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922,000 max input, 128,000 max output, April 30 2026 knowledge cutoff, text and image in, text only out, one snapshot named gpt-6-astra. Requests over 272K input tokens bill input and cache at 2x and output at 1.5x. Budget that before you design a long-context agent loop, because the pricing page headline number is not what a 500K-token call costs. OpenAI
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