How much does OpenAI cost per task
These rows use OpenAI list prices only. They are not a subscription divided by a guessed number of tasks.
A$0.19US$0.13
per 1,000 repliesper 1,000 replies
Assumptions
Scenario: 225 words of ticket in, 150 words of reply out. Input 225 words counted as 300 tokens. Output 150 words counted as 200 tokens. OpenAI's token help article says that for English, 100 tokens are approximately 75 words. The same count is used for every vendor. It is not that vendor's tokenizer. Not included: reasoning tokens, tool calls, retries, cache writes, and any second request. A vendor bill can be higher than this row. Standard short-context list price on the OpenAI pricing page: US$0.10 input and US$0.50 output per 1M tokens. That page defines short context as 272,000 input tokens or fewer. No cached-input discount is applied.
Formula: (300 / 1,000,000) × US$0.10 + (200 / 1,000,000) × US$0.50.
Pricing basis
Per-token API list price (standard, short context)
Australian business notes
OpenAI's data-controls guide lists Australia at au.api.openai.com with regional storage yes and regional processing no. It says non-US regions require abuse-monitoring approval and a modified-retention amendment, and that without regional processing OpenAI may process and temporarily store customer content outside the region. An asterisk on Australia says image support needs approval for enhanced zero data retention or enhanced modified abuse monitoring. The API pricing page says data-residency endpoints cost 10% more for eligible models released on or after 5 March 2026 (https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing). The USD figure in this row is the standard list price, not that uplift. The pricing page does not mention AUD or GST. AUD in this row is USD divided by 0.6975, the RBA United States dollar rate per Australian dollar on 2026-10-19. Australian note source.
Exact figure
Calculated total: US$0.00013 (A$0.000186). These are the unrounded totals. The figure above is a shorter reading of the same amounts.
A$1.72US$1.20
per 1,000 cleanupsper 1,000 cleanups
Assumptions
Scenario: 1,500 words of pasted rows in, 1,500 words of cleaned rows out. Not a spreadsheet product's monthly plan. Input 1500 words counted as 2000 tokens. Output 1500 words counted as 2000 tokens. OpenAI's token help article says that for English, 100 tokens are approximately 75 words. The same count is used for every vendor. It is not that vendor's tokenizer. Not included: reasoning tokens, tool calls, retries, cache writes, and any second request. A vendor bill can be higher than this row. Standard short-context list price on the OpenAI pricing page: US$0.10 input and US$0.50 output per 1M tokens. That page defines short context as 272,000 input tokens or fewer. No cached-input discount is applied.
Formula: (2000 / 1,000,000) × US$0.10 + (2000 / 1,000,000) × US$0.50.
Pricing basis
Per-token API list price (standard, short context)
Australian business notes
OpenAI's data-controls guide lists Australia at au.api.openai.com with regional storage yes and regional processing no. It says non-US regions require abuse-monitoring approval and a modified-retention amendment, and that without regional processing OpenAI may process and temporarily store customer content outside the region. An asterisk on Australia says image support needs approval for enhanced zero data retention or enhanced modified abuse monitoring. The API pricing page says data-residency endpoints cost 10% more for eligible models released on or after 5 March 2026 (https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing). The USD figure in this row is the standard list price, not that uplift. The pricing page does not mention AUD or GST. AUD in this row is USD divided by 0.6975, the RBA United States dollar rate per Australian dollar on 2026-10-19. Australian note source.
Exact figure
Calculated total: US$0.0012 (A$0.00172). These are the unrounded totals. The figure above is a shorter reading of the same amounts.
A$1.00US$0.70
per 1,000 small featuresper 1,000 small features
Assumptions
Scenario: one request, 1,500 words of instruction and existing code in, 750 words of code and notes out. No agent loop. Input 1500 words counted as 2000 tokens. Output 750 words counted as 1000 tokens. OpenAI's token help article says that for English, 100 tokens are approximately 75 words. The same count is used for every vendor. It is not that vendor's tokenizer. Not included: reasoning tokens, tool calls, retries, cache writes, and any second request. A vendor bill can be higher than this row. Standard short-context list price on the OpenAI pricing page: US$0.10 input and US$0.50 output per 1M tokens. That page defines short context as 272,000 input tokens or fewer. No cached-input discount is applied.
Formula: (2000 / 1,000,000) × US$0.10 + (1000 / 1,000,000) × US$0.50.
