GPT-4 vs GPT-5.4 Nano
GPT-5.4 Nano leads GPT-4 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 20.7 to 6.7, and GPT-5.4 Nano costs 48.0x less per output token ($1.25 vs $60.00 per million). Updated October 21, 2026; 35 benchmarks have a result for both.
GPT-4 or GPT-5.4 Nano: which to pick
Only GPT-5.4 Nano has a coding score, 44.8 on the Vibe Coding Index; GPT-4 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Compare them on price, context and the boards below.
- Shared results
- 35
- GPT-4 only
- 10
- GPT-5.4 Nano only
- 50
- Like-for-like categories
- 6 of 9
Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Only GPT-5.4 Nano has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
GPT-5.4 Nano
GPT-5.4 Nano leads, 20.7 against 6.7.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only GPT-5.4 Nano has a AA Agentic Index result, 16.0.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only GPT-5.4 Nano has a GPQA Diamond result, 77.5%.
Directional only
Math
AIME
No call
Only GPT-5.4 Nano has a AIME result, 88.8%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only GPT-5.4 Nano has a MMLU Pro result, 77.2%.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
GPT-5.4 Nano
GPT-5.4 Nano takes 400K tokens against 8K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
GPT-5.4 Nano
GPT-4 $0.060, GPT-5.4 Nano $0.0008 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only GPT-5.4 Nano has the number, $0.14.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- GPT-4 not benchmarked, GPT-5.4 Nano 44.8 from 2 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- Reasoning, 37.0 points apart on average over 4 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run): GPT-4 34.9% against GPT-5.4 Nano 81.7%, 46.8 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- GPT-4 $60.00 against GPT-5.4 Nano $1.25 per million output tokens, 48.0x apart.
- Context window
- GPT-4 takes 8K tokens, GPT-5.4 Nano 400K.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | GPT-4 | Bars | GPT-5.4 Nano | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 0 | 3 | ||
| Intelligence | 0 | 2 | ||
| Reasoning | 0 | 4 | ||
| Math | 0 | 2 | ||
| Knowledge | 0 | 4 | ||
| General | 0 | 20 | ||
| All shared boards | 0 | 35 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index03
| Benchmark | GPT-4 | GPT-5.4 Nano | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 22.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-4 measured |
| SWE-bench Lite | 39.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-4 measured |
| SWE-bench (full test set) | 12.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-4 measured |
| AA Coding Index | 13.1 | 56.1 | GPT-5.4 Nano |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 84.0% | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | Not measured | 69.8% | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 26.1% | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | Not measured | 14.5% | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 41.6% | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| SciCode | Not measured | 47.2% | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 42.4% | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| WeirdML | Not measured | 49.2% | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| ALE-Bench | Not measured | 1004.5 | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1209 | 1404 | GPT-5.4 Nano |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1195 | 1402 | GPT-5.4 Nano |
| Neither model has a result on the other 24 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | GPT-4 | GPT-5.4 Nano | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 6.7 | 20.7 | GPT-5.4 Nano |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 125.7 | 146.0 | GPT-5.4 Nano |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index6 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-4 | GPT-5.4 Nano | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | Not measured | 16.0 | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | Not measured | 38.2% | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 5.0% | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 6.3% | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | Not measured | 44.8% | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | Not measured | 76.0% | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 35 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index04
| Benchmark | GPT-4 | GPT-5.4 Nano | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | Not measured | 77.5% | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | Not measured | 73.6% | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 34.9% | 81.7% | GPT-5.4 Nano |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 28.3% | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | Not measured | 78.5% | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| ARC-AGI | Not measured | 51.5% | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | Not measured | 5.7% | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| Chess puzzles | Not measured | 45.0% | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | Not measured | 9.0% | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 75.1% | Not measured | Only GPT-4 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1200 | 1381 | GPT-5.4 Nano |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1149 | 1396 | GPT-5.4 Nano |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1209 | 1387 | GPT-5.4 Nano |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | Not measured | 1210 | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | Not measured | 1225 | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | Not measured | 39.7% | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | GPT-4 | GPT-5.4 Nano | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | Not measured | 88.8% | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | Not measured | 87.8% | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | Not measured | 44.9% | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | Not measured | 12.2% | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| ProofBench | Not measured | 5.0% | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| GSM8K | 92.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-4 measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1230 | 1405 | GPT-5.4 Nano |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1228 | 1409 | GPT-5.4 Nano |
| Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index04
| Benchmark | GPT-4 | GPT-5.4 Nano | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | Not measured | 77.2% | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 77.9% | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | Not measured | 51.9% | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | Not measured | 61.2% | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | Not measured | 67.4% | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | Not measured | 59.1% | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | Not measured | 41.0% | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | 56.2% | Not measured | Only GPT-4 measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | Not measured | 11.7% | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| MMLU | 86.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-4 measured |
| AI2 Reasoning Challenge | 96.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-4 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1177 | 1374 | GPT-5.4 Nano |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1145 | 1369 | GPT-5.4 Nano |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1191 | 1368 | GPT-5.4 Nano |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1145 | 1366 | GPT-5.4 Nano |
| Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here | |||
Web designNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-4 | GPT-5.4 Nano | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 9 boards here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index020
| Benchmark | GPT-4 | GPT-5.4 Nano | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAGE (Vals AI) | Not measured | 38.1% | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | Not measured | 77.1% | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| Vals Multimodal Index | Not measured | 47.6% | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| IFBench | 33.2% | 75.9% | GPT-5.4 Nano |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | Not measured | 76.7% | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| DTBench | 62.7% | 80.3% | GPT-5.4 Nano |
| LMCA | 17.1% | 36.9% | GPT-5.4 Nano |
| HellaSwag | 95.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-4 measured |
| WinoGrande | 87.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-4 measured |
| LMArena Text | 1206 | 1372 | GPT-5.4 Nano |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1201 | 1362 | GPT-5.4 Nano |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1191 | 1315 | GPT-5.4 Nano |
| LMArena Vision | Not measured | 1196 | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1220 | 1381 | GPT-5.4 Nano |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1194 | 1359 | GPT-5.4 Nano |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1184 | 1391 | GPT-5.4 Nano |
| LMArena Text: German | 1198 | 1368 | GPT-5.4 Nano |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1137 | 1343 | GPT-5.4 Nano |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1087 | 1321 | GPT-5.4 Nano |
| LMArena Text: French | 1220 | 1395 | GPT-5.4 Nano |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1197 | 1371 | GPT-5.4 Nano |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1195 | 1363 | GPT-5.4 Nano |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1265 | 1366 | GPT-5.4 Nano |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1206 | 1382 | GPT-5.4 Nano |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1190 | 1365 | GPT-5.4 Nano |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1219 | 1338 | GPT-5.4 Nano |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1184 | 1325 | GPT-5.4 Nano |
| LMArena Vision: English | Not measured | 1202 | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | Not measured | 1232 | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | Not measured | 1204 | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | Not measured | 1161 | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| LMArena Vision: recognizing things | Not measured | 1141 | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | Not measured | 1159 | Only GPT-5.4 Nano measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-4 | GPT-5.4 Nano | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
GPT-5.4 Nano costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
GPT-5.4 Nano costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
GPT-5.4 Nano costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | OpenAI GPT-4 | OpenAI GPT-5.4 Nano |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | OpenAI | OpenAI |
| Weights | No public weights listed | No public weights listed |
| Released | May 28, 2023 | March 17, 2026 |
| Context window | 8K | 400K |
| Input $/Mtok | $30.00 | $0.20 |
| Output $/Mtok | $60.00 | $1.25 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | 44.8 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 0 | 2 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | $0.14 |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is GPT-4 better than GPT-5.4 Nano for coding?
Only GPT-5.4 Nano has a coding score, 44.8 on the Vibe Coding Index; GPT-4 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Compare them on price, context and the boards below.
Which is cheaper, GPT-4 or GPT-5.4 Nano?
GPT-4 costs $30.00 per million input tokens and $60.00 per million output tokens; GPT-5.4 Nano costs $0.20 and $1.25. Cost per solved task is known for GPT-5.4 Nano only.
Which has the bigger context window, GPT-4 or GPT-5.4 Nano?
GPT-5.4 Nano, with 400K tokens against 8K.
How many benchmarks is the GPT-4 vs GPT-5.4 Nano comparison based on?
35 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. GPT-4's coding index rests on 0 independent benchmarks and GPT-5.4 Nano's on 2. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.