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GPT-4o Pricing
OpenAI · openai-gpt-4o
Input / 1M tokens
$2.50
Output / 1M tokens
$10.00
Context window
128k tokens
≈ 171 pages of text
Max output
16,384 tokens
What it costs in practice
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out tokens)$0.007
1,000 requests / month$7.00/mo10,000 requests / month$70.00/mo100,000 requests / month$700.00/moEstimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with GPT-4o preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.
Price history
List price per 1M tokens since we started tracking in Jun 2026. The lines are flat because the price hasn't changed since then.
What it excels at
Strong results on reasoning, coding, and vision-language tasks with 128k context window.
The business tradeoff
Output pricing at $10 per million tokens increases cost for long generations; tied to commercial API with no on-premise option.
Cheaper from OpenAI
Head-to-head
Vendor list rates, as of Jul 15, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.