Max Output

100k

Output limit

Architecture

Reinforcement Learning Reasoning Model

Model family

Parameters

Not Disclosed

Total / Active

Input Token Cost

$15.00

Per 1M tokens

Output Token Cost

$60.00

Per 1M tokens

Model Overview

OpenAI o1 generates private chain-of-thought tokens before responding, allowing it to think through complex multi-step reasoning, self-correct errors, and excel in competitive mathematics (AIME), scientific research (GPQA Diamond), and coding.

Developer Implementation Notes

Reasoning tokens are billed as output tokens ($60/MTok). Supports reasoning effort parameters (`low`, `medium`, `high`).

Key Strengths

  • Superhuman-level performance on competition mathematics (AIME) and GPQA
  • Excels at intricate logic puzzles, algorithm design, and security audit
  • 200k context window with up to 100k output tokens

Limitations & Boundaries

  • Premium pricing ($15 / $60 per million tokens)
  • Higher time-to-first-token latency due to chain-of-thought generation

Capabilities & Modalities

Modalities:text, image
Reasoning Chains:Supported
Tool / Function Calling:Supported
Structured Outputs:Supported
Fine-Tuning:No
Local Deployment:Cloud Only

Best Production Use Cases

  • Frontier scientific research and biotech modeling
  • Complex algorithmic design and cryptography analysis
  • Complex legal contract logic verification

Verified Benchmark Results

Standardized evaluations with methodology notes and authoritative citation links.

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Coding Official
SWE-bench Verified

48.9%

Pass@1, high reasoning effort without external agent scaffolding

Reasoning & Math Official
AIME (2024/2025)

83.3%

Pass@1 with high reasoning effort (12.5/15 problems solved)

Reasoning & Math Official
GPQA Diamond

75.7%

Zero-shot with reasoning tokens

Coding Official
LiveCodeBench Pro

63.8%

Pass@1 on hard competitive problems

General Knowledge & Frontier Official
Humanity's Last Exam (HLE)

19.5%

Zero-shot with high reasoning tokens on CAIS benchmark

Reasoning & Math Official
ARC-AGI

75.7%

Pass@2 with test-time search scaffolding

Pricing & Inference Cost Calculator

Token Cost Estimator – OpenAI o1

Calculate projected inference spend with prompt caching

Quick Workload Presets

Input Tokens / Req2,000
100100k200k
Output Tokens / Req500
5016k32k
Number of Requests1,000
125k50k
Cache Hit Rate0%
0% (No cache)50%90% (Max)
Total Input Spend

$30.0000

2.00M input tokens

Total Output Spend

$30.0000

0.50M output tokens

Estimated Total Cost

$60.00

Avg: $0.06000 / req

Rates: $15.00 in / $60.00 out per million tokens (OpenAI API)Last verified: Aug 10, 2026

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