LLM Reference

GPT-4o

gpt-4o

Researched 12d ago

Last refreshed 2026-05-22. Next refresh: weekly.

ProprietaryMultimodalCodingRAGAgentsLong contextVisionJSON / Tool use

GPT-4o is worth evaluating for coding, rag, and agents when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Decision context: Vision task fit, 5 tracked provider routes, and research from 2026-05-10.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating coding, rag, and agents
  • Workloads that can use a 128K context window
  • Buyers comparing 4 tracked provider routes

Do not use it for

  • Workloads where another current model has stronger sourced task evidence

Cheapest output

$10.00

OpenAI API per 1M tokens

Provider routes

5

Tracked API hosts

Quality / dollar

Grade D

Ranked by benchmark score divided by cheapest output price

Freshness

2026-05-10

Researched 12d ago

fresh

Top use-case fit

Coding

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

RAG

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Agents

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

Compare all 5
ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MCacheRoute
OpenAI API$2.50$10.00read $1.25
Serverless
OpenRouter$2.50$10.00-
Serverless
Replicate API$2.50$10.00-
Serverless
Vercel AI Gateway$2.50$10.00read $1.25
Serverless

Benchmark peer barsfor Vision

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.

About

OpenAI GPT-4o: Flagship multimodal model with vision, function calling, and broad capability. $2.50/M input, $10/M output.

GPT-4o has a 128K-token context window.

GPT-4o input tokens at $2.5/1M, output at $10/1M.

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalFunction CallingTool UseStructured OutputsCode ExecutionPrompt CachingBatch APIFine-tuning

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.
BenchmarkScoreVersionSource
Chatbot Arena1315.0https://lmarena.ai
Google-Proof Q&A50.6diamondhttps://openai.com/index/learning-to-reason-with-llms/
Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding69.1https://mmmu-benchmark.github.io/

Rankings

Specifications

FamilyGPT-4o
Released2024-05-13
Context128K
Max output16,384
ArchitectureDecoder Only
Knowledge cutoff2023-10
Specializationgeneral
LicenseProprietary
Trainingpretrained

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