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GPT-4o

OpenAI
closed / Overall score: 3.6

GPT-4o is OpenAI's 2024 multimodal foundation model, handling text, image and audio natively with a 128K context window and an October 2023 knowledge cutoff. It is served only through OpenAI's API, with no released weights. OpenAI removed it from ChatGPT in February 2026 after the GPT-5 line replaced it as the default, and it remains available to API developers.

Openness

1 high confidence
1.0
weights
closed
data
closed
code
closed
license
Proprietary(API-only)

GPT-4o is available only through the OpenAI API, with no downloadable weights. OpenAI publishes neither its training data nor its training code.

  • https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/gpt-4o recorded 2026-09-29

    Artificial Analysis states "GPT-4o (Nov '24) is a proprietary model and OpenAI has not disclosed the model size or parameter count" and measures it only on the vendor endpoint - "generates output at 167.9 tokens per second (based on OpenAI"; no open-weights provider is listed.

  • https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-4o recorded 2026-09-29

    OpenAI API model page describing GPT-4o as "is our versatile, high-intelligence flagship model" that "accepts both text and image inputs, and produces text outputs", sold per token ("Pricing is based on the number of tokens used") and pinned through API snapshots ("Snapshots let you lock in a specific version of the model"). Searched the body for weights, download, open-weight and Hugging Face: none, and no training corpus or training code is published.

Adoption

5 medium confidence
5.0

GPT-4o was the default ChatGPT model through most of 2024 and 2025 before GPT-5 replaced it, so adoption here is read from ChatGPT's own weekly active users rather than from a standalone GPT-4o count that OpenAI has never published. Those weekly-actives figures come from OpenAI's own announcements rather than from an aggregator's estimate.

Capability

3 medium confidence
3.0

GPT-4o was OpenAI's multimodal flagship in 2024 and now sits well below a frontier that includes OpenAI's own GPT-5 and GPT-6 lines. On Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index it scores below the median for non-reasoning models in its price tier, and OpenAI's model page publishes no benchmark figures.

  • https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/gpt-4o recorded 2026-09-29

    Artificial Analysis model page for the November 2024 snapshot - "GPT-4o (Nov '24) scores 8 (estimated) on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, placing it below average among other non-reasoning models in a similar price tier (median: 15)", on "Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3.2".

  • https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-4o recorded 2026-09-29

    OpenAI API model page for GPT-4o with "128,000 context window" and "Oct 01, 2023 knowledge cutoff", described as "our most capable model outside of our o-series models"; the page carries no benchmark figures.

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-4o recorded 2026-09-29

    Encyclopedia entry recording the launch figure "GPT-4o scored 88.7 on the Massive Multitask Language Understanding" benchmark, against 86.5 for GPT-4.

Verified 2026-09-29, except some scores, still awaiting re-confirmation