GPT-4o (2024-08-06): pricing, context and benchmarks

What you need to know about GPT-4o (2024-08-06)

GPT-4o (2024-08-06) was released by OpenAI (United States) on August 6, 2024. It accepts text, images, and files as input and produces text. Its context window reaches 128,000 tokens, larger than 19 % of the models in the registry, and it can write up to 16,384 tokens in one go.

Released more than 2 years ago, it belongs to a generation most vendors have since superseded.

GPT-4o (2024-08-06) pricing

On OpenRouter, GPT-4o (2024-08-06) costs $2.5 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens. Counting three tokens read for every token written, its average price is $4.375 per million, more expensive than 86 % of paid models (5.7 times the median of $0.76).

A concrete example: a task that sends 2,000 tokens (about 1,500 words) and receives a 500-token answer costs $0.01. At 1,000 tasks a day, budget $300 a month. The price calculator redoes this with your own volumes.

Tokens already sent and cached are billed at $1.25 per million.

Performance and benchmarks

Epoch AI does not yet publish a capabilities index for GPT-4o (2024-08-06). We therefore show no made-up performance rating: only price, context and features count towards its score.

Scores published by Epoch AI on the benchmarks the site tracks:

Features, privacy and local use

• It supports tool calling, so it can drive an AI agent, call APIs or MCP servers.
• It can answer in an enforced JSON format (structured outputs).
• Its knowledge stops at October 2023.

Its weights are not published: it can only be used through the OpenAI API or a broker such as OpenRouter, which means sending your data off your machines.

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