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GPT-5.5 PRICE INCREASE: WHAT IT ACTUALLY COSTS

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Summary from the TLDR AI newsletter

GPT-5.5 launched with a 2x price increase over GPT-5.4. The price increase is mitigated by the model generating fewer completion tokens for longer prompts. The actual cost increase is between 49% to 92%.