GPT-4o
OpenAI
OpenAI's versatile flagship model with multimodal capabilities. Accepts text and image inputs, produces text outputs. The 'o' stands for 'omni', reflecting its ability to handle multiple input types seamlessly. Features a massive 128K context window and strong performance across reasoning, coding, and creative tasks. Best model for most use cases requiring balanced performance and cost.
Strengths
- Massive 128K context window handles extensive conversations and complex documents
- Multimodal capabilities - accepts both text and image inputs natively
- Excellent prompt adherence with improved understanding of longer prompts
- Cost-effective at $2.50 per 1M input tokens (5x cheaper than GPT-4 Turbo)
- Strong general-purpose performance across reasoning, coding, and creative tasks
- Cached input pricing reduces costs for repeated prompts by 50%
- High-speed generation at 31.8 tokens per second
Caveats
- No native audio support (unlike GPT-4o with audio)
- Knowledge cutoff October 2023 is older than some competitors
- Max output tokens (16K) lower than GPT-5 series (64K-128K)
- Higher cost than GPT-4o-mini for simple tasks ($2.50 vs $0.15 input)
- Image input quality affects accuracy - requires clear, well-lit images
- Vendor
- OpenAI
- Context Window
- 128,000 tokens
- Max Output
- 16,384 tokens
- License
- Proprietary
- Release Date
- 2024-08-06
- Training Cutoff
- 2023-10-01
- Modalities
- textimage
| Benchmark | Score | Max |
|---|---|---|
| livebench_instruction_following | 75.7 | 100.0 |
| livebench_language | 52.0 | 100.0 |
| livebench_coding | 51.4 | 100.0 |
Capabilities
Vision
Audio
Video
Tool Use
Resources
Pricing
$2.50 per 1M input tokens, $10.00 per 1M output tokens. Cached input: $1.25 per 1M tokens