diff --git a/providers/openai/src/airflow/providers/openai/hooks/openai.py b/providers/openai/src/airflow/providers/openai/hooks/openai.py
index 97dcc4ceec8dc..b76e89837d56c 100644
--- a/providers/openai/src/airflow/providers/openai/hooks/openai.py
+++ b/providers/openai/src/airflow/providers/openai/hooks/openai.py
@@ -272,6 +272,23 @@ def create_response(self, input: Any, model: str = "gpt-4o-mini", **kwargs: Any)
         """
         return self.conn.responses.create(model=model, input=input, **kwargs)
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def summarize_response_usage(response: Response) -> dict[str, Any] | None:
+        """
+        Flatten a Responses API call's token usage into an XCom-safe mapping.
+
+        Dumps the model rather than copying a fixed list of fields, so a token-usage
+        dimension the API adds later is not silently dropped. ``mode="json"`` keeps the
+        result JSON-serializable for XCom. There is no cost field to flatten: the OpenAI
+        response reports token counts only, never a monetary amount.
+
+        :param response: A response returned by :meth:`create_response`. ``usage`` is
+            optional on the SDK model, so ``None`` is returned when it is absent.
+        """
+        if response.usage is None:
+            return None
+        return response.usage.model_dump(mode="json")
+
     def get_response(self, response_id: str, **kwargs: Any) -> Response:
         """
         Retrieve a previously created model response.
diff --git a/providers/openai/src/airflow/providers/openai/operators/openai.py b/providers/openai/src/airflow/providers/openai/operators/openai.py
index dfed6e48d51a9..5556a37a99d3a 100644
--- a/providers/openai/src/airflow/providers/openai/operators/openai.py
+++ b/providers/openai/src/airflow/providers/openai/operators/openai.py
@@ -83,9 +83,11 @@ class OpenAIResponseOperator(BaseOperator):
     """
     Operator that generates a model response using the OpenAI Responses API.
 
-    The operator is synchronous and returns the response's aggregated output text. For
-    ``previous_response_id`` chaining, ``background=True`` responses, or access to the full
-    structured response, use :class:`~airflow.providers.openai.hooks.openai.OpenAIHook` directly.
+    The operator is synchronous and returns the response's aggregated output text; the
+    response id is also pushed to XCom (see below), so a downstream task can pick it up
+    for ``previous_response_id`` chaining without going through the hook. For
+    ``background=True`` responses, or access to the full structured response, use
+    :class:`~airflow.providers.openai.hooks.openai.OpenAIHook` directly.
 
     :param conn_id: The OpenAI connection ID to use.
     :param input_text: The input prompt for the model. This can be a string or a structured list of
@@ -99,6 +101,12 @@ class OpenAIResponseOperator(BaseOperator):
         :ref:`howto/operator:OpenAIResponseOperator`
         For possible options, see:
         https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/responses/create
+
+    ``execute`` also pushes two XCom keys: ``response_id`` (the response's ID, usable as
+    a downstream call's ``previous_response_id``) and ``usage`` (the flattened response
+    usage, or ``None`` when the API omits it). ``usage`` reports token counts only --
+    the OpenAI response carries no cost field, so pricing a run means multiplying these
+    counts by your own per-token rate.
     """
 
     template_fields: Sequence[str] = ("input_text",)
@@ -131,6 +139,8 @@ def execute(self, context: Context) -> str:
                 response.status,
             )
         self.log.info("Generated response %s", response.id)
+        context["ti"].xcom_push(key="response_id", value=response.id)
+        context["ti"].xcom_push(key="usage", value=self.hook.summarize_response_usage(response))
         return response.output_text
 
 
diff --git a/providers/openai/tests/unit/openai/hooks/test_openai.py b/providers/openai/tests/unit/openai/hooks/test_openai.py
index d132a6a3d9582..74514a0aadcda 100644
--- a/providers/openai/tests/unit/openai/hooks/test_openai.py
+++ b/providers/openai/tests/unit/openai/hooks/test_openai.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import os
-from unittest.mock import MagicMock, mock_open, patch
+from unittest.mock import MagicMock, Mock, mock_open, patch
 
