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GPT-4o (2024-11-20) Pricing
OpenAI · openai-gpt-4o-2024-11-20
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 (2024-11-20) 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 complex reasoning, coding, and multimodal tasks that combine text with image or document inputs within a 128k context.
The business tradeoff
Output token pricing is four times input pricing; occasional factual inconsistencies remain on long or specialized queries.
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.