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GPT-5.4 Mini

GPT-5 economics for high-volume routine tasks.

GPT-5.4 Mini is a mid-tier model in OpenAI's GPT-5 series, designed to balance advanced capabilities and affordability for developers and product teams. It features an expansive 400,000-token context window and multimodal support for text, images, and file inputs, enabling diverse applications such as comprehensive document analysis and hybrid data workflows.

This model provides scalability and cost-efficiency for high-volume or demanding projects, making it ideal for tasks requiring detailed reasoning, extensive comprehension, or integration of multiple data types.

Positioned as a mid-tier offering in the GPT-5 lineup, GPT-5.4 Mini builds on its predecessors by introducing significant enhancements in multimodal functionality and expanding the context window to 400,000 tokens, optimizing it for broader developer adoption and diverse use cases.

Background

GPT-4o is a multilingual, multimodal generative pre-trained transformer developed by OpenAI and released in May 2024. It can process and generate text, images and audio.

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Specs

Context window
400K tokens
Max output
128K tokens
Input ($/1M tokens)
$0.750
Output ($/1M tokens)
$4.50
Modalities
File · Image · Text
Weights
Closed

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Capabilities

  • Tool use
  • Vision
  • Extended thinking
  • Prompt caching
  • Open weights

What it excels at

  • Large context window

    Enables handling of up to 400,000 tokens for complex reasoning, extended dialogues, and document processing.

  • Multimodal capabilities

    Processes text, images, and files, supporting mixed-data workflows across various applications.

  • Cost efficiency

    Offers optimized token pricing, making it affordable for sustained development workloads.

  • Scalable performance

    Designed to handle high-volume tasks with consistent reliability and efficiency.

When to use this model

  • Extensive document analysisHandles long-form research papers, legal documents, or enterprise-level text data.
  • Mixed data applicationsIntegrates text, image, and file inputs seamlessly for hybrid workflows.
  • API-driven integrationsSupports back-end functionalities for AI-powered app features with scalable performance.
  • Customer support systemsImproves customer interactions by retaining extended context during dialogues.

Analysis synthesized from gpt-4o, llama-4-maverick, phi-4, etc.

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API model id

gpt-5-mini

Vendor docs: platform.openai.com/docs

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