What is GPT-4o?

GPT-4o ("omni") is OpenAI's flagship multimodal model that processes text, images, audio, and video natively. It matches GPT-4 Turbo on text while being 2x faster and 50% cheaper — making it the go-to model for most production applications.

Our Review

GPT-4o is the pragmatic choice for most production workloads. The 50% cost reduction vs GPT-4 Turbo with comparable quality made it the de-facto standard across the industry. For tasks not requiring GPT-5's deeper reasoning, GPT-4o offers the best quality-to-cost ratio in OpenAI's lineup.

Key Use Cases

Production chatbots and assistants
Document analysis with images
Code generation and review
Customer support automation

Pros & Cons

✅ Pros

•Best price-to-performance in GPT-4 class
•Native multimodal: text + images + audio
•128k context window
•Fast response times vs GPT-4 Turbo
•Available in ChatGPT free tier

❌ Cons

•Slightly lower reasoning depth than GPT-5
•Image generation not included (separate DALL·E)
•No open weights

Pricing

$5/M input, $15/M output tokens

Who Should Use GPT-4o?

GPT-4o is best for production chatbots and assistants, document analysis with images.

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