OpenAI · Efficient
GPT 5.4 Nano
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.
- Reasoning
- Tools
- Vision
- Structured output
- PDF input
- Input
- Text, Images
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning effort
- none · low · medium · high · xhigh
- Discovery tier
- Efficient
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.20
- Output
- $1.25
- Cache read
- $0.02
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 400K
- Max output
- 128K
- Average output (7 days)
- 515 tokens
- Longer than 50% of 468 models
Side by side
GPT 5.4 Nano compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| GPT 5.4 NanoOpenAIThis model | GPT 6.1 Sol ProOpenAIRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | OpenAI |
| Discovery tier | Efficient | Frontier |
| Added | Mar 17, 2026 | Sep 29, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 400K | 1.05MBest |
| Max output | 128K | 128K |
| Average output | 515 tokens | 1.2K tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.20Best | $2.00 |
| Output | $1.25Best | $10.00 |
| Cache read | $0.02Best | $0.10 |
| Cache write | — | $2.50 |
| Performance | ||
| Request success (24h) | 100.0% | 100.0% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 11.7 | — |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Tools | Yes | Yes |
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Structured output | Yes | Yes |
| PDF input | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | none, low, medium, high, xhigh | low, medium, high, xhigh, max |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- GPT 5.4 Nano
- GPT 6.1 Sol Pro
Intelligence Index
- GPT 5.4 Nano11.7
- GPT 6.1 Sol Pro—
GPT 5.4 Nano: Better than 26% of 326 scored models
Document reasoning
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- GPT 5.4 Nano: 29.7%
- GPT 6.1 Sol Pro: —
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- GPT 5.4 Nano: 4.1%
- GPT 6.1 Sol Pro: —
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- GPT 5.4 Nano: 55.8%
- GPT 6.1 Sol Pro: —
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- GPT 5.4 Nano: 32.7%
- GPT 6.1 Sol Pro: —
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- GPT 5.4 Nano: 24.2%
- GPT 6.1 Sol Pro: —
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- GPT 5.4 Nano: 34.8%
- GPT 6.1 Sol Pro: —
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- GPT 5.4 Nano: 29.7%
- GPT 6.1 Sol Pro: —
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
- GPT 5.4 Nano
- GPT 6.1 Sol Pro
| Leaderboard | GPT 5.4 Nano | GPT 6.1 Sol Pro |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1–3) | #13 · 44.9% | Not in top 20 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Epoch AI leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.Epoch AI
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.
- Request success (24h)
- 100.0%
- Reliable
- 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-5.4-nano",
"reasoning_effort": "medium",
"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-5.4-nano",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)OpenAI
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