# babbage-002 API pricing

babbage-002 is an earlier OpenAI model, still sold. It costs $0.40 per million tokens it reads and $0.40 per million it writes, $0.40 on a mix of 3 read for each 1 written. OpenAI's newest models are GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna. Below are every price OpenAI lists for it, and what 8 everyday jobs cost a month on it.

- Page: https://tecyfy.com/prices/babbage-002
- Maker: OpenAI

## Price per million tokens, in US dollars

| | Price |
| --- | --: |
| Input | $0.40 |
| Cached input | not listed |
| Cache write | not listed |
| Output | $0.40 |
| Blend, 3 read for each 1 written | $0.40 |
| Batch input | $0.20 |
| Batch output | $0.20 |
| Context window, tokens | not listed |
| Longest answer, tokens | 16K |
| Capability score (Epoch Capabilities Index; GPT-5 is 150) | not scored |

## What 8 everyday jobs cost a month

Each job at its usual runs a day, for 30 days, at the standard price.

| Job | Tokens in, out, runs a day | A run | A month |
| --- | --- | --: | --: |
| A chat question | 300, 500, 100 | 0.032 cents | 96 cents |
| A hard question, with thinking | 300, 1,400, 100 | 0.068 cents | $2.04 |
| A long report, summarised | 60,000, 2,000, 20 | 2.5 cents | $14.88 |
| A 40-turn agent task | 2,800,000, 40,000, 10 | $1.14 | $341 |
| A support bot's reply | 4,000, 300, 2,000 | 0.17 cents | $103 |
| Sort a message into a category | 250, 5, 50,000 | 0.01 cents | $153 |
| Read an invoice into fields | 1,500, 250, 1,000 | 0.07 cents | $21.00 |
| Review a pull request | 25,000, 4,500, 50 | 1.2 cents | $17.70 |

## Questions

### How much does babbage-002 cost?

babbage-002 costs $0.40 per million input tokens, the text it reads, and $0.40 per million output tokens, the text it writes, thinking included. On a mix of 3 tokens read for each 1 written, that is $0.40 per million.

### Does babbage-002 have a batch price?

Yes. With a batch, where you send many requests and collect the answers later instead of at once, babbage-002 costs $0.20 per million tokens read and $0.20 per million written.

### How good is babbage-002?

Epoch AI has no independent score for babbage-002 yet. Run the same 10 tasks of your own on it and on a model you know, and compare the answers and the bills.

### Should I still use babbage-002?

It is still sold, so it keeps working, but OpenAI's newest models are GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna. Compare its price with theirs below, and run your own tasks on the newer model before you move.

### What does a support bot cost a month on babbage-002?

At 2,000 replies a day, each reading 4,000 tokens (50 percent of them from cache) and writing 300, a support bot costs 0.17 cents a reply on babbage-002, $103 a month.

### What does an AI agent task cost on babbage-002?

One 40-turn task that reads 2,800,000 tokens in all, 90 percent of them from cache, and writes 40,000, costs $1.14 on babbage-002. At 10 tasks a day that is $341 a month.

## Sources

- [OpenAI: API prices](https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing)
- Every model's prices as [JSON](https://tecyfy.com/prices.json) or [CSV](https://tecyfy.com/prices.csv), free to use

## Compare

- [babbage-002 vs GPT-6 Astra](https://tecyfy.com/prices/compare/babbage-002-vs-gpt-6-astra.md)
- [babbage-002 vs GPT-6.1 Sol](https://tecyfy.com/prices/compare/babbage-002-vs-gpt-6-1-sol.md)
- [babbage-002 vs GPT-6 Luna](https://tecyfy.com/prices/compare/babbage-002-vs-gpt-6-luna.md)

## OpenAI's other models

- [GPT-6 Astra](https://tecyfy.com/prices/gpt-6-astra.md)
- [GPT-6.1 Sol](https://tecyfy.com/prices/gpt-6-1-sol.md)
- [GPT-6 Luna](https://tecyfy.com/prices/gpt-6-luna.md)
- [GPT-6 Sol](https://tecyfy.com/prices/gpt-6-sol.md)
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- [GPT-5.6 Terra](https://tecyfy.com/prices/gpt-5-6-terra.md)
- [GPT-5.6 Luna](https://tecyfy.com/prices/gpt-5-6-luna.md)
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