Pricing basis
Per-token API list price (standard, short context)
Australian business notes
OpenAI's data-controls guide lists Australia at au.api.openai.com with regional storage yes and regional processing no. It says non-US regions require abuse-monitoring approval and a modified-retention amendment, and that without regional processing OpenAI may process and temporarily store customer content outside the region. An asterisk on Australia says image support needs approval for enhanced zero data retention or enhanced modified abuse monitoring. The API pricing page says data-residency endpoints cost 10% more for eligible models released on or after 5 March 2026 (https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing). The USD figure in this row is the standard list price, not that uplift. The pricing page does not mention AUD or GST. AUD in this row is USD divided by 0.6975, the RBA United States dollar rate per Australian dollar on 2026-10-19. Australian note source.
Exact figure
Calculated total: US$0.0007 (A$0.001004). These are the unrounded totals. The figure above is a shorter reading of the same amounts.
A$0.16US$0.11
per 1,000 emailsper 1,000 emails
Assumptions
Scenario: 75 words of instruction and facts in, 150 words of email out. Input 75 words counted as 100 tokens. Output 150 words counted as 200 tokens. OpenAI's token help article says that for English, 100 tokens are approximately 75 words. The same count is used for every vendor. It is not that vendor's tokenizer. Not included: reasoning tokens, tool calls, retries, cache writes, and any second request. A vendor bill can be higher than this row. Standard short-context list price on the OpenAI pricing page: US$0.10 input and US$0.50 output per 1M tokens. That page defines short context as 272,000 input tokens or fewer. No cached-input discount is applied.
Formula: (100 / 1,000,000) × US$0.10 + (200 / 1,000,000) × US$0.50.
Pricing basis
Per-token API list price (standard, short context)
Australian business notes
OpenAI's data-controls guide lists Australia at au.api.openai.com with regional storage yes and regional processing no. It says non-US regions require abuse-monitoring approval and a modified-retention amendment, and that without regional processing OpenAI may process and temporarily store customer content outside the region. An asterisk on Australia says image support needs approval for enhanced zero data retention or enhanced modified abuse monitoring. The API pricing page says data-residency endpoints cost 10% more for eligible models released on or after 5 March 2026 (https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing). The USD figure in this row is the standard list price, not that uplift. The pricing page does not mention AUD or GST. AUD in this row is USD divided by 0.6975, the RBA United States dollar rate per Australian dollar on 2026-10-19. Australian note source.
Exact figure
Calculated total: US$0.00011 (A$0.000158). These are the unrounded totals. The figure above is a shorter reading of the same amounts.
A$1.29US$0.90
per 1,000 document passesper 1,000 document passes
Assumptions
Scenario: 3,750 words of document in, 600 words of notes out. This prices a model call. It is not a legal review. Input 3750 words counted as 5000 tokens. Output 600 words counted as 800 tokens. OpenAI's token help article says that for English, 100 tokens are approximately 75 words. The same count is used for every vendor. It is not that vendor's tokenizer. Not included: reasoning tokens, tool calls, retries, cache writes, and any second request. A vendor bill can be higher than this row. Standard short-context list price on the OpenAI pricing page: US$0.10 input and US$0.50 output per 1M tokens. That page defines short context as 272,000 input tokens or fewer. No cached-input discount is applied.
Formula: (5000 / 1,000,000) × US$0.10 + (800 / 1,000,000) × US$0.50.
Pricing basis
Per-token API list price (standard, short context)
Australian business notes
OpenAI's data-controls guide lists Australia at au.api.openai.com with regional storage yes and regional processing no. It says non-US regions require abuse-monitoring approval and a modified-retention amendment, and that without regional processing OpenAI may process and temporarily store customer content outside the region. An asterisk on Australia says image support needs approval for enhanced zero data retention or enhanced modified abuse monitoring. The API pricing page says data-residency endpoints cost 10% more for eligible models released on or after 5 March 2026 (https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing). The USD figure in this row is the standard list price, not that uplift. The pricing page does not mention AUD or GST. AUD in this row is USD divided by 0.6975, the RBA United States dollar rate per Australian dollar on 2026-10-19. Australian note source.
Exact figure
Calculated total: US$0.0009 (A$0.00129). These are the unrounded totals. The figure above is a shorter reading of the same amounts.
