The Known Good Updated 25 Jul 2026
OpenAI ·Proprietary ·Released May 2024·Tracked since 25 Jul 2026

OpenAI: GPT-4o — quality, speed & price analysis

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Quality
#58 of 61
21based on 5 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#198 of 316
40.8
Output tokens per second
Price
#280 of 340
$4.38
Blended per 1M tokens
In $2.50 · Out $10.00
Cache hit price
#197 of 206
$1.25
per 1M tokens (−50%)
Context
#277 of 345
128k
tokens (~200 pages)
Summary

OpenAI: GPT-4o is in the lowest quarter of the models we track for quality, and priced above the tracked average, and notably slow. It accepts text, image, file input, outputs text, and supports a 128k-token context window.

It scores 21 on the Known Good Index, well below the tracked average of 60, from 5 of the six component evaluations. Measured against the tracked average, its strongest result is LiveBench (55 against 52) and its weakest is MATH / AIME (6 against 53).

Pricing is $2.50 per 1M input tokens (above the $2.18 average) and $10.00 per 1M output (close to the $9.91 average). Cached input reads at $1.25 per 1M, a 50% discount on its input price. At 41 tokens per second it sits in the lower middle of the tracked range.

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Technical specifications
ReasoningNo
Input modalitytext, image, file
Output modalitytext
Context window128,000 tokens
Max output16,384 tokens
WeightsProprietary
Knowledge cutoffOctober 2023
Tool callingYes
Providers2 hosts · compare →
Highlights — where OpenAI: GPT-4o sits
Price

Blended USD per 1M tokens · Lower is better · Published pricing via OpenRouter

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Quality

How OpenAI: GPT-4o compares against every tracked model

Known Good IndexCoding IndexCapability indicesBy open weights
Known Good Index

Composite of GPQA Diamond, MATH / AIME, SWE-bench Verified, LiveBench, Humanity's Last Exam and Terminal-Bench, normalised 0–100. Scores are ingested from Epoch AI, LiveBench; we do not run these evaluations.

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Quality Breakdown

OpenAI: GPT-4o on each evaluation feeding the index, against the tracked average

Evaluation scores

Bar = OpenAI: GPT-4o · grey marker = average across tracked models · scores ingested from Epoch AI, LiveBench

GPQA Diamond49 / 63
MATH / AIME6 / 53
SWE-bench Verified31 / 71
LiveBench55 / 52
Humanity's Last Exam3 / 17
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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena Elo

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena

OpenAI: GPT-4o does not currently appear in any arena we ingest.

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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

BlendedInput vs outputCache discountQuality per dollar
Blended Price

USD per 1M tokens at a 3:1 input:output blend. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input tokens accepted

Context windowMax output tokens
Context Window

Maximum input context from provider metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

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Speed

Median output throughput across hosting providers

Output speedBy provider
Output Speed

Median output tokens per second across all tracked providers. Derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry. Higher is better.

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Latency

Time to first token, median across providers

Time to first tokenEnd-to-end response
Latency (TTFT)

Seconds to first streamed chunk, median across tracked providers. Derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry. Lower is better.

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Providers

Hosts serving OpenAI: GPT-4o, with their own price and speed

2 providers
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ProviderInput $/MOutput $/M BlendedSpeedTTFTContext
Azure · first party $2.50 $10.00 $4.38 70 0.9s 128k
OpenAI · first party $2.50 $10.00 $4.38 31 0.4s 128k

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. Speed is output tokens per second; TTFT is time to first token.

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History

How price and quality have moved since we began tracking this model

Quality & price over time

Since 25 Jul 2026

Known Good Index 21 · based on 5 of 6 evaluations
Blended price $4.38 per 1M · observed 25 Jul 2026
Output speed 41 tok/s · observed 25 Jul 2026
Time to first token 0.7s

No recorded changes for this model since tracking began.

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Comparisons

Head-to-head pages pairing OpenAI: GPT-4o with other tracked models

Head-to-head pages are generated for the top 50 models by Known Good Index, which OpenAI: GPT-4o is not currently in. Its nearest tracked models by index are below.

OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini Google: Gemma 2 27B gemma-2-27b-it claude-3-5-haiku-20241022 mistral-small-2501 mistral-small-2503 claude-3-opus-20240229 Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
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Pricing & providers — OpenRouter Metadata — models.dev Benchmarks — Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)Benchmarks — LiveBench (Apache-2.0) Full attribution →