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GPT-5.4: price, performance and context

Proprietary GPT-5.4 by OpenAI costs $2.50 per 1M input and $15.00 per 1M output tokens, handles up to 1.1M tokens in one request (≈ 3,200 pages of text) and scores 39 points on the AgentKernel performance index, rank 28 of 212.

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Updated Oct 09, 2026, 16:46 UTC · openai/gpt-5.4

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Key facts

Licence
Proprietary: no public weights, only through a provider API
Input / 1M tokens
$2.50
Output / 1M tokens
$15.00
Context window
1.1M tokens
Max. output
128K tokens
Performance index
39 points · rank 28 of 212
Coding index
71.1 points · rank 24 of 119
Agentic index
n/a
Cost at your usage
$6.25 / month
Knowledge cutoff
n/a
In the catalog since
Mar 05, 2026
Capabilities
Reasoning, Vision, Tool Calling, Files

What do you get for $10.00?

Rules of thumb from the cost calculator, base rates without caching or taxes.

TaskCost per taskFor $10.00
Chat repliesA question with a short history, a detailed answer$0.0081,200
Email draftsBullet points in, a finished email out$0.0071,500
Document summariesRead 10 pages, write a one-page summary$0.016630
Code reviewsReview and comment on 500 lines of code$0.029350
Book analysesAnalyse a 300-page book in one go$0.2835

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Ling 3.1 FlashinclusionAIProprietary41.1$0.00
MiMo-V2.6-FlashXiaomiOpen37.9$0.21
Claude Haiku 5.5AnthropicProprietary43.4$0.225

Stronger models

ModelLicencePerformanceYour cost / month
DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeekOpen39.5$0.60
Gemini 3.7 FlashGoogleProprietary39.6$1.688
Muse Spark 1.2MetaProprietary39.6$2.313

Open alternatives

ModelLicencePerformanceYour cost / month
MiMo-V2.6-ProXiaomiOpen46.3$0.653
GLM 5.3Z.aiOpen44.8$1.79
Kimi K3Moonshot AIOpen43.6$4.195