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GPT-4o: Fast, Intelligent, and Flexible
Released on May 13, 2024 as part of the GPT-4o lineup, GPT-4o sits alongside GPT-4o mini as the family's versatile, high-intelligence flagship model.
Built for a wide range of tasks, it delivers fast performance, strong reasoning, and flexible multimodal capabilities across languages and visual inputs. These strengths make it well-suited for workflows involving non-English language processing, enhanced visual understanding, and broad, intelligence-driven applications.
GPT-4o: Key Specs
Below are GPT-4o's main specs and how they translate into real-world behavior.
- Context Window - Up to 128,000 tokens: This capacity lets the model follow longer conversations or documents without losing track, helping it stay coherent across multi-step instructions or extended dialogue.
- Maximum Output Length - Up to 16,384 tokens: It can generate moderately long responses, making it suitable for summaries, structured explanations, and medium-length content without cutting off early.
- Speed and Efficiency - Medium-level responsiveness: The model delivers answers quickly enough for smooth interactions, offering a balanced pace that works well for both chat and productivity tasks.
- Cost Efficiency - Mid-range pricing: Its cost structure makes it practical for regular use, providing solid capability without the higher expense of premium-tier models.
- Reasoning and Accuracy - High, reliable performance: It handles everyday logic, analysis, and problem-solving with consistency, offering dependable accuracy for most standard and moderately complex tasks.
- Multimodal Capabilities - Supports text and images for both input and output: It can understand mixed visual and written content and generate responses in text or image form, enabling more flexible and creative workflows.
Compare GPT-4o, GPT-4, and GPT-4o mini
A brief overview of how each model differs in power, speed, and use cases.
| Feature | GPT-4o | GPT-4 | GPT-4o mini |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knowledge Cutoff | Oct 01, 2023 | Dec 01, 2023 | Oct 01, 2023 |
| Context Window (Tokens) | 128,000 | 8,192 | 128,000 |
| Max Output Tokens | 16,384 | 8,192 | 16,384 |
| Input Modalities | Text, image | Text | Text, image |
| Output Modalities | Text, image | Text | Text, image |
| Latency (OpenRouter Data) | 0.58s | 0.73s | 0.49s |
| Speed | Slower than GPT-4o mini | Medium (slower than GPT-4o mini) | Very fast (about 2x faster than GPT-4o) |
| Input / Output Cost per 1M Tokens | $2.5 / $10 | $30 / $60 | $0.15 / $0.6 |
| Reasoning Performance | High | Average | Average |
| Coding Performance (on SWE-bench Verified) | 30.80% | Unspecified | Unspecified |
| Best For | processing non-English languages and enhanced visual capabilities | solving difficult problems with greater accuracy | reasoning tasks involving both text and vision |
Source: OpenAI GPT-4o Documentation
Best Cases to Use GPT-4o
GPT-4o is best for processing multilingual and image-focused work.
- For students and learners: Use GPT-4o to understand multilingual materials, interpret diagrams or images, and receive clear explanations that make studying across languages and visual formats easier.
- For developers: Build apps that rely on strong multilingual support and visual interpretation, from analyzing images to handling complex non-English inputs with accuracy and speed.
- For businesses and teams: Translate documents, interpret visual assets, and review multilingual content to support global communication and streamline cross-border workflows.
- For product teams and app builders: Create features that combine language understanding and visual recognition, improving user experiences for products that serve diverse regions and content types.
- For operations and support workflows: Respond to multilingual inquiries, analyze screenshots or photos from users, and deliver clear guidance that improves service across languages and formats.
- For content and marketing helpers: Adapt visual and written content for international audiences, interpret design assets, and produce region-appropriate messaging that strengthens global communication.
How to Access GPT-4o
Accessing GPT-4o is simple, with both developer-friendly and instant-use options.
1. OpenAI API
You can use GPT-4o directly through the OpenAI API, requiring only an API key and active billing. This method is perfect for integrating the model into apps or technical workflows.
2. EssayDone AI Chat
For immediate access without configuration, GPT-4o is available in EssayDone AI Chat.
It provides the same model capabilities through an accessible interface suited to students, writers, and professionals.
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FAQ
Here are some frequently asked questions about GPT-4o.
Yes. GPT-4o provides high-level reasoning ability, with a reasoning performance roughly aligned with a rating of 3. It handles everyday logical tasks well, though it is not a top-tier reasoning model.
GPT-4o costs $2.5 per 1M input tokens and $10 per 1M output tokens. It is positioned as a mid-range option within the GPT models that support multimodal capabilities.
GPT-4o is optimized for multilingual processing, especially non-English languages, and tasks that benefit from its enhanced visual understanding. It is ideal for global communication, translation, and image-related workflows.
GPT-4o accepts text and image inputs and produces text and image outputs. It offers strong multimodal capabilities, making it well suited for tasks that require visual interpretation as well as language understanding.
GPT-4o provides stronger reasoning, better multilingual performance, and more advanced visual capabilities than GPT-4o Mini. The Mini version is faster and more cost-efficient but less capable in complex or visually detailed tasks.
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