How much does the OpenAI GPT-5.4 API cost?

GPT-5.4 API pricing is $2.50 per million input tokens and $15.00 per million output tokens. Use our calculator at aiapicost.com for exact cost estimates based on your usage.

Which AI model is cheapest for API usage?

The cheapest AI API models change frequently. Use aiapicost.com to compare real-time pricing across 400+ models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek, and more. DeepSeek and open-source models typically offer the lowest per-token costs.

How do AI API token costs work?

AI APIs charge per token (roughly 0.75 words). Costs are split into input tokens (what you send) and output tokens (what the model generates). Output tokens are typically 2-5x more expensive. Prices are quoted per 1 million tokens.

Claude vs ChatGPT: which is better?

Both are top-tier models. Claude excels at coding and instruction-following, while GPT-5.4 offers broader multimodal capabilities. Compare them head-to-head at aiapicost.com/compare with real benchmark data.

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AI Model Benchmarks

Compare 511+ AI models across 12 benchmarks — Intelligence, Coding, Math, Science, and more. Data updated hourly.

Benchmarks:

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Model

Speed

$/1M

AA Index▼

GPQA

MMLU-Pro

LiveCode

AIME

HLE

GPT-5.5 (xhigh)

OpenAI

60 t/s

$11.3

60.2

93.5%

—

44.3%

GPT-5.5 (high)

OpenAI

63 t/s

$11.3

58.9

93.2%

—

43.0%

Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)

Anthropic

49 t/s

$10.9

57.3

91.4%

—

39.6%

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

Google

135 t/s

$4.5

57.2

94.1%

—

44.7%

GPT-5.4 (xhigh)

OpenAI

79 t/s

$5.6

56.8

92.0%

—

41.6%

GPT-5.5 (medium)

OpenAI

59 t/s

$11.3

56.7

92.6%

—

40.6%

Gemini 3.5 Flash (high)

Google

227 t/s

$3.4

55.3

92.2%

—

41.0%

Kimi K2.6

Kimi

95 t/s

$1.7

53.9

91.1%

—

35.9%

MiMo-V2.5-Pro

Xiaomi

54 t/s

$1.5

53.8

86.6%

—

33.8%

GPT-5.3 Codex (xhigh)

OpenAI

73 t/s

$4.8

53.6

91.5%

—

39.9%

Grok 4.3 (high)

xAI

94 t/s

$1.6

53.2

90.1%

—

35.0%

Claude Opus 4.6 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)

Anthropic

45 t/s

$10.9

52.9

89.6%

—

36.7%

Muse Spark

Meta

—

$0.00

52.2

88.4%

—

39.9%

Claude Opus 4.7 (Non-reasoning, High Effort)

Anthropic

42 t/s

$10.9

51.8

88.5%

—

31.2%

Qwen3.6 Max Preview

Alibaba

37 t/s

$2.9

51.8

88.8%

—

28.9%

Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)

Anthropic

67 t/s

$6.6

51.7

87.5%

—

30.0%

DeepSeek V4 Pro (Reasoning, Max Effort)

DeepSeek

29 t/s

$2.2

51.5

88.8%

—

35.9%

GLM-5.1 (Reasoning)

Z AI

53 t/s

$2.1

51.4

86.8%

—

28.0%

GPT-5.2 (xhigh)

OpenAI

67 t/s

$4.8

51.3

90.3%

87.4%

88.9%

99.0%

35.4%

GPT-5.5 (low)

OpenAI

58 t/s

$11.3

50.8

91.0%

—

31.0%

Qwen3.6 Plus

Alibaba

53 t/s

$1.1

50.0

88.2%

—

25.7%

DeepSeek V4 Pro (Reasoning, High Effort)

DeepSeek

30 t/s

$2.2

49.8

90.5%

—

33.5%

GLM-5 (Reasoning)

Z AI

68 t/s

$1.6

49.8

82.0%

—

27.2%

Claude Opus 4.5 (Reasoning)

Anthropic

54 t/s

$10.9

49.7

86.6%

89.5%

87.1%

91.3%

28.4%

MiniMax-M2.7

MiniMax

44 t/s

$0.53

49.6

87.4%

—

28.1%

Grok 4.20 0309 v2 (Reasoning)

xAI

84 t/s

$3.0

49.3

91.1%

—

32.2%

MiMo-V2-Pro

Xiaomi

70 t/s

$1.5

49.2

87.0%

—

28.3%

MiMo-V2.5

Xiaomi

89 t/s

$0.72

49.0

84.9%

—

25.2%

GPT-5.2 Codex (xhigh)

OpenAI

102 t/s

$4.8

49.0

89.9%

—

33.5%

GPT-5.4 mini (xhigh)

OpenAI

157 t/s

$1.7

48.9

87.5%

—

26.6%

Grok 4.20 0309 (Reasoning)

xAI

91 t/s

$3.0

48.5

88.5%

—

30.0%

Gemini 3 Pro Preview (high)

