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GPT-5.4 API Pricing & Cost Calculator

GPT-5.4 is the standard workhorse for general-purpose applications. Prompt caching and batch discounts allow you to run high-intelligence workloads on a reasonable budget.

GPT-5.4 is a highly capable, general-purpose frontier model from OpenAI. It balances cost and high performance.

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Input tokens
100,000
per request
Output tokens
5,000
per request
Volume
100 / monthly
Standard API

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Cost Comparison

Based on 100,000 input tokens (50% cached), 5,000 output tokens, and 100 requests.Prices are fetched live from OpenRouter and may include temporary promotional discounts not accounted for in our article and comparison figures.

How this is calculated

GPT-5.4 is priced at $2.50 per million input tokens and $15.00 per million output tokens, supporting a 90% caching discount ($0.25 per million) and a 50% batch discount ($1.25 per million inputs, $7.50 per million outputs).

Verdict

At $2.50/M input and $15.00/M output a representative 100K + 5K call costs about $0.325, half GPT-5.5's $0.65 per call. A 90% cache hit strips input to $0.25/M, and the 50% batch discount drops both rows to $1.25/M input and $7.50/M output. That puts GPT-5.4 in the rare spot of carrying frontier-tier reasoning across the bulk of production traffic without wrecking the bill. Reserving it for cache-heavy agentic loops and routing stateless calls elsewhere keeps the per-token cost low enough to scale.

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Frequently asked questions

Does GPT-5.4 support prompt caching?
Yes, OpenAI offers a 90% discount on cached input tokens, reducing the input price to $0.25 per million for matches.
How much does GPT-5.4 cost per million output tokens?
GPT-5.4 charges $15.00 per million output tokens at standard pricing. With the 50% batch discount, that drops to $7.50 per million. The 90% prompt caching discount brings cached input to $0.25 per million, which makes multi-turn agentic loops extremely cost-effective since you reuse the system prompt and tool definitions.
How much does GPT-5.4 cost per request?
At standard rates, a 100K input + 5K output request costs $0.25 + $0.075 = $0.325. If 50% of the input is cached at $0.25/M, the input cost is $0.125 for 50K uncached tokens plus $0.0125 for 50K cached tokens, or $0.1375 total. Add $0.075 for output and the request costs $0.2125. If the 50% Batch API discount applies to the whole request, that total becomes $0.10625.