OpenAI: GPT-5.4

OpenAI: GPT-5.4

openai · Released Mar 5, 2026
Intelligence #37 / 650
70.9 our score
Speed #92 / 294
131.3 tok/s
Input Price #565 / 654
$2.50 per 1M tokens
Output Price #593 / 654
$15.00 per 1M tokens
Context #11 / 654
1.1M tokens

Analysis Summary

GPT-5.4 from OpenAI is built around agentic reliability, combining tool use, function calling, and vision in a single model with a context window exceeding one million tokens. Its agentic performance is strong, making it capable of sustained multi-step task execution.

For businesses, this suits automated workflows, document-heavy research, and agent-based customer support where tool orchestration matters more than raw reasoning depth. Its general intelligence benchmark is comparatively modest, so it is better suited to structured, tool-driven tasks than open-ended analytical reasoning.

Pricing sits in the mid-range for a flagship-class model. Teams already using OpenAI's ecosystem for agent workflows will find it a dependable choice, though newer siblings offer stronger all-round reasoning.

Assessed July 25, 2026

Editorial notes

GPT-5.4 pairs strong agentic tool use with a 1M+ token context and full vision support, though its reasoning benchmarks trail newer OpenAI releases.

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DFO Verdict

GPT-5.4 pairs strong agentic tool use with a 1M+ token context and full vision support, though its reasoning benchmarks trail newer OpenAI releases.

#37 of 650 overall

How OpenAI: GPT-5.4 compares

OpenAI: GPT-5.4 ranks #9 of 398 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #12 of 173 for coding, #19 of 154 for agentic tasks. Its 1.1M-token context window is larger than 98% of the models we list. At $2.50 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 14% of comparable models.

Position in the field
Intelligence: smarter than 94% of models #37
Speed: faster than 69% of models #92
Price: cheaper than 14% of models #565
Context: larger than 98% of models #11
worst in fieldmedianbest in field
Price vs frontier peers · $ per 1M tokens
OpenAI: GPT-5.4 $2.50 in $15.00 out
Anthropic: Claude Fable 5 $10.00 in $50.00 out
Claude Opus 5 $5.00 in $25.00 out
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 $5.00 in $25.00 out

Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.

Context window vs peers · tokens

1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.

Intelligence4Technical8.3Value6.3Content6.5
Performance profile

Strongest on technical. The pulled-in intelligence corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.

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Pricing

Token Type Cost per 1M tokens Cost per 1K tokens
Input $2.50 $0.002500
Output $15.00 $0.015000

What would OpenAI: GPT-5.4 cost your business?

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A website chatbot handling around 100 customer conversations a day, a few short messages each.

3,000
One request is one message, email, draft or automation call.
1,200 tokens

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About OpenAI: GPT-5.4

GPT-5.4 is OpenAI’s latest frontier model, unifying the Codex and GPT lines into a single system. It features a 1M+ token context window (922K input, 128K output) with support for..

Frequently asked questions about OpenAI: GPT-5.4

How much does OpenAI: GPT-5.4 cost?

OpenAI: GPT-5.4 costs $2.50 per million input tokens and $15.00 per million output tokens.

What is the context window of OpenAI: GPT-5.4?

OpenAI: GPT-5.4 has a context window of 1,050,000 tokens (1.1M).

Is OpenAI: GPT-5.4 good for coding?

On our coding benchmark index, OpenAI: GPT-5.4 ranks #12 of 173 models, placing it in the top quartile of the field for code generation and debugging.

What can OpenAI: GPT-5.4 do?

OpenAI: GPT-5.4 supports image/vision input, tool use, and function calling.

Who created OpenAI: GPT-5.4?

OpenAI: GPT-5.4 is developed by OpenAI and was released on March 5, 2026.

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