A$2.15US$1.50
per 1,000 meeting summariesper 1,000 meeting summaries
Assumptions
Scenario, not a recording: 9,000 words of transcript in, 450 words of summary out. Input 9000 words counted as 12000 tokens. Output 450 words counted as 600 tokens. OpenAI's token help article says that for English, 100 tokens are approximately 75 words. The same count is used for every vendor. It is not that vendor's tokenizer. Not included: reasoning tokens, tool calls, retries, cache writes, and any second request. A vendor bill can be higher than this row. Standard short-context list price on the OpenAI pricing page: US$0.10 input and US$0.50 output per 1M tokens. That page defines short context as 272,000 input tokens or fewer. No cached-input discount is applied.
Formula: (12000 / 1,000,000) × US$0.10 + (600 / 1,000,000) × US$0.50.
Pricing basis
Per-token API list price (standard, short context)
Australian business notes
OpenAI's data-controls guide lists Australia at au.api.openai.com with regional storage yes and regional processing no. It says non-US regions require abuse-monitoring approval and a modified-retention amendment, and that without regional processing OpenAI may process and temporarily store customer content outside the region. An asterisk on Australia says image support needs approval for enhanced zero data retention or enhanced modified abuse monitoring. The API pricing page says data-residency endpoints cost 10% more for eligible models released on or after 5 March 2026 (https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing). The USD figure in this row is the standard list price, not that uplift. The pricing page does not mention AUD or GST. AUD in this row is USD divided by 0.6975, the RBA United States dollar rate per Australian dollar on 2026-10-19. Australian note source.
Exact figure
Calculated total: US$0.0015 (A$0.002151). These are the unrounded totals. The figure above is a shorter reading of the same amounts.
A$0.39US$0.27
Assumptions
Sixty minutes of recorded audio, priced at the published per-minute rate. 60 × US$0.0045. The model page prices transcription audio duration at US$0.0045 per minute. The file-transcription guide caps one file at 25 MB (https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/speech-to-text), so an hour may need to be split or compressed. Splitting is not given a different per-minute price on that page.
Formula: 60 × US$0.0045.
Pricing basis
Per-minute API list price
Australian business notes
OpenAI's data-controls guide lists Australia at au.api.openai.com with regional storage yes and regional processing no. It says non-US regions require abuse-monitoring approval and a modified-retention amendment, and that without regional processing OpenAI may process and temporarily store customer content outside the region. An asterisk on Australia says image support needs approval for enhanced zero data retention or enhanced modified abuse monitoring. The API pricing page says data-residency endpoints cost 10% more for eligible models released on or after 5 March 2026 (https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing). The USD figure in this row is the standard list price, not that uplift. The pricing page does not mention AUD or GST. AUD in this row is USD divided by 0.6975, the RBA United States dollar rate per Australian dollar on 2026-10-19. Australian note source.
Exact figure
Calculated total: US$0.27 (A$0.387097). These are the unrounded totals. The figure above is a shorter reading of the same amounts.
A$0.75US$0.52
per 1,000 blog postsper 1,000 blog posts
Assumptions
Scenario: 150 words of brief in, 750 words of post out. Input 150 words counted as 200 tokens. Output 750 words counted as 1000 tokens. OpenAI's token help article says that for English, 100 tokens are approximately 75 words. The same count is used for every vendor. It is not that vendor's tokenizer. Not included: reasoning tokens, tool calls, retries, cache writes, and any second request. A vendor bill can be higher than this row. Standard short-context list price on the OpenAI pricing page: US$0.10 input and US$0.50 output per 1M tokens. That page defines short context as 272,000 input tokens or fewer. No cached-input discount is applied.
Formula: (200 / 1,000,000) × US$0.10 + (1000 / 1,000,000) × US$0.50.
Pricing basis
Per-token API list price (standard, short context)
Australian business notes
OpenAI's data-controls guide lists Australia at au.api.openai.com with regional storage yes and regional processing no. It says non-US regions require abuse-monitoring approval and a modified-retention amendment, and that without regional processing OpenAI may process and temporarily store customer content outside the region. An asterisk on Australia says image support needs approval for enhanced zero data retention or enhanced modified abuse monitoring. The API pricing page says data-residency endpoints cost 10% more for eligible models released on or after 5 March 2026 (https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing). The USD figure in this row is the standard list price, not that uplift. The pricing page does not mention AUD or GST. AUD in this row is USD divided by 0.6975, the RBA United States dollar rate per Australian dollar on 2026-10-19. Australian note source.
Exact figure
Calculated total: US$0.00052 (A$0.000746). These are the unrounded totals. The figure above is a shorter reading of the same amounts.