OpenAI

GPT-4o

Public pricingMedium memoryVisionTool use

GPT-4o is OpenAI's medium-memory model with vision, tool use. This page shows current pricing, an interactive cost calculator, and a side-by-side with similar models.

Input

$2.50/1M tokens

Output

$10.00/1M tokens

Cached

$1.25/1M tokens

Batch

$1.25/1M tokens

Interactive

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Technical specifications

GPT-4o at a glance.

Memory

128,000

tokens

Max reply

16,384

tokens

Memory tier

Medium

a long report or a codebase file

Tokenizer

tiktoken-o200k

Released

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Training cutoff

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Availability

Public pricing

Status

active

What it can do

Capabilities & limits.

  • Understands images
  • Deep step-by-step thinking
  • Uses tools / calls functions
  • Strict JSON output
  • Streams replies
  • Fine-tunable on your data

When to pick GPT-4o

  • Screenshot analysis, image understanding, or document OCR.
  • Agentic workflows that call tools or APIs.
  • Code generation, review, or refactoring.
  • Multimodal pipelines mixing text + images.

When to look elsewhere

  • Very latency-sensitive, real-time apps where every millisecond counts.

Alternatives

Similar models to compare.

FAQ

GPT-4o — the questions we see most.

Pricing, capabilities, alternatives — generated from the same data that powers the calculator above.

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At a typical workload of 50,000 conversations a month with 1,500-token prompts and 800-token replies, GPT-4o costs roughly $588 per month. Input is $2.50 /1M tokens and output is $10.00 /1M tokens.
GPT-4o has a 128,000-token context window (medium memory — a long report or a codebase file). That means you can fit about 24,000 words of input and history in a single call.
Beyond text generation, GPT-4o supports understanding images, calling functions / tools, strict JSON output. It streams replies by default.
Models in a similar class include GPT-5, GPT-5.1, Claude Sonnet 4.6. The "Similar models" section below this FAQ links into each.

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