GPT-5.4 nano is the most lightweight and cost-efficient variant of the GPT-5.4 family, optimized for speed-critical and high-volume tasks. It supports text and image inputs and is designed for low-latency use cases such as classification, data extraction, ranking, and sub-agent execution.
The model prioritizes responsiveness and efficiency over deep reasoning, making it ideal for pipelines that require fast, reliable outputs at scale. GPT-5.4 nano is well suited for background tasks, real-time systems, and distributed agent architectures where minimizing cost and latency is essential.
Providers
Different companies host the same model. OpenRouter routes your request to one of them based on the routing mode you pick: Balanced (price + speed), Nitro (fastest), or Floor (cheapest).
| $0.20 | $1.250 | $0.020 | 0.99s | 78 tok/s | ||
| $0.20 | $1.250 | $0.020 | 1.57s | 59 tok/s | ||
Not used in Standard routing:Why these endpoints are not used | ||||||
Flex | $0.10 | $0.625 | $0.010 | 3.77s | 20 tok/s | |
| $0.22 | $1.375 | $0.022 | 0.98s | 93 tok/s | ||
- Input $0.20 / Output $1.2578 tok/s100.00% uptime
- Input $0.20 / Output $1.2559 tok/s100.00% uptime
- Not used in Standard routing:Why these endpoints are not used
- Input $0.10 / Output $0.62520 tok/s100.00% uptimeFlex
- Input $0.22 / Output $1.37593 tok/s100.00% uptime
Pricing
The average price customers actually pay for this model, next to the prices providers post. Caching and discounts mean the price actually paid is often well below the listed one.
Weighted average
GPT-5.4 Nano — Price history
| $0.0342 | $1.249 | 92.1% | 26.5% | ||
| $0.0945 | $1.248 | 58.6% | 73.3% | ||
Not used in Standard routing:Why these endpoints are not used | |||||
Flex | $0.0563 | $0.623 | 48.3% | 0.1% | |
| $0.0728 | $1.371 | 74.3% | 0.1% | ||
- Effective in $0.0342 / Effective out $1.249Token share26.5%
- Effective in $0.0945 / Effective out $1.248Token share73.3%
- Not used in Standard routing:Why these endpoints are not used
- Effective in $0.0563 / Effective out $0.623FlexToken share0.1%
- Effective in $0.0728 / Effective out $1.371Token share0.1%
Performance
Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).
P50, best across providers
P50, best provider
Uptime
Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.
Availability over the last 3 days
Last 72 hoursAvailability over the last 24 hours
When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and provider routing options.
Benchmarks
Scores on standardized evaluations and this model’s own outputs on shared benchmark prompts. Higher percentages are better — and each rank shows where this model lands among the models evaluated on that source.
| Source | Benchmark | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.4 nano (Xhigh) Coding Index | 56.1 |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.4 nano (Xhigh) Agentic Index | 16.0 |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.4 nano (Xhigh) GPQA Diamond | 81.7% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.4 nano (Xhigh) HLE | 28.3% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.4 nano (Xhigh) IFBench | 75.9% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.4 nano (Xhigh) τ²-Bench Telecom | 76.0% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.4 nano (Xhigh) AA-LCR | 76.7% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.4 nano (Xhigh) τ-Bench Banking | 27.4% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.4 nano (Xhigh) GDPval-AA | 22.7% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.4 nano (Xhigh) CritPt | 9.3% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.4 nano (Xhigh) SciCode | 47.2% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.4 nano (Xhigh) Terminal-Bench Hard | 42.4% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.4 nano (Xhigh) Terminal-Bench 4.0 | 0.5% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.4 nano (Xhigh) Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 