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GPT-5.4 Nano (batch)

by OpenAI · openai/gpt-5.4-nano:batch · #99 cheapest of 422 paid models

Prices updated Sep 19, 2026, 6:21 PM UTC · refreshed hourly

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...

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Pricing

Input

$0.10

per 1M tokens

Output

$0.625

per 1M tokens

Blended (3:1)

$0.231

3 input : 1 output

Cache read

$0.01

per 1M cached tokens

Cache write

per 1M tokens

Cache & batch economics

Effective prices for GPT-5.4 Nano (batch) with prompt caching.

Cache hit rateEffective blended $/1MExample request*vs no cache
0%$0.231$0.0108
50%$0.198$0.006325−42%
90%$0.17$0.002725−75%

*Example: 100K sticky context + 2K new input + 1K output. Batch discount is an approximate 50% off list rates for this provider’s batch API. Confirm on the vendor’s pricing page.

What a request costs

WorkloadInput tokensOutput tokensCost / requestCost / 1K requests
Short chat message500300$0.000237$0.2375
Document summary8,0001,000$0.001425$1.43
Codebase question (RAG)30,0002,000$0.00425$4.25
Long-context analysis150,0005,000$0.0181$18.13

Performance

Intelligence Index

21.2

AA composite quality

Coding Index

56.1

Math Index

Agentic Index

17.7

Output speed

0 tok/s

median

Time to first token

0s

median

Time to first answer

0s

after reasoning tokens

Artificial Analysis benchmarks

BenchmarkScore
GPQA Diamond81.7%
Humanity's Last Exam28.3%
SciCode47.2%
IFBench75.9%
AA-LCR (Long Context Reasoning)76.7%
Terminal-Bench Hard42.4%
Terminal-Bench 2.160.7%
τ²-Bench (Telecom)76.0%
τ³-Bench Banking27.4%

Specs

Context window

400K

tokens

Max output

128K

tokens

Input modalities

file, image, text

Tokenizer

GPT