Cheapest GPT-5.4 lane for simple routing, extraction, and bulk automation
Specification
openai listing
Context
400K
Max output
128K
Released
2026-03-17
Knowledge cutoff
2025-08-31
Retires
2027-04-01
Open weights
no
Input
text, image
Output
text
Price
US dollars per million tokens · openai list price
Input
$0.20
Output
$1.25
Cache read
$0.02
Cache write
$0.20
Batch and priority prices
US dollars per million tokens · per listing
| Price | Listing | $/M |
|---|---|---|
| Batch input | azure | $0.10 |
| Batch input | azure | $0.11 |
| Batch output | azure | $0.625 |
| Batch output | azure | $0.6875 |
| Priority input | azure_ai | $0.40 |
| Priority output | azure_ai | $2.50 |
Batch input is 50% below the interactive input price at the same listing.
Quality
10 benchmarks · 2 sources
Composite
46th
percentile of 344 scored models
Rank
188 / 344
±0.07 sd
Evidence
10 × 2
3 or more benchmarks, from 2 or more sources
Effort range
18.9
points between effort settings
reasoning55th3/4 bench
math55th5/7 bench
knowledge4th1/1 bench
general20th1/1 bench
By reasoning effort
every setting placed on the same scale as the leaderboard
| Setting | Composite | Benchmarks behind it |
|---|---|---|
| xhigh | 66th | 2 |
| high | 50th | 9 |
| low | 40th | 5 |
| medium | 18th | 1 |
Every score
one row per source and configuration — nothing averaged away
| Benchmark | Score | Configuration | Source | Run |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath-v1 | 42.9 ±2.6 | high · 2 runs | Epoch AI | 2026-04-15 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 87.8 ±3.9 | high | Epoch AI | 2026-04-14 |
| ↳ | 68.9 ±7.0 | low | Epoch AI | 2026-08-07 |
| Settings differ by 18.9 points on this benchmark. | ||||
| GPQA diamond | 78.5 ±2.4 | high | Epoch AI | 2026-04-14 |
| ↳ | 72.2 ±3.2 | low | Epoch AI | 2026-08-07 |
| Settings differ by 6.3 points on this benchmark. | ||||
| Chess Puzzles | 45.0 ±5.0 | xhigh | Epoch AI | 2026-10-14 |
| ↳ | 36.0 ±4.8 | high | Epoch AI | 2026-10-13 |
| ↳ | 20.0 ±4.0 | low | Epoch AI | 2026-10-13 |
| Settings differ by 25.0 points on this benchmark. | ||||
| FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01 | 6.2 ±3.5 | high | Epoch AI | 2026-04-15 |
| FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2 | 44.9 ±3.0 | high | Epoch AI | 2026-06-12 |
| ↳ | 20.4 ±2.4 | low | Epoch AI | 2026-08-28 |
| Settings differ by 24.5 points on this benchmark. | ||||
| LiveBench | 70.8 | xhigh · 23 runs | LiveBench | 2026-06-25 |
| FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2 | 12.2 ±5.2 | high | Epoch AI | 2026-06-12 |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 6.0 ±2.4 | medium | Epoch AI | 2026-08-27 |
| ↳ | 5.0 ±2.2 | high | Epoch AI | 2026-08-27 |
| ↳ | 3.0 ±1.7 | low | Epoch AI | 2026-08-27 |
| Settings differ by 3.0 points on this benchmark. | ||||
| SimpleQA Verified | 11.7 ±1.0 | high | Epoch AI | 2026-08-27 |
The leading figure for a benchmark is the median across its configurations, so one heroic high-effort run cannot set the number.
