OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Nano

OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Nano

openai · Released Mar 17, 2026 Professional
Intelligence #21 / 556
82.0 Our Score
Speed #56 / 257
151.5 tokens / sec
Input #264 / 557
$0.200 per 1M tokens
Output #331 / 557
$1.25 per 1M tokens
Context #76 / 557
400,000 tokens

Analysis Summary

OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Nano sits in the Professional tier on our leaderboard, ranked #21 of 556 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.200 input and $1.25 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers a generous context window for extended reasoning and code review and supports tool use, function calling, vision, and reasoning.

Editorial notes

GPT-5.4 Nano from OpenAI pairs a coding index of 43.9 with strong agentic scores, vision, tool use, and a 400K context at just $0.20 input per million tokens.

Assessed May 14, 2026

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Performance Profile

Intelligence7.7Technical7.9Value8Content7.5
Intelligence 7.7/10
Technical 7.9/10
Content 7.5/10
Value 8/10

GPT-5.4 nano is the most lightweight and cost-efficient variant of the GPT-5.4 family, optimized for speed-critical and high-volume tasks. It supports text and image inputs and is designed for low-latency..

Capabilities

Tool Use Function Calling Vision

Performance Indices

Source: Artificial Analysis

44 Intelligence Index
43.9 Coding Index
59.2 Agentic Index

Benchmark Scores

Intelligence

GPQA Diamond 81.7% Graduate-level scientific reasoning
HLE 26.5% Humanity's Last Exam
SciCode 46.9% Scientific computing

Technical

TerminalBench Hard 42.4% Agentic terminal tasks
τ²-Bench 76% Conversational agent benchmark

Content

IFBench 75.9% Instruction following
LCR 66% Long-context reasoning

Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face

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Model Information

OpenRouter ID openai/gpt-5.4-nano
Provideropenai
Release Date March 17, 2026
Context Length400,000 tokens
Max Completion128,000 tokens
Status Active

Pricing

Token Type Cost per 1M tokens Cost per 1K tokens
Input $0.20 $0.000200
Output $1.25 $0.001250

Live Performance

Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.

98.6%
Avg Uptime
570ms
Best Latency (TTFT)
78 tok/s
Best Throughput
2/2
Active Endpoints
Available via: Azure, OpenAI

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