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GPT-4.5

gpt-4-5

DeprecatedResearched 8d ago

Last refreshed 2026-05-10. Next refresh: weekly.

ProprietaryMultimodalCodingAgentsVisionClassificationJSON / Tool use

GPT-4.5 is a legacy integration reference; evaluate GPT-4.1 before starting new work.

Decision context: Classification task fit, 2 tracked provider routes, and research from 2026-05-10.

Use it for

  • Teams maintaining an existing integration
  • Workloads that can use a 8K context window
  • Buyers comparing 2 tracked provider routes

Do not use it for

  • New production launches

Cheapest output

-

Azure OpenAI per 1M tokens

Provider routes

2

Tracked API hosts

Quality / dollar

Unknown

No output-token price in the ladder

Freshness

2026-05-10

Researched 8d ago

fresh

This API model is marked deprecated. Use GPT-4.1 as the replacement candidate before sending new production traffic.

Top use-case fit

Coding

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Agents

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Vision

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

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

Benchmark peer barsfor Classification

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.

About

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

GPT-4.5 has a 8K-token context window.

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalFunction CallingTool UseStructured OutputsCode Execution

Benchmark Scores(1)

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.
BenchmarkScoreVersionSource
MMLU PRO86.1https://huggingface.co/spaces/TIGER-Lab/MMLU-Pro

Rankings

Specifications

FamilyGPT-4.5
Released2026-03-12
Context8K
Knowledge cutoff2025-04
LicenseProprietary
Fine-tuning1

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