Available from 39 hosts
| Host | In $/M | Out $/M | Cache rd | Cache wr | Context | Output | Retires |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| openaivendor | $0.20 | $1.25 | $0.02 | — | 400K 272K | 128K | 2027-04-01 |
| poe | $0.1818 | $1.1364 | $0.0182 | — | 400K | 128K | — |
| 302ai | $0.20 | $1.25 | $0.02 | — | 400K | 128K | — |
| abacus | $0.20 | $1.25 | $0.02 | — | 400K | 128K | — |
| aihubmix | $0.20 | $1.25 | $0.02 | — | 400K | 128K | — |
| aihubmix · aihubmix | $0.20 | $1.25 | $0.02 | — | 400K | 128K | — |
| azure | $0.20 $0.22 | $1.25 $1.375 | $0.02 $0.022 | — | 400K 272K | 128K | 2027-09-21 |
| azure_ai | $0.20 | $1.25 | $0.02 | — | 272K | 128K | 2027-09-21 |
| azure-cognitive-services | $0.20 | $1.25 | $0.02 | — | 400K | 128K | — |
| cloudflare-ai-gateway | $0.20 | $1.25 | $0.02 | — | 128K | 128K | — |
| crossmodel | $0.20 | $1.25 | $0.02 | $0.20 | 400K | 128K | — |
| databricks | $0.20 | $1.25 | $0.02 | $0.20 | 400K 272K | 128K | — |
| edenai | $0.20 | $1.25 | $0.02 | — | 400K | 128K | — |
| fastrouter | $0.20 | $1.25 | $0.02 | — | 400K | 128K | — |
| frogbot | $0.20 | $1.25 | $0.02 | — | 400K | 128K | — |
| github_copilot · github-copilot | $0.20 | $1.25 | $0.02 | — | 272K | 128K | — |
| github-copilot | $0.20 | $1.25 | $0.02 | — | 400K | 128K | — |
| impossibl | $0.20 | $1.25 | $0.02 | — | 400K | 128K | — |
| kilo | $0.20 | $1.25 | $0.02 | — | 400K | 128K | — |
| llmgateway | $0.20 | $1.25 | $0.02 | — | 400K | 128K | — |
| llmgateway-providers | $0.20 | $1.25 | $0.02 | — | 400K | 128K | — |
| merge-gateway | $0.20 | $1.25 | $0.02 | — | 400K | 128K | — |
| nano-gpt | $0.20 | $1.25 | $0.02 | — | 400K | 128K | — |
| nearai | $0.20 | $1.25 | $0.02 | — | 400K | 128K | — |
| neon | $0.20 | $1.25 | $0.02 | — | 400K | 128K | — |
| ofox | $0.20 | $1.25 | $0.02 | — | 400K | 128K | — |
| opencode | $0.20 | $1.25 | $0.02 | — | 400K | 128K | — |
| openrouter | $0.20 | $1.25 | $0.02 | — | 400K | 128K | — |
| opper | $0.20 | $1.25 | $0.02 | — | 400K | 128K | — |
| orcarouter | $0.20 | $1.25 | $0.02 | — | 400K | 128K | — |
| perplexity | $0.20 | $1.25 | $0.02 | — | — | — | — |
| prime | $0.20 | $1.25 | — | — | 400K | 128K | — |
| requesty | $0.20 | $1.25 | $0.02 | — | 400K | 128K | — |
| vercel | $0.20 | $1.25 | $0.02 | — | 400K | 128K | — |
| vivgrid | $0.20 | $1.25 | $0.02 | — | 400K | 128K | — |
| zenmux | $0.20 | $1.25 | $0.02 | — | 400K | 128K | — |
| zerogpu · zerogpu | $0.20 | $1.25 | $0.02 | — | 272K | 128K | — |
| aimlapi | $0.2116 | $1.3225 | $0.0212 | — | 400K | 128K | — |
| model-oracle-ai | — | — | — | — | 400K | 128K | — |
Price history
append-only observations · a listing writes a row only when its price moves
| Date | Host | Field | $/M |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-02 | azure | Cache read | $0.02 |
| 2026-09-17 | azure | Cache read | $0.02 |
| 2026-09-02 | ofox | Cache read | $0.02 |
| 2026-09-19 | ofox | Cache read | $0.016 |
| 2026-10-17 | ofox | Cache read | $0.02 |
| 2026-09-02 | openrouter | Cache read | $0.02 |
| 2026-09-06 | openrouter | Cache read | $0.02 |
| 2026-10-10 | openrouter | Cache read | $0.02 |
| 2026-09-02 | poe | Cache read | $0.018 |
| 2026-10-22 | poe | Cache read | $0.0182 |
| 2026-09-02 | azure | Input | $0.20 |
| 2026-09-17 | azure | Input | $0.20 |
| 2026-09-02 | ofox | Input | $0.20 |
| 2026-09-19 | ofox | Input | $0.16 |
| 2026-10-17 | ofox | Input | $0.20 |
| 2026-09-02 | openrouter | Input | $0.20 |
| 2026-09-06 | openrouter | Input | $0.20 |
| 2026-10-10 | openrouter | Input | $0.20 |
| 2026-09-02 | poe | Input | $0.18 |
| 2026-10-22 | poe | Input | $0.1818 |
| 2026-09-02 | azure | Output | $1.25 |
| 2026-09-17 | azure | Output | $1.25 |
| 2026-09-02 | ofox | Output | $1.25 |
| 2026-09-19 | ofox | Output | $1.00 |
| 2026-10-17 | ofox | Output | $1.25 |
| 2026-09-02 | openrouter | Output | $1.25 |
| 2026-09-06 | openrouter | Output | $1.25 |
| 2026-10-10 | openrouter | Output | $1.25 |
| 2026-09-02 | poe | Output | $1.10 |
| 2026-10-22 | poe | Output | $1.1364 |
| 2026-10-13 | aimlapi | Cache read | $0.0275 |
| 2026-10-23 | aimlapi | Cache read | $0.0212 |
| 2026-10-13 | aimlapi | Input | $0.2751 |
| 2026-10-23 | aimlapi | Input | $0.2116 |
| 2026-10-13 | aimlapi | Output | $1.7192 |
| 2026-10-23 | aimlapi | Output | $1.3225 |
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