The Known Good Updated 29 Jul 2026
OpenAI ·Proprietary ·Released May 2024·Tracked since 25 Jul 2026

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

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Quality
#59 of 62
26based on 6 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#192 of 317
41.6
Output tokens per second
Price
#310 of 370
$4.38
Blended per 1M tokens
In $2.50 · Out $10.00
Cache hit price
#232 of 238
$1.25
per 1M tokens (−50%)
Context
#330 of 375
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 26 on the Known Good Index, well below the tracked average of 64, from 6 of the seven component evaluations. Measured against the tracked average, its strongest result is LiveBench (55 against 52) and its weakest is Mock AIME 2024–25 (6 against 53).

Pricing is $2.50 per 1M input tokens (above the $2.10 average) and $10.00 per 1M output (close to the $9.62 average). Cached input reads at $1.25 per 1M, a 50% discount on its input price. At 42 tokens per second it sits in the lower middle of the tracked range.

Generated from tracked data on 29 Jul 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

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
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Quality

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

Known Good IndexCapability indices
Known Good Index

Composite of GPQA Diamond, Mock AIME 2024–25, MATH Level 5, 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
Mock AIME 2024–256 / 53
MATH Level 553 / 55
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 outputQuality 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

Latency

Time to first token, median across providers

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
OpenAI · first party $2.50 $10.00 $4.38 43 0.6s 128k
Azure · first party $2.50 $10.00 $4.38 28 0.9s 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 26 · based on 6 of 7 evaluations
Blended price $4.38 per 1M · observed 29 Jul 2026
Output speed 42 tok/s · observed 29 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.

claude-3-5-haiku-20241022 OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini mistral-small-2501 claude-3-opus-20240229 Google: Gemma 2 27B gemma-2-27b-it mistral-small-2503 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 →