Agent SDK and Operator

OpenAI Agents SDK + Operator

Cheapest published

gpt-6-luna input, $0.10 per 1M tokens

Where OpenAI Agents SDK + Operator sits in the cluster

Cheapest published monthly entry rate across the 9 agentic AI platforms that publish a rate.

Where OpenAI Agents SDK + Operator sits in the cluster

OpenAI Agents SDK + Operator sits at $0.1 versus a median of $20 across 9 published rates.

Direct answer

What does Operator cost, and what does the Agents SDK bill via underlying models?

Agents SDK is free; the bill is the underlying model token spend plus per-call tool charges. The GPT-6 family now leads the price list, with gpt-6-sol at $2 / $10 undercutting the older GPT-5.4. Operator is bundled inside ChatGPT Pro at $200 per month.

Direct answer

Best for

Engineering teams that want to ship agents against OpenAI's frontier models with first-party tool calling and web search.

Tier table

Each row is a published plan. Quote-only tiers are flagged; we do not infer the price.

Plan	Monthly	Unit	Includes
Agents SDK	$0	per month	Free SDK; pay only for underlying model tokens and tool calls.
gpt-6-astra	Quote only	per 1M input / output tokens	$10.00 input, $50.00 output, $1.00 cached input. Batch $5.00 / $25.00 / $0.50.
gpt-6-sol	Quote only	per 1M input / output tokens	$2.00 input, $10.00 output, $0.20 cached input. Batch $1.00 / $5.00 / $0.10.
gpt-6-luna	Quote only	per 1M input / output tokens	$0.10 input, $0.50 output, $0.01 cached input. Batch $0.05 / $0.25 / $0.005.
GPT-5.5 (still listed)	Quote only	per 1M input / output tokens	$5.00 input, $30.00 output per 1M tokens.
Web search tool	Quote only	per 1,000 calls	$10 per 1,000 calls, or $25 per 1,000 for the non-reasoning preview.
Operator (ChatGPT Pro)	$200	per month	Included with ChatGPT Pro subscription at $200 per month.
Verified 2026-09-23. Source: developers.openai.com

Hidden costs

Hidden cost 1

Operator is included with ChatGPT Pro at $200 per month; there is no published per-seat Operator-only SKU.

Hidden cost 2

No computer-use model or tool carries a published price any more. OpenAI's pricing page listed one in mid-2026 and no longer does, so any per-token computer-use figure quoted elsewhere is stale.

Hidden cost 3

Tool calls bill on top of tokens: web search $10 per 1,000 calls, the non-reasoning web search preview $25 per 1,000, file search $2.50 per 1,000 calls plus $0.10 per GB per day of storage.

Hidden cost 4

Code-interpreter style containers bill per session, from $0.03 for a 1 GB 20-minute session to $0.12 at 4 GB.

Hidden cost 5

Batch processing halves the token rates, so a queue-tolerant agent runs at half the price of the same agent run synchronously.