OpenAI

GPT-4o

OpenAI's multimodal workhorse for legacy and vision use cases, with a 128K-token context window.

ActiveReleased May 13, 2024Knowledge cutoff October 1, 2023Available from 4 providers
Tool callingCan invoke external tools and APIs (function calling) mid-response.Structured outputCan return JSON or schema-constrained responses instead of free text.ReasoningUses extended thinking / chain-of-thought for harder multi-step problems.Effort controlLets you dial thinking depth (low / medium / high) to trade cost for quality.Fine-tuningSupports training a custom variant on your own data.

Source: OpenAI models, OpenAI pricing

Price per 1M tokens
$2.5 in / $10 out
Context window128,000
Max output16,384
Cache read$1.25 / M
Batch discount-50%
ModalitiesText, Image → Text
Priced across4 providers

Pricing

Every billing leg from the live catalog, in USD per 1M tokens.

Billing legRateBatch
Input$2.5 / M$1.25 / M
Output$10 / M$5 / M
Cache read$1.25 / Mn/a

Cost calculator

Billing-grade math over the rate card above, including the thinking tokens most estimates miss.

Estimated monthly cost
$700
at current list prices
Fresh input$500
Cached input$0.00
Output$200
Track this automatically →

Compare providers

The same model, priced across every platform that serves it. Lowest combined in/out rate is flagged.

PlatformInput / MOutput / MCache read / MBatchAccess
OpenAILowest
$2.5$10$1.25First-party API
Azure OpenAI
$2.5$10$1.25Direct
Azure OpenAI · Data zone
$2.75$11$1.38Direct
Azure OpenAI · Regional
from$2.75$11$1.38Direct

Regional deployments are priced per region; the lowest available region rate is shown.

Price history

Has this model gotten cheaper or more expensive?

EffectiveInput / OutputStatus
April 20, 2026 – July 10, 2026$2.5 / $10past
July 10, 2026$2.5 / $10current

More from OpenAI

Other models from the same provider.

Stop estimating. Track it.

SuperPenguin meters every GPT-4o call your team makes, prices it with this exact rate card, and shows spend by feature, customer, and team.

Get started free

Rates are generated from SuperPenguin's live pricing catalog.