GPT-4o vs o1
Pricing, benchmarks, and use case comparison
Quick take
- •GPT-4o is meaningfully stronger at speed (85 vs 30 on our capability index).
- •o1 is meaningfully stronger at math (88 vs 62).
- •GPT-4o is 83% cheaper on input tokens, which compounds fast on high-volume or agentic workloads.
Specs comparison
| GPT-4o | o1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | OpenAI |
| Type | Closed source | Closed source |
| Context window | 128,000 tokens (16,384 max output) | ✓200,000 tokens (100,000 max output) |
| Input / 1M tokens | ✓$2.50 | $15.00 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $10.00 | $60.00 |
| Release date | 2024-05 | 2024-12 |
Benchmarks
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 88.7% | - |
| HumanEval | 90.2% | - |
| MATH | 76.6% | - |
| AIME 2024 | - | 74% |
| GPQA Diamond | - | 77.3% |
| Codeforces | - | ~89th percentile |
Scores sourced from official provider release posts and independent benchmark aggregators.
Which should you choose?
Choose GPT-4o if...
- →Everyday assistant, drafting, summarization, and classification tasks
- →Latency- and cost-sensitive applications at scale
- →Multimodal tasks needing image understanding with fast responses
Choose o1 if...
- →Hard, multi-step math, science, and logic problems that reward deliberate reasoning
- →Competitive programming and algorithmic problem solving
- →Existing o1-based pipelines already validated for reasoning tasks