Overview
GPT-4o is OpenAI’s latest flagship model, optimized for multi-step tasks. It represents a sweet spot between performance and efficiency, making it particularly attractive for production deployments that require high intelligence but need to manage costs.
Key Specifications
- Context Window: 128,000 tokens
- Output Limit: 16,384 tokens
- Training Cutoff: October 2023
- Pricing:
- Input: $2.50 per million tokens
- Cached Input: $1.25 per million tokens
- Output: $10.00 per million tokens
Performance Highlights
- Speed: Faster inference than standard GPT-4
- Cost Efficiency: 4x cheaper than GPT-4 Turbo
- Reasoning: Strong performance on complex logical tasks
- Consistency: Reliable outputs across different domains
Benchmark Results
Excellent performance across our benchmarks:
- TaxEval: Near top performance in tax reasoning
- LegalBench: Strong showing in legal analysis
- ContractLaw: High accuracy in contract interpretation
- CaseLaw: Competitive performance in case law understanding
Use Case Recommendations
Best suited for:
- Production API deployments
- Complex reasoning tasks
- Legal document analysis
- Financial modeling
- Tasks requiring balance of cost and capability
Limitations
- Unable to perform the same complex, multi-step reasoning as o1
Comparison with Other Models
- More powerful than GPT-4o Mini
- Competitive with Claude 3.5 Sonnet
- Better performance/cost ratio than most competitors