GPT-4o (2024-05-13)
OpenAI · released May 13, 2024
- Type
- Proprietary
- Input
- $5.00
- Output
- $15.00
- Cached
- Not published
List price · per 1M tokens · OpenAI at 128K context · source ↗
Our take
Written Aug 3, 2026GPT-4o is OpenAI's multimodal flagship from May 2024 that accepts text, images and files. It remains widely hosted with uniform pricing across providers, and its strongest measured category is coding rather than maths or creative writing.
Choose this when you need OpenAI's proven multimodal stack with broad benchmark coverage, or for coding tasks where it scores highest relative to its own other categories. Pick OpenAI's own hosting if throughput matters most. Skip it if you need price competition between providers, if maths-heavy work dominates your workload, or if you want to self-host or run the model locally.
The case for it
- Broad benchmark coverage across six Arena categories, each with two independent evaluation dates.
- Coding is the standout measured category, scoring 23.3 points above its own overall text score.
- Fastest throughput on OpenAI's own infrastructure, roughly double the rate measured on Azure.
The case against it
- Maths is the weakest measured category, sitting 41.2 points below its own coding score.
- No price competition across providers — every tracked host charges the same rate.
- Throughput on Azure is roughly half the direct rate, so infrastructure choice matters.
How good is it?
IntelligencePuzzles, maths, exam questions
Arena Text (overall)105th of 143 · 1345.9
CodingWriting and fixing code on its own
Arena Coding111th of 143 · 1369.2
Arena Coding is the only board that has scored it for this.
AgenticPlanning, calling tools, staying on task
GPT-4o (2024-05-13) is not on Arena Agent (IPS), which is where the rating would come from, so there is no rating here. It is on SWE-bench Verified, in 29th of 39 with 38.8.
WritingWe do not rate this
Two boards come close and neither tests writing: Arena Creative Writing asks people which of two replies they prefer, and LiveBench Language tests whether a model understood a passage. So we show where GPT-4o (2024-05-13) placed and give it no mark out of five.
These tests check whether a model follows instructions — a precondition for all the work above, but not a measure of how well that work is done, which is why they get no rating.
Every published score for this model7 scoresEvery figure we hold, from 7 boards, with who ran it and a link to the source — including the boards no rating above is built on.
Or rent it from someone else
Why this differs from the header. The strip above quotes OpenAI's own list price. This is the cheapest live offer at the widest standard context we hold, whoever is serving it — a reseller undercutting a lab is ordinary commerce, not an error.
- per 1M tokens
- $5.00 in / $15.00 out
- Context served
- 128K
- Throughput
- Not measured
| Provider | In / out per 1M tokens | Context | Throughput | Trains on prompts | Logs prompts | Zero retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $5.00 / $15.00 | 128K | not measured | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Microsoft Azure AI | $5.00 / $15.00 | 128K | 62 tok/s | No | No | Confirmed |
| OpenAI | $5.00 / $15.00 | 128K4K out | 177 tok/s | No | Yesunknown period | Unknown |
Microsoft Azure AIAcross the 3 listings we hold: 2 say they do not train on prompts, 0 say they do and 1 do not say. 1 appear in the zero-retention registry we check; the rest are unknown to us rather than confirmed either way.
What each host's API supports
From the parameter list each endpoint publishes. Streaming is omitted: nothing we hold reports it, for any model.
- ✓
- Supported
- ✗
- Not supported
- Not published
- host gave no parameter list
| Provider | Tool calling | JSON output | Strict schema |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Microsoft Azure AI | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| OpenAI | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Tool calling: 3 of 3 listings say yes. JSON output: 3 of 3 listings say yes. Strict schema: 3 of 3 listings say yes.
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When we formed this view
Dates behind this page
Prices last checked 9d ago
What we do not know about this model yet
- Nothing we hold says whether an endpoint streams, so we do not show it either way.
- 1 of 3 listings do not say whether they train on prompts.
- We hold no cached-input rate for any of its listings.
Licence and identifiers
What the licence allowsWe hold no licence record for this model. Inside are the identifiers you need to pull it — its Hugging Face repo where we have one, our slug and a machine-readable card.
Licence
Commercial API terms. We hold no licence record for this model, so there is nothing to summarise here.
Identifiers
- Modality record
- text+image+file->text
- Catalogue slug
- openai-gpt-4o-2024-05-13