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GPT-5.6 Cyber

by OpenAI

Current new · 11d flagship expensive tier
Availability: Sold only through OpenAI's Daybreak Red tier: the model requires separate approval and provisioning, so this rate applies to approved defenders rather than to a general API account. OpenAI's rate card prices it publicly all the same.

Today's price · per 1M tokens

Input

$12.50

per 1M tokens

Output

$75.00

per 1M tokens

Blended

$28.13

blended $/1M — 3:1 weighted input:output

Cached input

$1.25

10% of input — prompt caching

How this price is scoped: OpenAI's rate card lists no long-context tier for this model — the long-context columns that Sol, Terra and Luna fill are blank for it. Cache writes bill at 1.25x the uncached input rate.

Source: official OpenAI pricing · read Aug 17, 2026 MODELPRICEWATCH.COM · 2026-08-18

Price receipt

We read OpenAI's own pricing page on Aug 17, 2026 and found gpt-5.6-cyber listed with a price on the same row — that read is where the number above comes from, recorded as a new model. We keep the page text we read; its content hash is 8f20eebc5e.

Overview

OpenAI's purpose-trained cybersecurity model, for approved defenders doing authorized vulnerability research, exploit validation and security testing. Built on GPT-5.6 Sol and reached only through Daybreak Red, OpenAI's approval-gated access tier; the public alias daybreak-red-latest currently points at this model. 400K context window, 272K max input, 128K max output, text + image input, text output. At $12.50/$75 per 1M tokens (cached input $1.25) it is the most expensive model on OpenAI's rate card.

Capabilities

struck through = not supported
Input 2/5
Text ✓ Image ✓ Audio Video PDF
Output 1/5
Text ✓ Image Audio Video Embedding
Features 4/9
Prompt caching ✓ Reasoning ✓ Coding Fast inference Long context ✓ Open weights Multimodal ✓ Web search Realtime

Specifications

Provider
OpenAI
Context window
400K tokens
Modality
text, image
Parameters
Proprietary
Open source
No — proprietary
Released
Aug 7, 2026
Status
Current
Last updated
Aug 17, 2026
Tags
reasoningmultimodalflagshipcaching

Availability verified: Aug 17, 2026 — listed on OpenAI's own page