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OpenAISmall / On-DeviceProprietary Commercial APIReleased: 2026-03-19

GPT-5.4 nano

Edge and on-device model featuring sub-80ms latency, 250k context, and $0.06/$0.24 per million token economics.

Foundation DNA78/100
DENSE ArchProprietary params
At a Glance Specifications
Context Window

250k

~188k words input

Token Pricing

$0.06 / $0.24

Prompt / Completion per 1M

Top Benchmark

76.8 % pass@1

MMLU-Pro

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:78/100
ReasoningCodingSpeedEconomicsContextFlexibility
Context: 88/100 (Window Horizon)
ReasoningGPQA / Logic / Math
77/100
CodingSWE-bench / LCB
77/100
SpeedTokens / Second
100/100
EconomicsCost Efficiency
100/100
ContextWindow Horizon
88/100
FlexibilityTool Use & Open
86/100
Performance Evaluations

Verified LLM Benchmarks

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

MMLU-Pro Headline
76.8% pass@1
lm-eval-harness
Academic ReasoningOpenAI Technical Documentation
HumanEval Headline
82% pass@1
lm-eval-harness
CodingOpenAI Technical Documentation
Chatbot Arena Elo Headline
1320Elo
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
200tokens/sec

Measured under concurrent production load

Lowest Time to First Token
80ms

p95 latency: 190 ms

Telemetry Verification
99.98%uptime

Across 7,000 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

  • 200 tokens/sec throughput with sub-80ms time to first token.
  • Fractional pricing ($0.06 / $0.24 per 1M tokens).
  • 250k token context window.
Production Constraints

Operational Considerations

  • Text only; best paired with larger teacher models for complex architecture.
Technical Specifications

Hardware & Execution Parameters

Architecture Typedense
Total ParametersProprietary
Attention MechanismSliding-Window
Context Window250,000 tokens
Max Output Tokens16,000 tokens
Supported Modalities
text
License Typeproprietary
Commercial Use Allowed
Model DistillationProhibited
Zero Data RetentionAvailable
Knowledge Cutoff2026-01
Model Heritage & Evolutionary Lineage

Genealogical Provenance

Nano-tier model in the GPT-5.4 release wave.

Base Precursor

openai gpt 5 nano

Current Architecture

GPT-5.4 nano

openai gpt 5 4openai gpt 5 4 mini
Engineering Deep-Dive

Architecture Engineering & Capability Deep-Dive

Topology & Attention Mechanics

Ultra-fast dense transformer architecture optimized for hardware edge inference.

Evaluation Profile & Reasoning Capabilities

Instantaneous classification, intent extraction, and light text summarization.

Inference Economics & Cost Optimization

$0.06 input per 1M tokens.

Primary Production Workloads & Suitability

Voice intent routing
High-frequency webhook processing
Real-time query normalization
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

250k 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

$0.06 / 1M

Standard prompt context ingestion

Base Output Tokens

$0.24 / 1M

Generated completion & thinking tokens

Prompt Cache ReadUp to 80% Off

$0.01 / 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

$13.20

Includes prompt caching

Monthly Cache Savings

-$3.00

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-nano',
  messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'Ping' }],
});
console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);
Knowledge Base

Frequently Asked Questions about GPT-5.4 nano

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

GPT-5.4 nano reaches 200 tokens per second with an 80ms TTFT.

Verified Engineering FAQ
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