Head-to-Head Pricing Benchmark

OpenAI: GPT-5 Image vs OpenAI: GPT-4 Turbo

Side-by-side pricing and context window comparison for production model selection.

Input delta: $0.00Output delta: $20Monthly delta: $1,200

Default Recommendation (120M input + 60M output)

OpenAI: GPT-5 Image is lower-cost for the default monthly workload scenario.

Adjust the workload in the calculator below to see a live recommendation for your usage.

MetricOpenAI: GPT-5 ImageOpenAI: GPT-4 Turbo
Developeropenaiopenai
Context Window400,000128,000
Input Cost / 1M Tokens$10.00$10.00
Output Cost / 1M Tokens$10.00$30.00
Projected Monthly Cost$1,800$3,000
Vision✅ Yes✅ Yes
Tool Calling✅ Yes✅ Yes
Structured Output✅ Yes✅ Yes
Reasoning✅ Yes❌ No
Web Search❌ No❌ No
MMLU ScoreN/A69.4

Price History

OpenAI: GPT-5 Image Pricing Trend

Input / 1M tokens0.0%Output / 1M tokens0.0%
Mar 7Mar 16
$10.00$10.00$10.00Mar 7Mar 9Mar 12Mar 14Mar 16

Current Input / 1M

$10.00

Current Output / 1M

$10.00

Price History

OpenAI: GPT-4 Turbo Pricing Trend

Input / 1M tokens0.0%Output / 1M tokens0.0%
Mar 7Mar 16
$10.00$20.00$30.00Mar 7Mar 9Mar 12Mar 14Mar 16

Current Input / 1M

$10.00

Current Output / 1M

$30.00

Cost Calculator

Adjust your workload to see projected monthly costs.

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0500M

OpenAI: GPT-5 Image

$1,800

per month

Lower cost

OpenAI: GPT-4 Turbo

$3,000

per month

Live Recommendation

OpenAI: GPT-5 Image is lower-cost at 120M input + 60M output tokens/month.

OpenAI: GPT-5 Image saves $1,200/mo at this workload
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