o3-deep-research

Retired Jul 2026

A specialized o3 variant, released June 2025, fine-tuned for autonomous research that synthesizes hundreds of online sources into comprehensive reports.

Context: 200K tokens
Max output: 100K
Cutoff: Jun 2024
Released: Jun 2025

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Hosted API price

Cheapest via Azure · per 1M tokens

USD

Input: $10.00 /1M
Output: $40.00 /1M
Hosted by: 1 provider

Hosted API pricing

How we price

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Prices

Base-tier, on-demand rates in USD per 1M tokens, converted at ECB reference rates where a provider publishes in another currency. Cached-input and batch rates show only where a provider publishes them. "Cheapest" marks the one provider with the lowest input and output pair; a tie wears no badge.

Cost

Input rate times the input tokens plus output rate times the output tokens, at the monthly volume set above the table. Cached-input, batch, long-context and reasoning-token billing are not modelled.

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Every provider serving o3-deep-research, cheapest input first. Set your monthly volume to see what each would bill.

Input M Output M

Every provider serving o3-deep-research, with its price per 1M input and output tokens and what the volume above would cost
Provider	Input /1M	Output /1M	Cached input /1M	Cost at 10M in + 2M out	Link
Azure	$10.00	$40.00	$2.50	$180.00	Visit website

Heads up: Base-tier, on-demand rates per 1M tokens; cached, batch and long-context tiers excluded. A provider may serve a shorter context or a quantized build than the creator's release. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Similarly priced models

The models nearest o3-deep-research by blended rate, each at its own cheapest provider.

Models priced nearest o3-deep-research per 1M tokens, each at its cheapest provider
Model	Blended /1M	Input /1M	Output /1M	Context	Cutoff	vs o3-deep-research
Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic	$8.3333	$5.00	$25.00	1M	Jan 2026	−44%
Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic	$8.3333	$5.00	$25.00	1M	Jan 2026	−44%
Claude Opus 5 Anthropic	$8.3333	$5.00	$25.00	1M	May 2026	−44%
GPT-5.5 OpenAI	$9.1667	$5.00	$30.00	1M	Dec 2025	−39%
GPT-4 Turbo OpenAI	$13.3333	$10.00	$30.00	128K	Dec 2023	−11%
o3-deep-research This model OpenAI	$15.00	$10.00	$40.00	200K	Jun 2024
Claude Fable 5 Anthropic	$16.6667	$10.00	$50.00	1M	Jan 2026	+11%
Claude Fable 5.1 Anthropic	$16.6667	$10.00	$50.00	1M	Jun 2026	+11%
GPT-6 Astra OpenAI	$16.6667	$10.00	$50.00	1M	Apr 2026	+11%
o1 OpenAI	$22.50	$15.00	$60.00	200K	Oct 2023	+50%
o3-pro OpenAI	$30.00	$20.00	$80.00	200K	Jun 2024	+100%

USD per 1M tokens at each model's cheapest listed provider. Blended is the cost of 10M input plus 2M output tokens, spread over the 12M.

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Capabilities

What o3-deep-research accepts and can do, as published by OpenAI.

Text Accepts and generates natural-language text.
Image Accepts images as input alongside text.
Reasoning Thinks before it answers, always on or as a switchable mode.
Web search Search the web for up-to-date information.
Code execution Write and execute code in a sandboxed environment.
File upload Process uploaded documents, spreadsheets, and other files.
MCP Connect to services via Model Context Protocol.

Common questions

What is o3-deep-research good for?

Autonomous, multi-step research reports that search and synthesize many online sources, with MCP connectors for private data. It was OpenAI's deep research model.

When is o3-deep-research not a good fit?

Anything new: OpenAI retired it in July 2026. It had no function calling or structured output, took no audio or video input, and its knowledge is dated.

What is the cheapest way to run o3-deep-research?

The cheapest hosted rate is $10.00 / $40.00 per 1M tokens via Azure.

Can I self-host o3-deep-research?

No. OpenAI does not publish the weights; o3-deep-research is available only through hosted APIs.