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GPT-5.4 Nano

OpenAI · released Mar 17, 2026

ProprietaryReasoningTool useStructured outputVision

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...

Specification

Context window
400K
Max output
128K
Knowledge cutoff
Aug 31, 2025
Parameters
Undisclosed
Licence
Proprietary
Serving providers
2
Moderated
Yes
Uptime
100.0%

Intelligence

39.7

87th percentile

Coding

56.1

Coding Index

Agentic

29.7

Agentic Index

Output speed

50 t/s

Median across providers

Latency

827ms

Time to first token

Cost per task

$0.11

Estimated

Benchmarks

Where the score comes from

The Intelligence Index is a composite. These are the underlying evaluations this model was actually measured on.

Evaluation scores

Percentage correct · higher is better

  • GPQA Diamond
    81.7%
  • τ²-bench (Telecom)
    76.0%
  • IFBench
    75.9%
  • AA-LCR (long context)
    72.0%
  • SciCode
    46.9%
  • Terminal-Bench Hard
    42.4%
  • Humanity's Last Exam
    28.3%

An evaluation missing from this list was not run for this model — it is not a zero.

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EvaluationScore
GPQA Diamond81.7%
τ²-bench (Telecom)76.0%
IFBench75.9%
AA-LCR (long context)72.0%
SciCode46.9%
Terminal-Bench Hard42.4%
Humanity's Last Exam28.3%

Against its peers

Intelligence Index · this model highlighted, nearest peers in grey

Peers are the models sitting closest on the Intelligence Index — the set you would realistically choose between.

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ModelIntelligence
GPT-5.4 Mini40.9
GLM 540.6
Qwen3.6 Plus40.5
GPT-5.4 Nano39.7
Qwen3.7 Plus39.4
GLM 5 Turbo39.1
M2.738.9
Claude Opus 4.638.8

Percentile among all indexed models

Intelligence87th
Coding72th
Agentic55th
Terminal work89th

Pricing

What it costs to run

List prices per million tokens, plus what one representative task works out to.

List price

Input / 1M tokens
$0.2
Output / 1M tokens
$1.25
Cached input / 1M
$0.02
Blended 3:1
$0.463

One task, estimated

$0.11

Input tokens
50,000
Output tokens
80,000
Profile
Reasoning

Estimated from list pricing: 50K input tokens plus 80K output tokens for reasoning models (25K for non-reasoning).

Serving providers

Speed and latency figures are medians across these providers, so a widely-served model reports a blend rather than any single endpoint.