Scale Tier
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- Kind
- Capacity reservation
- Term
- Minimum 30 days per token unit.
- Aliases
- Reserved Capacity; Reserved Tier
- Definition
- "Scale Tier lets you purchase a set number of API input and output tokens per minute (known as “token units”) upfront for access to one specific model snapshot."
- Commercial rules
- Available to Enterprise customers through sales; "Scale Tier is available on models released before GPT‑5.6. For GPT‑5.6 and future model releases, see Reserved Tier". Minimum 30 days per token unit; 99.9% uptime SLA; billing starts when token units are first allocated. Annual commitments lock in discounts on Scale Tier, Priority processing and Standard processing.
- Applies to
- OpenAI API Enterprise customers.
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