Read the Cost Curve Before You Upgrade
Interpret model output-token price differences as a reason to require measured task lift before upgrading.
The same generated-answer workload can sit on very different output-token cost points. Read the curve before choosing the upgrade. Output Price Per 1M Tokens gpt-5.5 standard output Short-context listed price $30.00 gpt-5.4 standard output Half of the gpt-5.5 output price $15.00 gpt-5.4-mini standard output Fifteen percent of the gpt-5.5 output price $4.50 gpt-5.4-nano standard output About four percent of the gpt-5.5 output price $1.25 gpt-5.4-mini batch output Batch price for async volume work $2.25 Prices shown per 1M output tokens from the cited OpenAI pricing page.
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