GPT-4.5

Released
2025-02-27
Last refreshed
2026-10-17
Status
Researched 28d ago
DeprecatedProprietaryCommercial use: restrictedMultimodalCodingAgentsVisionClassificationJSON / Tool use

GPT-4.5 is a legacy integration reference; evaluate GPT-6 Luna before starting new work.

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Specifications
Family
GPT-4.5
Released
2025-02-27
Context
8K
Knowledge cutoff
2025-04
Openness
Proprietary
License
ProprietaryRestricted
Weights
Not released
Code
Unknown
Created by

Cutting-edge research and development.

San Francisco, California, United States
Founded 2015
Website
Pricing

No tracked provider pricing is available yet.

This model is deprecated. OpenAI recommends switching to GPT-6 Luna.

About

Improved GPT-4 variant released March 2026. Enhanced performance over GPT-4o with better reasoning and code generation.

Providers(2)

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Compare API pricing across 2 tracked provider routes for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
OpenAI API--
ServerlessPartial
Azure OpenAI--
ServerlessPartial

Available via routers & gateways(16)

LiteLLM

Gateway

Open-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.

Free OSSOpenAI APIAzure OpenAI

OpenRouter

Hybrid

Unified hybrid gateway to 500+ models from 80+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with an optional Auto Router that selects a model per prompt from market spend data.

Passthrough + feeOpenAI API

Portkey

Gateway

Production AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, caching, and guardrails; MIT-licensed open-source core is self-hostable. Now part of Palo Alto Networks as Prisma AIRS AI Gateway.

SubscriptionOpenAI APIAzure OpenAI

AIRouter

Router

Commercial LLM router (branded "AI Router" on its site) that picks the best model per request via a Decision API or an OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions endpoint, with a private selection mode that routes on anonymized patterns; sold as BYOK subscription plans priced by routed tokens.

SubscriptionOpenAI API

Azure AI Foundry Model Router

Router

Microsoft Azure AI Foundry's native model router that uses a trained ML model to route each prompt in real time to the optimal Azure-hosted model, with Balanced/Cost/Quality mode selection and automatic failover.

Passthrough + feeAzure OpenAI

Helicone

Gateway

Observability-first AI gateway with routing, caching, rate limiting, and request tracing; Apache-2.0 open-source platform with a managed hosted tier for logging and analytics.

SubscriptionOpenAI APIAzure OpenAI

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalJSON / Tool useStructured OutputsCode ExecutionFine-tuning

Benchmark peer barsfor Classification

Benchmark scores(3)

Scores are benchmark-specific and are direction-aware: the same numeric gap can mean very different outcomes across suites. Use the leaderboard context and this model's provider route to decide whether the winning margin is meaningful for your workload.
BenchmarkScoreVersionEvaluationSource
86.1—Observed 2026-04-14—
71.4—Observed 2025-02-27—
1394.0text creative_writing 2026-10-22Observed 2026-10-22
Configuration: GPT-4.5 Preview (2025-02-27)
Harness: LMArena blind pairwise human votes, Bradley-Terry
Evaluator: LMArena
Confidence: confirmed
Notes: LMArena Text arena, Creative Writing category (no style control), board published 2026-10-22 (HF lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset @a467e6b9, text config, latest split). Board entry 'GPT-4.5 Preview (2025-02-27)' (category creative_writing in text/latest-00000-of-00001.parquet): rank 110 of 416, rating 1393.6 (95% CI 1381.6-1405.5), 2618 votes. The board entry or catalog model carries a Preview/Beta/Experimental label. LLM Reference model is lifecycle-deprecated; score kept as historical. Source: LMArena (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-27.
Source

Source: LMArena (lmarena.ai), CC BY 4.0

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