How many credits do you need?
There are so many different ways to use GPT for Work that the best way to estimate how many credits you need is to buy the cheapest credit pack ($29) and try on a small sample of rows. You can never spend more than you bought and there are no subscription fees.
Below we provide estimates to help you ballpark popular use cases and a simple estimator for bulk use cases.
Credits needed for popular use cases
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Use case
Credits
Translating a product catalog into one language (titles and descriptions)
$31.17
Enriching a product catalog (extracting 1 product attribute from descriptions)
$15.20
Categorizing a product catalog (100 categories)
$19.82
Creating meta-titles and meta-descriptions from titles and descriptions
$23.98
Generating alt texts from product images
$23.37
Filtering leads for ICP fitness
$0.47
Feedback analysis
$1.85
Reformatting / cleaning a column of data
$0.36
Market research (enriching 1 column with web search)
$25.29
Enriching a product catalog (extracting 1 product attribute from web search)
$25.28
Coverage tracking (extracting headlines from news articles)
$13.70
Credits are consumed according to the model prices.
Model prices are based on:
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Token usage: How much input (text or image) is sent to the model and how much output is generated by the model.
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Web search usage: How many searches are made.
If you use the Agent, each chat message consumes $0.08 on average. You typically need very few (sometimes only one) message to achieve the use cases above.
Simplified bulk estimator
The total amount of credits needed will depend on:
- Model choice and setup, including whether you're using an API key or endpoint and whether you're using web search or not. To check the prices for all models, see Model prices.
- How many cells you're filling
- How much input and output tokens are used to fill each cell
Choose a model
OpenAI gpt-4.1
No API key needed
gpt-4.1$30 / 1M tokens
gpt-4.1-mini$6 / 1M tokens
gpt-4.1-nano$1 / 1M tokens
gpt-5.2$50 / 1M tokens
gpt-5.1$40 / 1M tokens
gpt-5-mini$8 / 1M tokens
gpt-5-nano$1 / 1M tokens
gpt-4o$30 / 1M tokens
gpt-4o-mini$2 / 1M tokens
gpt-5-search-api$40 / 1M tokens + $10 / 1K executions
gpt-4o-search-preview$30 / 1M tokens + $25 / 1K executions
gpt-4o-mini-search-preview$2 / 1M tokens + $25 / 1K executions
gpt-5$40 / 1M tokens
gpt-5-chat$20 / 1M tokens
o1$70 / 1M tokens
o3$10 / 1M tokens
o4-mini$10 / 1M tokens
gpt-3.5-turbo$2.5 / 1M tokens
sonar$10 / 1M tokens + $5 to $12 / 1K executions
sonar-pro$20 / 1M tokens + $6 to $14 / 1K executions
Use your API key 🔑
gpt-4.1 🔑$1 / 1M tokens
gpt-4.1-mini 🔑$1 / 1M tokens
gpt-4.1-nano 🔑$1 / 1M tokens
gpt-5.2 🔑$1 / 1M tokens
gpt-5.1 🔑$1 / 1M tokens
gpt-5-mini 🔑$1 / 1M tokens
gpt-5-nano 🔑$1 / 1M tokens
gpt-4o 🔑$1 / 1M tokens
gpt-4o-mini 🔑$0.3 / 1M tokens
gpt-5-search-api 🔑$1 / 1M tokens
gpt-4o-search-preview 🔑$1 / 1M tokens
gpt-4o-mini-search-preview 🔑$0.3 / 1M tokens
gpt-5 🔑$1 / 1M tokens
gpt-5-chat 🔑$1 / 1M tokens
gpt-4-turbo 🔑$1 / 1M tokens
gpt-4 🔑$1 / 1M tokens
o1 🔑$1 / 1M tokens
o3-mini 🔑$1 / 1M tokens
o3 🔑$1 / 1M tokens
o4-mini 🔑$1 / 1M tokens
gpt-3.5-turbo 🔑$1 / 1M tokens
ft:gpt-3.5-turbo 🔑$1 / 1M tokens
ft:gpt-4o 🔑$1 / 1M tokens
ft:gpt-4o-mini 🔑$0.3 / 1M tokens
ft:gpt-4.1 🔑$1 / 1M tokens
sonar 🔑$1 / 1M tokens
sonar-pro 🔑$1 / 1M tokens
sonar-reasoning-pro 🔑$1 / 1M tokens
grok-4-1-fast 🔑$1 / 1M tokens
grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning 🔑$1 / 1M tokens
deepseek-reasoner 🔑$1 / 1M tokens
mistral-large 🔑$1 / 1M tokens
mistral-medium 🔑$1 / 1M tokens
mistral-small 🔑$1 / 1M tokens
ministral-8b 🔑$1 / 1M tokens
ministral-3b 🔑$1 / 1M tokens
openrouter 🔑$1 / 1M tokens