 import pytest
 from openai import OpenAI
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@
 from openai.types.beta import Assistant, AssistantDeleted, Thread, ThreadDeleted
 from openai.types.beta.threads import Message, Run
 from openai.types.chat import ChatCompletion
+from openai.types.responses import Response, ResponseUsage
+from openai.types.responses.response_usage import InputTokensDetails, OutputTokensDetails
 from openai.types.vector_stores import VectorStoreFile, VectorStoreFileBatch, VectorStoreFileDeleted
 
 from airflow.exceptions import AirflowProviderDeprecationWarning
@@ -338,6 +340,33 @@ def test_cancel_response(mock_openai_hook):
     assert result is expected
 
 
+def test_summarize_response_usage():
+    usage = ResponseUsage(
+        input_tokens=10,
+        input_tokens_details=InputTokensDetails(cache_write_tokens=1, cached_tokens=2),
+        output_tokens=20,
+        output_tokens_details=OutputTokensDetails(reasoning_tokens=3),
+        total_tokens=30,
+    )
+    response = Mock(spec=Response, usage=usage)
+
+    result = OpenAIHook.summarize_response_usage(response)
+
+    assert result == {
+        "input_tokens": 10,
+        "input_tokens_details": {"cache_write_tokens": 1, "cached_tokens": 2},
+        "output_tokens": 20,
+        "output_tokens_details": {"reasoning_tokens": 3},
+        "total_tokens": 30,
+    }
+
+
+def test_summarize_response_usage_without_usage():
+    response = Mock(spec=Response, usage=None)
+
+    assert OpenAIHook.summarize_response_usage(response) is None
+
+
 def test_create_conversation(mock_openai_hook):
     expected = mock_openai_hook.conn.conversations.create.return_value
     result = mock_openai_hook.create_conversation(metadata={"topic": "demo"})
diff --git a/providers/openai/tests/unit/openai/operators/test_openai.py b/providers/openai/tests/unit/openai/operators/test_openai.py
index 0ec78bb182c51..20f50bd1bcba8 100644
--- a/providers/openai/tests/unit/openai/operators/test_openai.py
+++ b/providers/openai/tests/unit/openai/operators/test_openai.py
@@ -89,13 +89,17 @@ def test_openai_response_operator_execute():
         response_kwargs={"instructions": "Be concise.", "previous_response_id": "resp_prev"},
     )
     mock_hook_instance = Mock(spec=OpenAIHook)
-    mock_hook_instance.create_response.return_value = Mock(
-        spec=Response, output_text="haiku text", id="resp_123", status="completed"
-    )
+    mock_response = Mock(spec=Response, output_text="haiku text", id="resp_123", status="completed")
+    mock_hook_instance.create_response.return_value = mock_response
+    mock_hook_instance.summarize_response_usage.return_value = {"input_tokens": 5, "output_tokens": 7}
     operator.hook = mock_hook_instance
 
-    result = operator.execute(Context())
+    context = Context()
+    context["ti"] = Mock()
+    result = operator.execute(context)
 
+    # Backward compat: the return value is still the aggregated output text, unchanged
+    # by the new XCom pushes below.
     assert result == "haiku text"
     mock_hook_instance.create_response.assert_called_once_with(
         input="Write a haiku.",
@@ -103,6 +107,9 @@ def test_openai_response_operator_execute():
         instructions="Be concise.",
         previous_response_id="resp_prev",
     )
+    context["ti"].xcom_push.assert_any_call(key="response_id", value="resp_123")
+    context["ti"].xcom_push.assert_any_call(key="usage", value={"input_tokens": 5, "output_tokens": 7})
+    mock_hook_instance.summarize_response_usage.assert_called_once_with(mock_response)
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("wait_for_completion", [True, False])