LLM pricing · OpenAI

o1-pro pricing: cost per message and per user (November 2026)

In short: o1-pro (OpenAI, model id o1-pro) costs $150 per million input tokens and $600 per million output tokens. A typical chat message costs about $0.465, so a user on a $9.99 plan can send about 18 messages a month before they cost you more than they pay.

Price per million tokens

Input$150
Cached input (cache read)Not offered; billed as input
Output$600

Cost per message and per user

One message = 1,500 input tokens (system prompt and recent history) and 400 output tokens.

Messages / monthAI cost / monthMargin on $9.99
Light user30$13.95$-5.5
Typical user300$139.50$-1.3e+2
Heavy user3,000$1,395.00$-1.4e+3

Calculate with your own numbers

Cost per message
$0.47
AI cost per user / month
$139.50
Margin per user / month
$-131.01
Break-even messages / month
18

List prices, standard tier, prompts under the long-context threshold. Averages hide your heaviest users: FiscaLLM shows this per real user.

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Track o1-pro cost per user

Averages hide the users who cost you most. FiscaLLM reads token counts from each OpenAI response, prices them with the rates above (including cache reads and long prompts), and puts each user's AI cost next to what they paid through RevenueCat, Stripe or a CSV. Free and open source, with alerts and optional per-user caps.

meter.trackOpenAI(res, { userId, feature: "chat" });

See the demo dashboard or read the OpenAI cost per user guide.

Questions

How much does o1-pro cost per 1M tokens?

$150 per million input tokens, no separate cached-input price, and $600 per million output tokens (standard tier, list price).

How much does one o1-pro message cost?

About $0.465 for a 1,500-token prompt and a 400-token reply.

How many o1-pro messages can a $9.99 subscriber send?

About 18 a month before their AI cost uses up the $8.49 you keep after a 15% store fee. Past that, the user loses you money.

List prices from OpenAI's pricing page, standard tier; batch, priority and regional pricing differ. Check the provider for the latest. How these prices are audited.