Google

141 t/s

$4.5

48.4

90.8%

89.8%

91.7%

95.7%

37.2%

GPT-5.4 (low)

OpenAI

63 t/s

$5.6

47.9

87.1%

—

28.9%

GPT-5.1 (high)

OpenAI

120 t/s

$3.4

47.7

87.3%

87.0%

86.8%

94.0%

26.5%

GLM-5-Turbo

Z AI

—

$0.00

46.8

84.7%

—

25.4%

Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning)

Kimi

36 t/s

$1.1

46.8

87.9%

—

29.4%

GPT-5.2 (medium)

OpenAI

—

$4.8

46.6

86.4%

85.9%

89.4%

96.7%

24.9%

DeepSeek V4 Flash (Reasoning, Max Effort)

DeepSeek

98 t/s

$0.17

46.5

89.4%

—

32.1%

Claude Opus 4.6 (Non-reasoning, High Effort)

Anthropic

43 t/s

$10.9

46.5

84.0%

—

18.6%

Gemini 3 Flash Preview (Reasoning)

Google

196 t/s

$1.1

46.4

89.8%

89.0%

90.8%

97.0%

34.7%

DeepSeek V4 Flash (Reasoning, High Effort)

DeepSeek

—

$0.17

46.0

86.7%

—

27.8%

Qwen3.6 27B (Reasoning)

Alibaba

63 t/s

$1.4

45.8

84.2%

—

21.6%

Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Reasoning)

Alibaba

52 t/s

$1.4

45.0

89.3%

—

27.3%

MiMo-V2-Omni-0327

Xiaomi

110 t/s

$0.80

44.9

85.5%

—

20.4%

GPT-5 (high)

OpenAI

89 t/s

$3.4

44.6

85.4%

87.1%

84.6%

94.3%

26.5%

GPT-5 Codex (high)

OpenAI

166 t/s

$3.4

44.6

83.7%

86.5%

84.0%

98.7%

25.6%

Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, High Effort)

Anthropic

48 t/s

$6.6

44.4

79.9%

—

13.2%

GPT-5.4 nano (xhigh)

OpenAI

155 t/s

$0.46

44.0

81.7%

—

26.5%

KAT Coder Pro V2

KwaiKAT

116 t/s

$0.53

43.8

85.5%

—

16.0%

GLM-5.1 (Non-reasoning)

Z AI

48 t/s

$2.1

43.8

83.9%

—

25.6%

Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning)

Alibaba

176 t/s

$0.56

43.5

84.1%

—

20.2%

MiMo-V2-Omni

Xiaomi

112 t/s

$0.00

43.4

82.8%

—

19.9%

GPT-5.1 Codex (high)

OpenAI

170 t/s

$3.4

43.1

86.0%

84.9%

95.7%

23.4%

Claude Opus 4.5 (Non-reasoning)

Anthropic

50 t/s

$10.9

43.1

81.0%

88.9%

73.8%

62.7%

12.9%

Claude 4.5 Sonnet (Reasoning)

Anthropic

46 t/s

$6.6

43.0

83.4%

87.5%

71.4%

88.0%

17.3%

Kimi K2.6 (Non-reasoning)

Kimi

98 t/s

$1.7

42.9

78.8%

—

18.2%

GLM 5V Turbo (Reasoning)

Z AI

—

$0.00

42.9

80.9%

—

15.8%

Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, Low Effort)

Anthropic

52 t/s

$6.6

42.6

79.7%

—

10.8%

GLM-4.7 (Reasoning)

Z AI

85 t/s

$1.0

42.1

85.9%

85.6%

89.4%

95.0%

25.1%

Qwen3.5 27B (Reasoning)

Alibaba

90 t/s

$0.82

42.1

85.8%

—

22.2%

GPT-5 (medium)

OpenAI

79 t/s

$3.4

42.0

84.2%

86.7%

70.3%

91.7%

23.5%

Claude 4.1 Opus (Reasoning)

Anthropic

37 t/s

$32.8

42.0

80.9%

88.0%

65.4%

80.3%

11.9%

Hy3-preview (Reasoning)

Tencent

123 t/s

$0.20

41.9

86.7%

—

25.5%

MiniMax-M2.5

MiniMax

87 t/s

$0.53

41.9

84.8%

—

19.1%

DeepSeek V3.2 (Reasoning)

DeepSeek

—

$0.34

41.7

84.0%

86.2%

92.0%

22.2%

Qwen3.5 122B A10B (Reasoning)

Alibaba

160 t/s

$1.1

41.6

85.7%

—

23.4%

MiMo-V2-Flash (Feb 2026)

Xiaomi

150 t/s

$0.15

41.5

83.5%

—

20.0%

Grok 4

xAI

—

$11.0

41.5

87.7%

86.6%

81.9%

92.7%

23.9%

Gemini 3 Pro Preview (low)

