Lawyers billed by token? OpenAI legal model gpt-6-astra-law appears on pricing page

OpenAI API pricing page has a new entry: gpt-6-astra-law. AI Tracker Bot spotted it on October 31 at 4:01 p.m. ET, and TestingCatalog later pointed out that the page labels it as "Legal model configuration." There is no official release note, and the model's capabilities, context length, and legal benchmarks have not been made public.

The pricing is already listed on the page, per 1 million tokens: $10 input, $50 output, and $1 cached input. A note at the bottom of the page says the promotional pricing for GPT-6 Astra for Law will last at least through December 31, 2026. According to AI Tracker Bot, there is no public information yet, but the entry points to a launch being close.

In a reply, user VectorCactus07 posted a screenshot and said they had already seen a live entry on the OpenAI API pricing page.

At this point, the only things that can be confirmed are the pricing page entry and the prices. The fact that a legal model configuration appears separately at least suggests that OpenAI is preparing legal scenarios as a standalone SKU. For developers, the 50x difference between $1 cached input and $50 output means that for tasks such as contract review and long-document Q&A, cache hit rate and output length will directly determine the billing structure. For ordinary users, a legal model configuration does not equal legal advice, and API pricing is not a service commitment.

Some replies started with a joke. Tesla Singh said that lawyers are finally billed by token instead of by the hour. Arbaz asked more directly: if legal Astra outputs at $50, what exactly does it know beyond regular Astra? There is no official answer to that question yet. Once OpenAI releases documentation, we should look at evaluations on legal tasks, refusal boundaries, and cost; the word "law" in the name does not say much.