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GPT-4o (2024-05-13) Pricing

OpenAI · openai-gpt-4o-2024-05-13

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Input / 1M tokens
$5.00
Output / 1M tokens
$15.00
Context window
128k tokens
≈ 171 pages of text
Max output
4,096 tokens

What it costs in practice

Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out tokens)$0.012
1,000 requests / month$12.00/mo10,000 requests / month$120.00/mo100,000 requests / month$1,200.00/mo
Estimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with GPT-4o (2024-05-13) preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.

Price history

Only one price point recorded so far.

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What it excels at

Strong results on multimodal reasoning, coding, and structured output tasks with 128k context.

The business tradeoff

Output pricing at $15/M tokens is high; performance can degrade on very long or complex chains without careful prompting.

Cheaper from OpenAI

GPT-5.6 Luna ProOpenAI$0.0004/ typical requestGPT-5.5 (batch)OpenAI$0.009/ typical requestGPT-5.4 MiniOpenAI$0.0027/ typical request

Same tier from other providers

Claude Fable 5Anthropic$0.032/ typical requestQwen3.7 PlusQwen$0.0009/ typical requestGrok 4.3xAI$0.0025/ typical request

Head-to-head

GPT-4o (2024-05-13) vs Claude Fable 5 →GPT-4o (2024-05-13) vs Qwen3.7 Plus →GPT-4o (2024-05-13) vs Grok 4.3 →

Vendor list rates, as of Jun 15, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.