How much does Daybreak Red cost per month?

For a chatbot handling 10,000 requests a day with 1,000 input and 500 output tokens each, Daybreak Red costs about $15,000 per month at OpenAI's list prices ($12.50 per 1M input tokens, $75.00 per 1M output tokens).

Does Daybreak Red support prompt caching?

Yes. Cached input costs $1.25 per 1M tokens, compared with $12.50 for regular input. Writing to the cache costs $15.625 per 1M tokens.

How long is Daybreak Red's context window?

Daybreak Red accepts up to 400,000 tokens (400K) of context and returns up to 128,000 tokens per response.

Daybreak Red API Pricing

OpenAI · released Aug 7, 2026 · 400K context · API model ID gpt-daybreak-red-latest

Daybreak Red by OpenAI API pricing: $12.50 per 1M input tokens and $75.00 per 1M output tokens (provider list price via models.dev, Oct 10, 2026).

Prices

Daybreak Red prices, USD per 1M tokens
Price	USD per 1M tokens
Input	$12.50
Output	$75.00
Cache read	$1.25
Cache write	$15.625

OpenAI's list price for its own API, as compiled by models.dev and checked Oct 10, 2026, 09:00 UTC. Prices on cloud platforms and resellers can differ. Provider documentation

Estimated monthly cost

$15,000

per month

per day: $500.00
per request: $0.05

Cost = input tokens × input price + output tokens × output price, 30 days a month. Cached input uses the cache read price. Cache write fees are not included.

Compare this workload across models

Monthly cost by workload

Workload	Per month
Chatbot1,000 in / 500 out tokens, 10,000 requests a day	$15,000/mo
RAG8,000 in / 500 out tokens, 5,000 requests a day	$20,625/mo
Coding agent50,000 in / 2,000 out tokens, 1,000 requests a day, 80% cached input	$9,750/mo

Context and capabilities

Context: 400,000 tokens
Max output: 128,000 tokens
Input: text, image
Output: text
Knowledge cutoff: Feb 16, 2026
Open weights: No
Tool calling: Yes
Reasoning: Yes
Structured outputs: Yes

Capabilities and limits as listed by models.dev.

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Price history

No price changes since we started tracking on Oct 8, 2026.

Questions

How much does Daybreak Red cost per month?: For a chatbot handling 10,000 requests a day with 1,000 input and 500 output tokens each, Daybreak Red costs about $15,000 per month at OpenAI's list prices ($12.50 per 1M input tokens, $75.00 per 1M output tokens).
Does Daybreak Red support prompt caching?: Yes. Cached input costs $1.25 per 1M tokens, compared with $12.50 for regular input. Writing to the cache costs $15.625 per 1M tokens.
How long is Daybreak Red's context window?: Daybreak Red accepts up to 400,000 tokens (400K) of context and returns up to 128,000 tokens per response.