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GPT-4 Pricing
OpenAI · openai-gpt-4
Input / 1M tokens
$30.00
Output / 1M tokens
$60.00
Context window
8,191 tokens
Max output
4,096 tokens
What it costs in practice
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out tokens)$0.06
1,000 requests / month$60.00/mo10,000 requests / month$600.00/mo100,000 requests / month$6,000.00/moEstimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with GPT-4 preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.
Price history
Only one price point recorded so far.
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What it excels at
Performs well on multi-step reasoning, code generation, and instruction-following tasks within its context limit.
The business tradeoff
High per-token cost and 8k context window increase expense and constrain use on long inputs relative to current alternatives.
Cheaper from OpenAI
Head-to-head
Vendor list rates, as of Jun 15, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.