GPT-5.5 API Member pricing vs list price

Does Member pay for itself on GPT-5.5?

Member costs $199 a year. At list price, a Member Private key saves $0.25 per 1M input tokens and $1.50 per 1M output tokens. It pays for itself at about $3,980 a year ($332 a month) of GPT-5.5 spend at list price.

At $5.00 per 1M input tokens that is about 796M input tokens a year, or 66M a month. Ten tasks a day at 100,000 input tokens each is 30M input tokens a month, 45% of that; output, at 6× the input price, brings the point closer.

Executive ($1,999 a year) pays for itself on GPT-5.5 alone above $13,327 a year of spend at list price with a Private key or $9,995 with Research Share, and it costs less than Member once Private spend at list passes $1,500 a month.

• Member ($199 a year) pays for itself once your GPT-5.5 spend at list price passes $332 a month with a Private key (about 29M tokens at a 3:1 input-to-output mix) or $166 a month with Research Share.
• Executive ($1,999 a year) costs less than Member above $1,500 a month (Private keys), about 133M tokens a month.

Specs

List price rank: 66th lowest input price and 67th lowest output price of the 69 models. Its context window is larger than 59 of them.

What GPT-5.5 is best at

What 1,000 requests cost

Example request shapes, priced per 1,000 requests from the per-token prices above.

GPT-5.5 vs similar models

• vs GPT-5.6 Sol: GPT-5.6 Sol costs $4.00 per 1M input tokens at list, 20% cheaper than GPT-5.5, and $20.00 per 1M output tokens, 33% cheaper than GPT-5.5; it has the same 1,050,000-token window as GPT-5.5. If it meets your quality bar, it is the lower-cost option; keep GPT-5.5 where prompts and evals are validated on it.
• vs Claude Opus 5.5: Claude Opus 5.5 costs $4.00 per 1M input tokens at list, 20% cheaper than GPT-5.5, and $20.00 per 1M output tokens, 33% cheaper than GPT-5.5; it has a 1,000,000-token window, smaller than GPT-5.5's 1,050,000. Test both on your own domain before committing at scale.
• vs GPT-6 Astra: GPT-6 Astra costs $10.00 per 1M input tokens at list, 2× the price of GPT-5.5, and is the highest-priced OpenAI model on Bearer Club. Run your task on GPT-5.5 first and move up only when your evals show it falling short.

Use GPT-5.5 with the OpenAI SDK

Change two settings: point the SDK at https://api.bearer.club/v1 and use your Bearer Club key, then pass openai/gpt-5.5 as the model.

curl https://api.bearer.club/v1/chat/completions \  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BEARER_CLUB_API_KEY" \  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \  -d '{    "model": "openai/gpt-5.5",    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello from the Club!"}]  }'

import osfrom openai import OpenAIclient = OpenAI(    base_url="https://api.bearer.club/v1",    api_key=os.environ["BEARER_CLUB_API_KEY"],  # your membership card)resp = client.chat.completions.create(    model="openai/gpt-5.5",    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello from the Club!"}],)print(resp.choices[0].message.content)

import OpenAI from "openai";const client = new OpenAI({  baseURL: "https://api.bearer.club/v1",  apiKey: process.env.BEARER_CLUB_API_KEY, // your membership card});const resp = await client.chat.completions.create({  model: "openai/gpt-5.5",  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello from the Club!" }],});console.log(resp.choices[0].message.content);

The official OpenAI SDKs and most OpenAI-compatible tools, such as Cursor, Cline, Continue, Open WebUI and LiteLLM, work the same way; the name of the base URL setting varies by tool.

GPT-5.5 FAQ

Further reading

• Best API for coding: benchmarks and live prices

  Best API for coding in 2026, ranked by task type and live token prices. Covers Claude, DeepSeek, Qwen and GPT, all on one key at member prices.

• OpenRouter alternatives ranked by price and model access

  OpenRouter alternatives compared by pricing model, model count and real per-token cost: which service saves most at volume and which has the widest catalog.

• OpenAI-compatible API explained: one key for 69 models

  OpenAI-compatible API: change base_url and api_key to reach 69 models including GPT-6, Claude, DeepSeek, and Gemini through Bearer Club at member prices.