Google

—

$4.5

41.3

88.7%

89.5%

85.7%

86.7%

27.6%

GPT-5 mini (high)

OpenAI

98 t/s

$0.69

41.2

82.8%

83.7%

83.8%

90.7%

19.7%

GPT-5.5 (Non-reasoning)

OpenAI

58 t/s

$11.3

40.9

76.8%

—

12.6%

Kimi K2 Thinking

Kimi

113 t/s

$1.1

40.9

83.8%

84.8%

85.3%

94.7%

22.3%

o3-pro

OpenAI

22 t/s

$35.0

40.7

84.5%

—

GLM-5 (Non-reasoning)

Z AI

51 t/s

$1.6

40.6

66.6%

—

7.2%

Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Non-reasoning)

Alibaba

53 t/s

$1.4

40.1

86.1%

—

18.8%

Qwen3 Max Thinking

Alibaba

45 t/s

$2.4

39.8

86.1%

—

26.2%

MiniMax-M2.1

MiniMax

92 t/s

$0.53

39.4

83.0%

87.5%

81.0%

82.7%

22.2%

DeepSeek V4 Pro (Non-reasoning)

DeepSeek

29 t/s

$2.2

39.3

71.7%

—

7.7%

Gemma 4 31B (Reasoning)

Google

36 t/s

$0.00

39.2

85.7%

—

22.7%

Mistral Medium 3.5

Mistral

155 t/s

$3.0

39.2

74.8%

—

12.8%

GPT-5 (low)

OpenAI

64 t/s

$3.4

39.2

80.8%

86.0%

76.3%

83.0%

18.4%

MiMo-V2-Flash (Reasoning)

Xiaomi

148 t/s

$0.15

39.2

84.6%

84.3%

86.8%

96.3%

21.1%

Claude 4 Opus (Reasoning)

Anthropic

33 t/s

$32.8

39.0

79.6%

87.3%

63.6%

73.3%

11.7%

GPT-5 mini (medium)

OpenAI

110 t/s

$0.69

38.9

80.3%

82.8%

69.2%

85.0%

14.6%

Claude 4 Sonnet (Reasoning)

Anthropic

49 t/s

$6.6

38.7

77.7%

84.2%

65.5%

74.3%

9.6%

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

xAI

—

$0.00

38.6

85.3%

85.4%

82.2%

89.3%

17.6%

Qwen3.5 Omni Plus

Alibaba

56 t/s

$1.5

38.6

82.6%

—

13.9%

GPT-5.1 Codex mini (high)

OpenAI

177 t/s

$0.69

38.6

81.3%

82.0%

83.6%

91.7%

16.9%

Step 3.5 Flash 2603

StepFun

187 t/s

$0.00

38.5

82.6%

—

22.6%

Ring-2.6-1T

InclusionAI

—

$0.00

38.5

85.7%

—

18.3%

OpenAI

86 t/s

$3.5

38.4

82.7%

85.3%

80.8%

88.3%

20.0%

GPT-5.4 nano (medium)

OpenAI

150 t/s

$0.46

38.1

76.1%

—

14.7%

Step 3.5 Flash

StepFun

193 t/s

$0.15

37.8

83.1%

—

19.1%

GPT-5.4 mini (medium)

OpenAI

150 t/s

$1.7

37.7

82.3%

—

17.1%

Kimi K2.5 (Non-reasoning)

Kimi

34 t/s

$1.2

37.3

78.9%

—

12.3%

Qwen3.5 27B (Non-reasoning)

Alibaba

90 t/s

$0.83

37.2

84.2%

—

13.2%

Claude 4.5 Haiku (Reasoning)

Anthropic

110 t/s

$2.2

37.1

67.2%

76.0%

61.5%

83.7%

9.7%

Qwen3.6 27B (Non-reasoning)

Alibaba

59 t/s

$1.4

37.1

82.9%

—

13.6%

Claude 4.5 Sonnet (Non-reasoning)

Anthropic

46 t/s

$6.6

37.1

72.7%

86.0%

59.0%

37.0%

7.1%

100

Qwen3.5 35B A3B (Reasoning)

Alibaba

131 t/s

$0.69

37.1

84.5%

—

19.7%

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Benchmark Guide

Intelligence

Source ↗

Composite score across math, science, coding

GPQA

Source ↗

Graduate-level science Q&A (Diamond)

MMLU-Pro

Source ↗

Knowledge & reasoning across 57 subjects

LiveCodeBench

Source ↗

Live coding benchmark with new problems

AIME 2025

Source ↗

American Invitational Math Exam

MATH-500

Source ↗

Competition-level math problems

HLE

Source ↗

Humanity's Last Exam - hardest questions

Coding

Source ↗

Composite coding benchmark score

Math

Source ↗

Composite math benchmark score

SciCode

Source ↗

Scientific coding problems

IFBench

Source ↗

Instruction following benchmark

TerminalBench

Source ↗

Terminal/CLI task completion

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