Post-Cutoff

OpenAIGPT-5 familyLegacyReasoning modelReleased 5 Mar 2026

GPT-5.4

Model idgpt-5.4

Price$2.50 in, $15 out per 1M tokens

Checked29 September 2026

Knows up to August 2025

2,002events after its cutoff

87 historic, 461 major. 439 days of news.

It launched on 5 March 2026, already missing 86 of them. Coverage before 2026 is thin (80 entries for 2025), so this count is a floor.

Five things it has never heard of

Its cutoff, August 2025, is before this chart starts: every mark here is news it has never seen.

How to call it

4 ways to use GPT-5.4, with the model id each provider expects.

Providers, model ids, endpoints and docs for GPT-5.4
ProviderModel idEndpointDocs
OpenAI API gpt-5.4 https://api.openai.com/v1/responses developers.openai.com
Azure OpenAI (Microsoft Foundry) gpt-5.4 learn.microsoft.com
OpenRouter openai/gpt-5.4 openrouter.ai
Web app chatgpt.com

Pricing

Prices for GPT-5.4
Input$2.50 per 1M tokens
Cached input$0.25 per 1M tokens
Output$15 per 1M tokens

As published: “per 1M tokens (USD), standard tier”. Note: prompts >272K input tokens billed 2x input / 1.5x output.

Source: developers.openai.com, checked 29 September 2026.

Specs

Input
Text and images
Output
Text
Context window
1,050,000 tokens
Max output
128,000 tokens
Open weights
No
Licence
Proprietary
Training cutoff
August 2025
Released
5 March 2026
Status
Legacy
Type
Reasoning model

What stands out

What its maker marketed at launch, and what people found later, each with its source.

Four assistants, one scale

GPT-5.4 is added as a fifth row. Each row runs from what the model knows (graphite) through the months between its cutoff and its launch (hatched) to today (pink).

  1. GPT-6 Astra 271 at launch, 1,863 today
  2. Claude Opus 5.5 372 at launch, 1,795 today
  3. Gemini 4 Hydrogen 1,863 at launch, 1,889 today
  4. Grok 4.7 387 at launch, 1,829 today
  5. GPT-5.4 86 at launch, 2,002 today
Show as a table
ModelCutoffReleasedMissing at launchMissing today
GPT-6 AstraApril 20263 September 20262711,863
Claude Opus 5.5June 202622 September 20263721,795
Gemini 4 HydrogenMarch 202612 November 20261,8631,889
Grok 4.7May 202621 September 20263871,829
GPT-5.4August 20255 March 2026862,002

Notes

Snapshot gpt-5.4-2026-03-05. Variants gpt-5.4-pro ($30/$180), gpt-5.4-mini ($0.75/$4.50), gpt-5.4-nano ($0.20/$1.25) are also on the pricing page and OpenRouter.

curl https://api.openai.com/v1/responses \
 -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
 -d '{"model":"gpt-5.4","input":"Hello"}'

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