GPT-4o (2024-08-06) is a dated snapshot of OpenAI's GPT-4o model, with an intelligence index of 9.6 and an agentic index of 18.6. It supports vision, tool use, function calling, and a 128K context window, covering the full capability breadth most business workflows require. GPQA at 0.521 and LiveCodeBench at 0.317 show solid reasoning and coding performance for its generation.

For business use, it remains capable for document analysis, structured extraction, vision tasks, and multi-step agentic workflows. Its instruction-following and long-context reasoning scores are reasonable. The main consideration is that newer GPT-4o variants and other flagship models have since surpassed it on most benchmarks, so it is not the recommended choice for teams starting new deployments.

At $2.50 input and $10.00 output per million tokens, it sits at a premium price point that is harder to justify given the availability of more capable models at similar or lower cost. Existing integrations built on this specific version may continue to use it, but new projects should evaluate current alternatives first.

Assessed June 30, 2026

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