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Daybreak Blue

Daybreak Blue is an OpenAI proprietary reasoning model, released 7 Aug 2026. It is not yet ranked: no independent benchmark results so far, only pricing and metadata. At $8.00 per million tokens blended it is among the most expensive ranked models.

Blended price
$8.00/M
$4.00 in · $20.00 out
Output speed
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First answer
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Context
1.1M
Full answer
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Cost per run
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Released
7 Aug 2026

Benchmark results

One column per reasoning effort. Rank is among every configuration of every model on that benchmark. Hover a score for the run it came from.

Agents & tools

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CyberBenchnot in index73.0%#10Vals AI

What a task costs

Estimates from list price, output speed and time to first answer for the best configuration. “With caching” assumes three-quarters of the input is served from the prompt cache at $0.400 per 1M. Reasoning tokens are not modelled.

WorkloadTokens in / outCostWith cachingTime
Chat reply400 / 300$0.0076$0.0065–
Summarise a 30-page report12,000 / 600$0.060$0.028–
Code edit6,000 / 1,500$0.054$0.038–
Agentic coding session60,000 / 4,000$0.320$0.158–
Structured extraction2,000 / 200$0.012$0.0066–

See also

Data as of 11 Oct 2026. Compare with another model.

Cite as: BenchLeader, “Daybreak Blue: benchmarks, pricing, speed and rank”, https://www.benchleader.com/models/gpt-daybreak-blue, data as of 11 Oct 2026.