Sora 1 Pricing
OpenAI · OpenAI's video generation model. Create realistic videos from text prompts or im
Save up to 70% on Sora 1 API cost
Same model, same quality — pay less per token than the official API. Pay-as-you-go, no credit card required.
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Pricing position within OpenAI
Sora 1 sits in the middle of OpenAI's pricing at $0.50/1M input — 84% below the lineup average ($0.10 cheapest, $20.00 most expensive). 4 siblings cost less, 7 cost more. This mid-tier positioning makes it a sensible default when you're unsure which variant to pick.
When Sora 1 is worth the cost
Sora 1 is used for text-to-video and image-to-video generation. You send a prompt or reference image, receive a video clip back. Common pipelines: marketing asset generation, storyboarding, social content, and visual prototyping. It doesn't handle text chat — route text workloads to a language model.
Cost vs sibling models
What makes Sora 1 different from sibling models: compared to GPT-5.5 ($4.50/1M more expensive, 256K vs — context (larger)); GPT-5.4 ($2.00/1M more expensive, 256K vs — context (larger)); GPT-4.1 ($1.50/1M more expensive, 1M vs — context (larger)). Choose Sora 1 when a balanced cost-to-capability ratio fits your workload.
Real-world cost scenarios
Real-world deployments: marketing video generation from product descriptions, social media content creation, storyboarding for video production, and visual prototyping for design teams. Sora 1 outputs video clips directly — no separate rendering pipeline needed.