GPT-4 Turbo Pricing
OpenAI · Previous-generation model. Use GPT-4.1 or GPT-4o for new projects.
Save up to 70% on GPT-4 Turbo API cost
Same model, same quality — pay less per token than the official API. Pay-as-you-go, no credit card required.
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Pricing position within OpenAI
GPT-4 Turbo sits in the middle of OpenAI's pricing at $10.00/1M input — 230% above the lineup average ($0.10 cheapest, $20.00 most expensive). 11 siblings cost less, 1 cost more. This mid-tier positioning makes it a sensible default when you're unsure which variant to pick.
When GPT-4 Turbo is worth the cost
GPT-4 Turbo is used for agentic workflows combining visual understanding with action — document processing pipelines that extract data and call APIs, visual Q&A systems, and multimodal agents. Tool calling enables it to trigger external functions based on what it sees in images.
Cost vs sibling models
What makes GPT-4 Turbo different from sibling models: compared to GPT-5.5 ($5.00/1M cheaper, 256K vs 128K context (larger)); GPT-5.4 ($7.50/1M cheaper, 256K vs 128K context (larger)); GPT-4.1 ($8.00/1M cheaper, 1M vs 128K context (larger)). Choose GPT-4 Turbo when vision input is needed.
Real-world cost scenarios
Real-world deployments: document processing pipelines (read invoice → extract fields → call accounting API), visual Q&A systems, and multimodal agents that act on what they see. GPT-4 Turbo handles the full see-decide-act loop in a single model call.