60.7% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.4 nano (Non-reasoning) GPQA Diamond | 55.8% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.4 nano (Non-reasoning) HLE | 4.1% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.4 nano (Non-reasoning) IFBench | 32.7% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.4 nano (Non-reasoning) τ²-Bench Telecom | 34.8% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.4 nano (Non-reasoning) AA-LCR | 29.7% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.4 nano (Non-reasoning) CritPt | 0.0% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.4 nano (Non-reasoning) Terminal-Bench Hard | 24.2% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.4 nano (Medium) GPQA Diamond | 76.1% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.4 nano (Medium) HLE | 15.9% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.4 nano (Medium) IFBench | 64.4% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.4 nano (Medium) τ²-Bench Telecom | 52.6% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.4 nano (Medium) AA-LCR | 67.3% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.4 nano (Medium) CritPt | 5.1% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-5.4 nano (Medium) Terminal-Bench Hard | 33.3% |
| Vals AI | GPT 5.4 Nano AIME | 88.8% |
| Vals AI | GPT 5.4 Nano CaseLaw v2 | 51.9% |
| Vals AI | GPT 5.4 Nano Code Migration | 14.5% |
| Vals AI | GPT 5.4 Nano CorpFin v2 | 61.2% |
| Vals AI | GPT 5.4 Nano EMB | 44.8% |
| Vals AI | GPT 5.4 Nano Finance Agent (v2) | 38.2% |
| Vals AI | GPT 5.4 Nano GPQA Diamond | 77.5% |
| Vals AI | GPT 5.4 Nano Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark v1 | 0.0% |
| Vals AI | GPT 5.4 Nano IOI v1 | 15.3% |
| Vals AI | GPT 5.4 Nano LiveCodeBench | 84.0% |
| Vals AI | GPT 5.4 Nano LegalBench | 77.9% |
| Vals AI | GPT 5.4 Nano Legal Research Bench | 6.3% |
| Vals AI | GPT 5.4 Nano MedCode | 41.0% |
| Vals AI | GPT 5.4 Nano MedScribe | 77.1% |
| Vals AI | GPT 5.4 Nano MMLU Pro | 77.2% |
| Vals AI | GPT 5.4 Nano MMMU Pro | 73.6% |
| Vals AI | GPT 5.4 Nano MortgageTax | 59.1% |
| Vals AI | GPT 5.4 Nano ProofBench v1 | 5.0% |
| Vals AI | GPT 5.4 Nano SAGE v1 | 38.1% |
| Vals AI | GPT 5.4 Nano SWE-bench | 69.8% |
| Vals AI | GPT 5.4 Nano Tax Agent Bench | 5.0% |
| Vals AI | GPT 5.4 Nano TaxEval v2 | 67.4% |
| Vals AI | GPT 5.4 Nano Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 41.6% |
| Vals AI | GPT 5.4 Nano Vals Index | 33.0% |
| Vals AI | GPT 5.4 Nano Vals Multimodal Index | 47.6% |
| Vals AI | GPT 5.4 Nano Vibe Code Bench v1.1 | 26.1% |
Apps
Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.
Activity
Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.
API
Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.
Not currently available through EU in-region routing. In-region routing docs
Frequently asked questions
GPT-5.4 nano is the most lightweight and cost-efficient variant of the GPT-5.4 family, optimized for speed-critical and high-volume tasks. It supports text and image inputs and is designed for low-latency use cases such as classification, data extraction, ranking, and sub-agent execution.
GPT-5.4 Nano costs $0.20/M input tokens and $1.25/M output tokens, with separate rates for Cache Read at $0.02/M tokens.
GPT-5.4 Nano has a 400,000 token context window. It supports up to 128,000 completion tokens.
Yes. GPT-5.4 Nano accepts tools and tool_choice for function calling. It also supports structured outputs via a JSON schema in response_format.
GPT-5.4 Nano accepts files such as PDFs, images, and text as input and returns text.
GPT-5.4 Nano is served by 2 providers on OpenRouter: OpenAI and Azure. Requests are routed to the best available provider, with automatic failover to the others, and you can pin or exclude providers with provider routing.
GPT-5.4 Nano was released on March 17, 2026. Its knowledge cutoff is August 31, 2025.