OpenAI · Frontier
GPT-4o
OpenAI's flagship multimodal model, handling text, images, and audio. Exceptional at understanding context and generating human-like responses.
- Tools
- Vision
- Input
- Text, Images
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Frontier
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $2.50
- Output
- $10.00
- Cache read
- $1.25
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 128K
- Max output
- 16.4K
- Average output (7 days)
- 101 tokens
- Longer than 10% of 468 models
Side by side
GPT-4o compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| GPT-4oOpenAIThis model | Qwen 3 235b A22BQwenRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Qwen |
| Discovery tier | Frontier | Open weights |
| Added | May 13, 2025 | Apr 29, 2025 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 128K | 262.14KBest |
| Max output | 16.38K | 16.38K |
| Average output | 101 tokens | 616 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $2.50 | $0.0875Best |
| Output | $10.00 | $0.35Best |
| Cache read | $1.25 | $0.0175Best |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | 69.2 tok/s | — |
| Time to first token | 1.4 s | — |
| Request success (24h) | 100.0%Best | 91.4% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 8.4Best | 8.3 |
| Math Index | 6.0 | 23.7Best |
| Capabilities | ||
| Tools | Yes | Yes |
| Vision | Yes | No |
| Structured output | No | Yes |
| PDF input | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | — | — |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- GPT-4o
- Qwen 3 235b A22B
Intelligence Index
- GPT-4o8.4
- Qwen 3 235b A22B8.3
GPT-4o: Better than 13% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Math Index
Composite of the math evaluations
- GPT-4o: 6.0
- Qwen 3 235b A22B: 23.7Top
Document reasoning
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- GPT-4o: 49.3%Top
- Qwen 3 235b A22B: 0.0%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- GPT-4o: 2.4%
- Qwen 3 235b A22B: 4.2%Top
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- GPT-4o: 54.3%
- Qwen 3 235b A22B: 61.3%Top
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- GPT-4o: 74.8%
- Qwen 3 235b A22B: 76.2%Top
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- GPT-4o: 34.3%
- Qwen 3 235b A22B: 36.6%Top
Coding
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- GPT-4o: 30.9%
- Qwen 3 235b A22B: 34.3%Top
Math
AIME 2025
Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
- GPT-4o: 6.0%
- Qwen 3 235b A22B: 23.7%Top
AIME
Competition mathematics
- GPT-4o: 15.0%
- Qwen 3 235b A22B: 32.7%Top
MATH-500
Competition math problems
- GPT-4o: 75.9%
- Qwen 3 235b A22B: 90.2%Top
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- GPT-4o: 8.3%Top
- Qwen 3 235b A22B: 6.1%
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- GPT-4o: 25.1%
- Qwen 3 235b A22B: 27.2%Top
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- GPT-4o: 49.3%Top
- Qwen 3 235b A22B: 0.0%
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
Live routing data
Performance and reliability
Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.
- Throughput
- 69.2 tok/s
- Faster than 45% of 254 models
- Time to first token
- 1.4 s
- Quicker than 92% of 254 models
- Prompt cache hits
- 56.8%
- About $1.79 per 1M input tokens with caching
- Request success (24h)
- 100.0%
- Reliable
Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.
- Healthy (98% or more)
- Degraded (90–98%)
- Down (under 90%)
- No requests
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "openai/gpt-4o",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="openai/gpt-4o",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)OpenAI
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