OpenAIDaybreak Red
Daybreak Red 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 $28.13 per million tokens blended it is among the most expensive ranked models.
- Blended price
- $28.13/M
- $12.50 in · $75.00 out
- Output speed
- –
- First answer
- –
- Context
- 400k
- Full answer
- –
- Cost per run
- –
- Released
- 7 Aug 2026
No independent quality benchmark results yet — only pricing and metadata.
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 $1.25 per 1M. Reasoning tokens are not modelled.
| Workload | Tokens in / out | Cost | With caching | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chat reply | 400 / 300 | $0.028 | $0.024 | – |
| Summarise a 30-page report | 12,000 / 600 | $0.195 | $0.094 | – |
| Code edit | 6,000 / 1,500 | $0.188 | $0.137 | – |
| Agentic coding session | 60,000 / 4,000 | $1.05 | $0.544 | – |
| Structured extraction | 2,000 / 200 | $0.040 | $0.023 | – |
See also
Data as of 11 Oct 2026. Compare with another model.
Cite as: BenchLeader, “Daybreak Red: benchmarks, pricing, speed and rank”, https://www.benchleader.com/models/gpt-daybreak-red, data as of 11 Oct 2026.