OpenAI: GPT-4o
🇺🇸 OpenAI · GPT-4o
Overview
OpenAI: GPT-4o is a large language model API from OpenAI, part of its GPT-4o model family. Priced at $2.50 per million input tokens and $10.00 per million output tokens, it occupies the mid-range, balancing capability against running cost. Output tokens cost about 4× as much as input, so prompt-heavy workloads run noticeably cheaper than generation-heavy ones. The 128K-token context window — around 192 pages of text — comfortably handles long documents, multi-file code, or extended conversations. Beyond plain text it also accepts Image, File input, so it can be applied to multimodal tasks rather than text alone. On Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index it scores 12 (F grade), a useful proxy for its general reasoning strength relative to the other models tracked here. All prices on this page reflect OpenRouter's routed rates and are re-synced automatically every day; confirm against the provider's official pricing before committing to production.
| Dimension | Unit | Price (USD) |
|---|---|---|
| Input | per 1M tokens | $2.50 |
| Output | per 1M tokens | $10.00 |
- Provider
- OpenAI
- Model Family
- GPT-4o
- Version String
- openai/gpt-4o
- Status
- Active
- Modality
- Text, Image, File
- Context Window
- 128,000 tokens
- Output Limit
- 16,384 tokens
Index Metrics
Cross-domain capability indexes evaluated by Artificial Analysis — Artificial Analysis
Benchmark Scores
Data source: Artificial Analysis
Use Case Analysis
Model strengths, weaknesses, and ideal use cases based on benchmarks and official documentation
Strength
- Multimodal Excellence Accepts text, image, audio, and video inputs; produces text, audio, and image outputs. Trained end-to-end across modalities. Official
- Fast Response Time Can respond to audio inputs in 232-320ms, similar to human conversation latency. Official
- Cost Efficiency 2x faster and 50% cheaper than GPT-4 Turbo with 5x higher rate limits. Official
Best For
- Multimodal Applications Image analysis, document processing, video understanding, audio transcription. Official
- General Purpose Tasks Most tasks where you need a capable, fast, and affordable model. Official
Weakness
- Limited Reasoning Not optimized for complex multi-step reasoning compared to o-series models. Benchmark
Not Recommended
- Complex Reasoning Use o3 or o3-mini for problems requiring deep reasoning and chain-of-thought. Benchmark
90-Day Price Trend
Input / Output price (USD per 1M tokens)
Past 90 days of records; every price change is shown here
| Date | Dimension | Price (USD) | Source |
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| Output | $10.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $2.50 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $10.00 | OpenRouter | |
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| Output | $10.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $2.50 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $10.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $2.50 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $10.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $2.50 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $10.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $2.50 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $10.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $2.50 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $10.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $2.50 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $10.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $2.50 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $10.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $2.50 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $10.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $2.50 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $10.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $2.50 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $10.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $2.50 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $10.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $2.50 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $10.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $2.50 | OpenRouter | |
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| Input | $2.50 | OpenRouter | |
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| Input | $2.50 | OpenRouter | |
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| Input | $2.50 | OpenRouter | |
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| Input | $2.50 | OpenRouter | |
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| Output | $10.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $2.50 | OpenRouter |
Key Insights
Key data points from this page for quick reference and citation.
- OpenAI: GPT-4o Input price: $2.5/M tokens
- OpenAI: GPT-4o Output price: $10/M tokens
- Context window: 128,000 tokens
- Provider: OpenAI
- Model family: GPT-4o
- Modalities: Text, Image, File
- Data source: OpenRouter, updated daily