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OpenAI

Pioneering general-purpose AI with the GPT-4 and o-series reasoning model families.

4
Models tracked
2015
Founded
o3
Flagship model
San Francisco
HQ

About

About OpenAI

OpenAI triggered the modern LLM era with GPT-3 in 2020 and the public AI inflection point with ChatGPT in 2022. Today it develops two parallel model lines: the GPT series for general-purpose tasks and the o-series (o1, o3, o4) for demanding reasoning problems. GPT-4.1 offers a 1M token context window while the o-series applies deliberate chain-of-thought inference before responding.

Key highlights

  • Industry-defining o-series reasoning models with deliberative inference

  • GPT-4.1 offers a 1M token context window for full codebase comprehension

  • Real-time multimodal capability: text, images, and audio in one model

  • OpenAI Batch API for 50%-discounted asynchronous high-volume jobs

  • Deep enterprise integrations via Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service

Models

4 models tracked

Context windows, pricing, capabilities, and API identifiers — everything you need to choose the right model for your workload.

Flagship

o3

2025

200Kcontext
TextCodeReasoning

OpenAI's most powerful reasoning model. Uses extended deliberative inference to tackle the hardest problems in mathematics, science, and software engineering.

  • Advanced chain-of-thought reasoning
  • Mathematics & science
  • Complex coding
  • Agentic planning
In: $10 / M tokens
Out: $40 / M tokens
o3

o4-mini

2025

200Kcontext
TextVisionCodeReasoning

A lightweight reasoning model with strong performance on STEM and coding tasks at significantly lower cost than o3, with added vision capability.

  • Fast reasoning
  • Cost-efficient
  • Vision support
  • STEM benchmarks
In: $1.10 / M tokens
Out: $4.40 / M tokens
o4-mini

GPT-4o

2024

128Kcontext
TextVisionCodeAudio

The standard multimodal GPT-4o model. Supports text, images, and audio natively. Default choice for conversational AI, customer support, and general-purpose generation.

  • Multimodal text + image + audio
  • Real-time responses
  • Broad general knowledge
  • Conversational AI
In: $2.50 / M tokens
Out: $10 / M tokens
gpt-4o

GPT-4.1

2025

1Mcontext
TextVisionCode

GPT-4.1 offers the largest context window in the GPT family (1M tokens) with improved instruction following and a focus on software engineering tasks.

  • 1M token context window
  • Improved instruction following
  • Large codebase analysis
  • Strong coding performance
In: $2 / M tokens
Out: $8 / M tokens
gpt-4.1

Use Cases

What OpenAI is best for

Each provider has specialisms shaped by their architecture decisions, training data, and API design. Here is where OpenAI performs best.

Advanced coding assistants
Scientific research & analysis
Multimodal applications
Enterprise chatbots
Large-scale data extraction

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