LLM Reference

GPT-4o (08-06)

Released
2024-08-06
Last refreshed
2026-05-19
Status
Researched 16d ago
DeprecatedProprietaryMultimodalCodingRAGAgentsLong contextVisionClassificationJSON / Tool use

GPT-4o (08-06) is a legacy integration reference; evaluate GPT-4o before starting new work.

Use it for

  • Teams maintaining an existing integration
  • Workloads that can use a 128k context window
  • Buyers comparing 3 tracked provider routes

Do not use it for

  • New production launches
Specifications
Family
GPT-4o
Released
2024-08-06
Context
128k
Parameters
1.76T (8x222B MoE)*
Architecture
Mixture of Experts
Knowledge cutoff
2023-10
Specialization
general
License
Proprietary
Training
finetuned
Created by

Cutting-edge research and development.

San Francisco, California, United States
Founded 2015
Website
Pricing
Output / 1M
$10.00
Input / 1M
$2.50

Cheapest of 3 routes · OpenAI API · cache read $1.25

This model is deprecated. OpenAI recommends switching to GPT-4o.

About

GPT-4o (08-06) is OpenAI's GPT-4o model with multimodal text and image input. It is deprecated (originally released 2024-08-06); use it only for reproducing earlier results or evaluating drift over time.

GPT-4o (08-06) is a proprietary model in the GPT-4o family. The structured metadata tracks a 128k-token context window, multimodal input, structured outputs, and code execution. This page tracks provider routes through OpenAI API, Salesforce Einstein Generative AI, and OpenRouter, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $2.5 input and $10 output per 1M tokens. Headline tracked benchmarks include Aider Polyglot 23.1 and MMLU PRO 74.7.

Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks

Coding

1 relevant benchmark 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 3

Compare API pricing across 3 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MBatch in / outCacheRoute
OpenAI API$2.50$10.00$1.25 / $5.00read $1.25
Serverless
OpenRouter$2.50$10.00--
Serverless
Salesforce Einstein Generative AI----
ServerlessPartial

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalStructured OutputsCode Execution

Benchmark peer barsfor Coding

Benchmark scores(2)

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
Aider Polyglot23.12026-04https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards
MMLU PRO74.7https://huggingface.co/spaces/TIGER-Lab/MMLU-Pro

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.

API versions

gpt-4o-2024-08-06gpt-4o

Rankings & picks(2)

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