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MODEL PROOF # GPT-4o (2024-08-06) OpenAI · 06 Aug 2024 Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic BETTER VALUE OPTION ## A stored alternative has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price. **$4.38** / 1M tokens Balanced · 3 tokens in per 1 out [Gemini 3.8 Flash](/models/google__gemini-3.8-flash/) · Δ score 214.5 points · 31% lower measured price · $3.00 / 1M tokens [MiMo-V2.6-Pro](/models/xiaomi__mimo-v2.6-pro/) is a further stored option with these losses: no file input Evidence as of 06 Oct 2026 [openrouter/models](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) [LMArena · cc-by-4.0](https://huggingface.co/datasets/lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset) Independent LMArena score 1,282.5 ± 4.19 · 45,499 votes Context window 128K Maximum output 16.38K Input modalities text, image, file Output modalities text Published input price $2.50 / 1M tokens Published output price $10.00 / 1M tokens Pricing kind fixed Inspect [complete billing conditions](#billing-details) and endpoint terms below. Price from OpenAI: the cheapest offer that is serving, at standard delivery and at the maker’s precision or better, at its standard rate. Every price dimension · USD per million tokens | Input | $2.50 /M | | --- | --- | | Output | $10.00 /M | | Cached input | $1.25 /M | | Cache write | Unknown /M | | Cache write 1h | Unknown /M | | Reasoning | Unknown /M | ### Who sells it The same weights, different shops. Cheapest is not like-for-like when serving precision differs. 2 provider offers · rates, limits and conditions Rates are USD per million tokens. Endpoint terms can differ even when the quoted price and precision match. A listed parameter is a provider declaration, not a task-success test. | Seller | Input | Output | Precision | Uptime (1d) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Seller Azure azure Endpoint terms Cached input /M $1.25 Context limit 128,000 tokens Output limit 16,384 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Not listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 99.83% | Input $2.50 | Output $10.00 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 99.96% | | Seller OpenAI openai Endpoint terms Cached input /M $1.25 Context limit 128,000 tokens Output limit 16,384 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Not listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 100.00% | Input $2.50 | Output $10.00 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 99.95% | ### Independent scores | LMArena Elo | 1282.5 default | | --- | --- | LMArena Elo under CC BY 4.0. Absence of another board is not a score of zero. ### Capability | Context window | 128K | | --- | --- | | Max output | 16K | | Input modes | text, image, file | | Tool use | yes | | Reasoning | no | | Knowledge cutoff | 2023-10-31 | | Open weights | no | ### Provenance | Price source | [openrouter.ai](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) | | --- | --- | | Fetched | 2026-10-06 | | Quality data | verified | The 2024-08-06 version of GPT-4o offers improved performance in structured outputs, with the ability to supply a JSON schema in the respone_format. Read more [here](https://openai.com/index/introducing-structured-outputs-in-the-api/). GPT-4o ("o" for "omni") is... ## Questions this page answers What does GPT-4o (2024-08-06) cost? $2.50/M in, $10.00/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription. Does GPT-4o (2024-08-06) have an independent quality score? GPT-4o (2024-08-06) has an LMArena score in this catalogue. What beats GPT-4o (2024-08-06)? Gemini 3.8 Flash has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price. Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for GPT-4o (2024-08-06)? No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated. MODEL MONUMENT ## Save or share this proof Download proof card · 1200 × 630 Preview and more sharing options OpenAI: GPT-4o (2024-08-06). Balanced workload. Better value option available. Evidence as of 06 Oct 2026. Copy model link Download square card · 1080 × 1080 Copy landscape image Share landscape card ## Related - Both better and cheaper [Gemini 3.8 Flash](/models/google__gemini-3.8-flash/) - Higher score and cheaper, with a named trade [MiMo-V2.6-Pro](/models/xiaomi__mimo-v2.6-pro/) - Nearby on the capability axis [GPT-4.1 Nano](/models/openai__gpt-4.1-nano/) - Same vendor [gpt-oss-20b](/models/openai__gpt-oss-20b/) - OpenAI models [OpenAI](/providers/openai/) - Where this model appears [significance](/significance/) - Nearby on the capability axis [Llama 3.3 70B Instruct](/models/meta-llama__llama-3.3-70b-instruct/) - Same vendor [GPT-4 Turbo](/models/openai__gpt-4-turbo/) - Where this model appears [cheapest-at](/cheapest-at/) - Nearby on the capability axis [GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18)](/models/openai__gpt-4o-mini-2024-07-18/) - Same vendor [GPT-4o (2024-05-13)](/models/openai__gpt-4o-2024-05-13/) - Where this model appears [subscription vs API](/plans/) ## Badge The verdict as one SVG, for a README or a docs page. 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