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GPT-5.1 for developers, and The Deploy Log for this week. Every price and claim read off the publisher's own page, with a call on each.
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GPT-5.1 for developers
DEPLOYif you build on the Responses API
WHAT SHIPPEDGPT-5.1 is available on all paid API tiers with pricing and rate limits the same as GPT-5, plus gpt-5.1-codex and gpt-5.1-codex-mini.
THE CATCHThe apply_patch tool emits structured diffs and the shell tool proposes commands your integration must execute, so the model's reach stops at your local execution layer.
IF YOU RUNlong-running agentic coding tasks, gpt-5.1-codex models are optimized for Codex or Codex-like harnesses
SOURCEOpenAI, Introducing GPT-5.1 for developers
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