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OpenAIReasoningProprietary Commercial APIReleased: 2026-03-05

GPT-5.4

March 2026 foundation model standardizing 83.8% SWE-bench Verified coding precision, 500k context, and $3/$12 economics for enterprise agent automation.

Foundation DNA93/100
HYBRID-REASONING ArchProprietary params
At a Glance Specifications
Context Window

500k

~375k words input

Token Pricing

$3 / $12

Prompt / Completion per 1M

Top Benchmark

83.8 % resolved

SWE-bench Verified

Hardware Tier

Cloud Managed

Zero local VRAM

6-Axis Foundation Model DNA

Holistic Capability Distribution

Normalized 0-100 rating vectors balanced across intelligence, throughput, and economics.

Overall Index:93/100
ReasoningCodingSpeedEconomicsContextFlexibility
Context: 96/100 (Window Horizon)
ReasoningGPQA / Logic / Math
96/100
CodingSWE-bench / LCB
96/100
SpeedTokens / Second
85/100
EconomicsCost Efficiency
88/100
ContextWindow Horizon
96/100
FlexibilityTool Use & Open
96/100
Performance Evaluations

Verified LLM Benchmarks

Empirical evaluations across academic reasoning, software engineering, agentic execution, and human preference.

SWE-bench Verified Headline
83.8% resolved
swebench.harness
CodingOpenAI Technical Documentation
GPQA Diamond Headline
87.5% pass@1
Inspect
Academic ReasoningOpenAI Technical Documentation
Chatbot Arena Elo Headline
1490Elo
LMSYS Blind Pairwise Battles
Human Preferencehttps://chat.lmsys.org/
Real-Time Provider Telemetry

Inference Latency & Generation Throughput

Empirical telemetry benchmarking generation throughput (Tokens/Second) and Time to First Token (TTFT).

Peak Generation Speed
88tokens/sec

Measured under concurrent production load

Lowest Time to First Token
330ms

p95 latency: 910 ms

Telemetry Verification
99.96%uptime

Across 3,600 monitored requests

Production Trade-Offs

Architectural Strengths vs. Operational Considerations

An objective technical balance sheet analyzing deployment advantages and production constraints.

Operational Advantages

Key Architectural Strengths

  • 83.8% SWE-bench Verified at affordable $3 / $12 pricing.
  • 96,000 max output tokens for single-pass repository refactoring.
  • Sub-second prefill across 500k context window.
Production Constraints

Operational Considerations

  • Surpassed in pure mathematical proofs by GPT-5.4 Pro.
Technical Specifications

Hardware & Execution Parameters

Architecture Typehybrid-reasoning
Total ParametersProprietary
Attention MechanismSliding-Window
Context Window500,000 tokens
Max Output Tokens96,000 tokens
Supported Modalities
textimageaudio
License Typeproprietary
Commercial Use Allowed
Model DistillationProhibited
Zero Data RetentionAvailable
Knowledge Cutoff2026-01
Model Heritage & Evolutionary Lineage

Genealogical Provenance

Major spring 2026 upgrade for the GPT-5 generation.

Base Precursor

openai gpt 5 2

Current Architecture

GPT-5.4

openai gpt 5 4 miniopenai gpt 5 4 nanoopenai gpt 5 4 pro
Engineering Deep-Dive

Architecture Engineering & Capability Deep-Dive

Topology & Attention Mechanics

Unified multimodal transformer with compiled test-time search graph execution.

Evaluation Profile & Reasoning Capabilities

Long-horizon agent planning, tool orchestration, and code refactoring.

Inference Economics & Cost Optimization

$3 / $12 per 1M tokens.

Primary Production Workloads & Suitability

Autonomous software development
Complex technical documentation auditing
Enterprise multi-tool workflows
Compute & Deployment Architecture

Cloud Deployment Architecture & Hardware Sizing

Cloud Deployment Architecture

Distributed enterprise serving infrastructure, autoscaling semantics, and runtime execution profile.

Cloud APIZero Local VRAM Required

Proprietary commercial model hosted on managed multi-region clusters with automatic autoscaling, high availability, and prompt prefix caching.

SLA: 99.9% Cloud Availability
Rate Limit: Scaled via Provider Quota
Cache: Automatic Prefix Compression
Serving Model

Multi-Tenant Cloud API

Continuous autoscaling with regional failover

Hardware Overhead

0 GB Local VRAM

Inference executed on hyperscaler accelerator clusters

Context Capacity

500k tokens

Supported with automated KV cache prefix compression

SDK Installation

$npm install openai
$pip install openai
Inference Economics & Total Cost of Ownership

Commercial Token Rates & Cost Estimator

Base Input Tokens

$3.00 / 1M

Standard prompt context ingestion

Base Output Tokens

$12.00 / 1M

Generated completion & thinking tokens

Prompt Cache ReadUp to 80% Off

$0.30 / 1M

Re-used prompt prefix context

Monthly Production Cost Simulator

Daily Prompt Ingestion5M tokens/day (~150M/mo)
Daily Completion Generation1M tokens/day (~30M/mo)
Prompt Prefix Cache Hit Rate40%
Estimated Monthly Spend

$648.00

Includes prompt caching

Monthly Cache Savings

-$162.00

Saved via prefix context caching

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Developer Quickstart

SDK Installation & API Integration

$npm install openai
$pip install openai
import OpenAI from 'openai';

const client = new OpenAI();
const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: 'gpt-5.4',
  messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'Refactor this full monorepo from webpack to Turbopack.' }],
});
console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);
Knowledge Base

Frequently Asked Questions about GPT-5.4

Engineering specifications, VRAM sizing, commercial licensing terms, token economics, and empirical benchmark evaluations.

GPT-5.4 brings 83.8% SWE-bench accuracy, 96k max output tokens, and lower pricing ($3/$12 per 1M).

Verified Engineering FAQ
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