Model profile
openai

OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Nano

OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Nano is a budget-priced multimodal generalist from openai with partial runtime data, large context posture, and the clearest fit around long-context research / multimodal.

Best for: Long-context research / MultimodalN/A latencyLarge contextBudget pricing
Intelligence
N/A

Benchmark blend

Coding
N/A

Dev workflow signal

Context
400K Tokens

Large

Input Price
$0.20

Budget tier

Decision snapshot
87

OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Nano currently reads as a budget multimodal option with large context and a partially published runtime profile.

Overall profile
Flagship profile
Best for
Long-context research / Multimodal
Latency tier
N/A
Price tier
Budget
Source coverage
OpenRouterVision signal

Decision Strip

Decision rail before the raw tables

Core buy-side signals stay in one pass. The rest of the page expands only after intelligence, speed, context, and price are clear.

Intelligence
N/A
N/A

General reasoning and benchmark headroom.

Unavailable
Speed
N/A
N/A

Latency data is partial.

Unavailable
Context
400K Tokens
88

How much prompt and task state can stay in view.

Above average
Price
$0.20
86

$1.25 output / 1M

Efficient

Editorial Profile

OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Nano in one narrative

Positioning, tradeoffs, and fit are consolidated into one read instead of repeating the same story across separate cards.

Flagship profileCoding score N/AMath score N/AVision enabled

GPT-5.4 nano is the most lightweight and cost-efficient variant of the GPT-5.4 family, optimized for speed-critical and high-volume tasks. It supports text and image inputs and is designed for low-latency use cases such as classification, data extraction, ranking, and sub-agent execution. The model prioritizes responsiveness and efficiency over deep reasoning, making it ideal for pipelines that require fast, reliable outputs at scale. GPT-5.4 nano is well suited for background tasks, real-time systems, and distributed agent architectures where minimizing cost and latency is essential.

Identity

openai multimodal profile

Positioning

Long-context research / Multimodal with large context and partially published runtime.

Cost posture

Efficient spend profile. More comfortable for sustained prompt volume if the capability fit is right.

Strengths
  • Large context headroom supports repo-wide prompts and long research sessions.

  • Vision-capable routing opens up multimodal review and extraction workflows.

Tradeoffs
  • Budget-friendly input pricing is a strength, but raw capability may vary by workload.

  • Latency data is incomplete, so interactive responsiveness is harder to rank confidently.

Best fit
  • Image-grounded review, multimodal extraction, and UI audit workflows.

  • Long-context summarization, repo analysis, and policy or document review.

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Benchmarks

Grouped by job-to-be-done

Only benchmark categories with actual signal are shown. Secondary values stay as simple definitions instead of nested micro-cards.

No benchmark data is available for this model yet.

Specs & Pricing

Technical snapshot and cost posture

Specs stay neutral, pricing gets emphasis through values rather than extra containers. Raw provider internals remain in metadata at the end.

Technical snapshot
Context Window
400K Tokens
Vision
Enabled
Modalities
text, image, file->text
Price architecture
Input
per 1M input tokens
$0.20
Output
per 1M output tokens
$1.25
Blended
AA 3:1 mix
N/A

This model is relatively efficient on price. It is the easier fit when sustained prompt volume matters.

Metadata

Raw source tables at the end

Verification details remain available, but the page no longer forces them ahead of the editorial read.