o1 (12-17)
o1 (12-17) is a legacy integration reference; evaluate o3 before starting new work.
Use it for
- Teams maintaining an existing integration
- Workloads that can use a 128k context window
- Buyers comparing 2 tracked provider routes
Do not use it for
- New production launches
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
- Family
- o1
- Released
- 2024-12-17
- Context
- 128k
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Fine-tuned
Cheapest of 2 routes · OpenAI API
This model is deprecated. OpenAI recommends switching to o3.
About
Latest OpenAI o1 model emphasizing advanced reasoning and complex problem-solving.
Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks
Coding
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Agents
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Long context
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare all 2Compare API pricing across 2 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Batch in / out | Route |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI API | $15.00 | $60.00 | $7.50 / $30.00 | Serverless |
| Replicate API | $15.00 | $60.00 | - | Serverless |
Available via routers & gateways(15)
LiteLLM
GatewayOpen-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.
OpenRouter
HybridUnified hybrid gateway to 400+ models from 60+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with optional auto-routing that selects the best model per prompt.
Portkey
GatewayProduction AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, semantic caching, and guardrails; Apache 2.0 core is fully self-hostable with the complete feature set.
AIRouter
RouterCommercial LLM router that analyzes incoming requests and routes to the optimal model for cost/quality/latency via a drop-in OpenAI-compatible API, with a privacy-preserving embedding mode that avoids sending prompt content.
Helicone
GatewayObservability-first AI gateway with routing, caching, rate limiting, and request tracing; Apache 2.0 open-source core with a managed hosted tier for logging and analytics.
Kong AI Gateway
GatewayMulti-LLM AI gateway built on Kong Gateway 3.x, adding semantic routing, load balancing, guardrails, and MCP traffic analytics as plugins over Kong's existing API management platform.
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Vision
Benchmark scores(3)
| Benchmark | Score | Version | Evaluation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chatbot Arena | 1385.0 | —Observed 2026-04-15 | — | Source |
| Google-Proof Q&A | 78.0 | diamondObserved 2026-04-15 | — | Source |
| Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding | 78.2 | —Observed 2026-04-15 | — | Source |
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
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Cheapest of 2 routes · OpenAI API