GPT-4o token cost

When to use GPT-4o

Multimodal OpenAI workhorse for chat and mixed text workloads. Still widely deployed; compare against GPT-4.1 / GPT-5 in TokenCalculator before locking a stack.

Pricing

Input

$2.50/1M

Output

$10.00/1M

Cached input

$1.25/1M

Batch input

$1.25/1M

Verified

2026-08-12

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