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GPT-4o

Best all-around pick for image-heavy and multimodal workflows.

Coding

Writing

Research

Images

Value

Long Context

Published benchmarks

46%

SWE-bench

1,295

Arena Elo

88.7%

MMLU

53.6%

GPQA

76.6%

MATH

Use this when

Multimodal tasks and image-adjacent workflows

Skip this if

You need the latest reasoning or coding performance — GPT-5.4 replaces it for serious work.

Pricing

$0.15/1M in

$0.60/1M out

↓97%since May 2026

Context

128k tokens

Speed

Fast

Strong when your work lives between visuals, messaging, and product context.

How to access

Subscription

ChatGPT Plus — $20/mo

Free tier

ChatGPT Free — Limited access

API

$0.15/1M input tokens

Subscription = chat interface. API = build with it. Compare all subscription plans

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OpenAI: GPT-5 Image Mini

Strengths

Strong multimodal understanding across images, audio, and text

Good balance between speed and overall quality

Reliable for teams that mix content types regularly

Weaknesses

Outclassed by newer models on pure coding and reasoning

Gemini 3.1 Pro now handles multimodal at a lower price

Real-world use cases

What people actually use GPT-4o for.

Describing and analyzing product screenshots, diagrams, and UI mockups

Mixed-media prompts combining text instructions with image uploads

Visual content ideation and creative brief generation for design teams

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OpenAI: GPT-5 Image Mini

GPT-5 Image Mini is OpenAI's mid-tier multimodal model optimized for image understanding and generation tasks at a balanced price point. It supersedes GPT-4o with improved visual reasoning capabilities while maintaining a large 400K context window.

Verdict

A capable multimodal workhorse for image-heavy workflows that don't justify full GPT-5 flagship pricing.

Quality score

72%

Pricing

$2.50/1M in

$2.00/1M out

Speed

Fast

Best for teams needing strong image analysis and generation integrated with text workflows at a reasonable cost.

Context

400k tokens

Output cost of $2/1M tokens is unusual — lower than input cost, which favors use cases with long inputs but short outputs like image captioning or document summarization. Verify image generation token pricing separately, as image outputs are often billed differently by OpenAI.

MultimodalImage GenerationLong ContextBalanced PriceGPT-5 Family

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Teams needing strong image analysis and generation integrated with text workflows at a reasonable cost.

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