OpenAI

GPT-5.4

A more affordable frontier model for coding and professional work, with a 1.05M-token context window and native compaction for long-running agents.

ActiveReleased April 20, 2026Knowledge cutoff August 31, 2025Available 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 / $15 out
Context window1,050,000
Max output128,000
Cache read$0.25 / M
Batch discount-50%
ModalitiesText, Image → Text
Priced across4 providers

Pricing

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

Billing legStandardLong contextBatch
Input$2.5 / M$5 / M$1.25 / M
Output$15 / M$22.5 / M$7.5 / M
Cache read$0.25 / M$0.5 / M$0.13 / M

Long-context rates apply above 272,000 input tokens.

Cost calculator

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

Hidden reasoning tokens bill as output. 1.0x = thinking off. Medium-effort reasoning typically lands near 3x; heavy reasoning runs 6x to 8x. Set it to match your workload.

Estimated monthly cost
$1.4K
at current list prices
Fresh input$500
Cached input$0.00
Output incl. thinking$900
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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$15$0.25First-party API
Cursor
$2.5$15$0.25Direct
AWS Bedrock
$3.3$19.8Direct
AWS Bedrock · Regional
from$3.3$19.8Direct

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 / $15past
July 10, 2026$2.5 / $15current

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