OpenAI

GPT-5.4 Nano

OpenAI's cheapest tier — $0.20/$1.25 for bulk workloads.

API onlytextimagefileREL 2026-03-17

Compare this model →Verified 2026-06-12

Overview

GPT-5.4 Nano is OpenAI's high-volume budget model: $0.20/$1.25 per 1M tokens with a 400K context window. It targets classification, routing, extraction and other bulk tasks where per-call cost dominates.

Benchmark scores

Methodology →

Intelligence44

Codingn/a

Reasoningn/a

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Sources and verification

Intelligence: Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · checked 2026-06-12
Catalogue and pricing: OpenRouter model record · checked 2026-06-12

Strengths

Very cheap
Low latency
400K context for the price

Trade-offs

Weak on multi-step reasoning
Not for coding

Reach for this model when

Bulk pipelines: tagging, moderation, routing, short summaries.

Run something like it locally

This is exactly the tier where local models win — a 7–14B model on Ollama does most Nano jobs at zero marginal cost.

Ollama

One-command local LLM runtime.

OPEN SOURCECPU-CAPABLE