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GPT-5 Turbo vs o4
OpenAI vs OpenAI. Specs, benchmarks, and real per-task cost — all in one page.
Verdict
GPT-5 Turbo is ~2.5× cheaper on a 3:1 input:output blend.
OpenAI
GPT-5 TurboOpenAI’s flagship unified model. Handles text, vision, and audio natively. The generalist benchmark champion.
Native multimodalStrong math and scienceHuge ecosystem
OpenAI
o4Deep-reasoning model. Spends more tokens thinking to crush math, science, and hard coding problems.
State-of-the-art math and scienceExtremely high-ceiling reasoning
Pricing
Input / 1M$6.00$15.00
Output / 1M$24.00$60.00
Context400K200K
Max output32K100K
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
Released2026-01-212026-02-18
Benchmarks
LMSYS ELO1398.0—
MMLU Pro91.293.8
HumanEval93.092.3
SWE-Bench65.868.0
MATH91.596.2
GPQA68.182.5
MMMU78.8—
IFEval88.9—
Per-task cost
Summarize a 1-hour meeting transcript$0.102$0.255
Review a 500-line pull request$0.096$0.240
Answer a customer support ticket$0.037$0.093
Extract structured data from a resume$0.054$0.135
Debug a stack trace with context$0.084$0.210
Per-call cost using published token counts for each task. Real-world prompts vary.