API PRICES
OpenAI · gpt-4
Provider prices, cheapest first
OpenAI · gpt-4 official price: not yet recorded. Cheapest inference provider: OpenRouter, input 30, output 60 USD per million tokens. Cheapest relay: sg.uiuiapi.com, group "🚀OpeniAI-VIP" 56.25 USD_CREDIT per million total tokens (credit price, not cash, observed 2026-10-16). 62 sites have comparable prices; 99 sites list this model.Relay blended price uses 75% input and 25% output.
Price ranges per million tokens
Inference provider cash prices · Lowest 37.5 · median 37.5 · highest 37.5 · 1 quotes USD / per million tokens
Relay USD credit prices · Lowest 56.25 · median 84.375 · highest 112.5 · 2 quotes USD / per million tokens, site credit
Official prices are the vendor's cash prices. Inference providers also list cash prices and can be compared directly. Relays list prices in site credit; what you actually pay depends on each site's top-up rate, so they cannot be compared with official prices directly.
Inference providers
| Provider | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Unit | Observed | Conditions and source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter · Aggregator | 30 | 60 | — | — | USD / 1M tokens | Official source |
Unit: USD credits per 1M tokens. These are site-credit prices; actual cost depends on each site’s top-up rate.
Price range: lowest 56.25 · median 84.375 · highest 112.5 (2 quotes, USD credits per million total tokens)
Relays
Prices below are in site credit, not cash.
| # | Provider | Plan / conditions | Input ↑USD credits / 1M | Output USD credits / 1M | Cache readUSD credits / 1M | BlendedUSD credits / 1M | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recent price | |||||||
| 01 | sg.uiuiapi.comAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 2 plans | 🚀OpeniAI-VIP 🚀OpenAI/premium quality-official special-price channel | *1.5 [machine translation]Original: 🚀OpenAI/优质-官特价渠道 | *1.5 Operator pending verification | 45 | 90 | 22.5 | 56.25Median price ÷ this price: 1.5× | Full prices and sources |
| 02 | sg.uiuiapi.comAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 2 plans | AZ-T3-Openai AzureGPT models have higher stability [machine translation]Original: AzureGPT模型稳定性更高 Operator pending verification | 90 | 180 | 45 | 112.5Median price ÷ this price: 0.8× | Full prices and sources |
Related variants · 1 rows · not ranked
These are special editions of the model (thinking, max, search, batch, long context, free, etc.). They are priced differently from the base model, so they are listed separately and not ranked. Names that only add an effort level such as low, high or nothinking are compared with the base model.
- gpt-4-search (-search · search or tool): 1 rows
- api.hopeai.cc · default · gpt-4-search · Input 30 / Output 60 USD credits / 1M
How this ranking works
All per-token prices: 97,455 prices from 871 sites (about 765 companies). 89,631 are ranked, from 861 sites (about 755 companies); 7,824 more are listed separately and not ranked. Prices collected up to 2026-10-17.
This model has 359 recorded prices; 207 can be compared directly (205 ranked, 2 listed separately). Not comparable yet: price not parsed yet 99, scope of the official doc price not confirmed 32, ratio looks unset 7, display unit not confirmed 6, tiered by rules (see Tiered prices) 2, billed per request or another unit 1
2 recent · 0 stale (older than 10 days, or not updated by this refresh) · 0 unverified timestamps. Minimum and median only count recent paid prices; older prices stay in the table. 0 zero-valued pairs are separately unverified, without proof of free eligibility. Timing does not verify payment, upstream identity or quality.
Prices are converted to site credits using each site’s published ratio. What you actually pay depends on its top-up rate. Input, output and cache prices in each row come from the same plan. Several sites run by the same company take one place in the ranking: its cheapest plan, with the other sites listed under it. We judge “same company” by identical prices, status pages or homepage code; this is not a legal finding. To see every site’s prices, choose “All plans” or filter by provider.
“Self-declared unofficial channel” means the plan name itself says “reverse-engineered” or similar. We have not verified their source or quality. Minimum and median only count regular plans.
Sources not accepted this cycle and reasons
FAQ
Which API is cheapest for OpenAI · gpt-4?
sg.uiuiapi.com, group "🚀OpeniAI-VIP", 56.25 USD credit per million total tokens, observed 2026-10-16. 62 sites have comparable prices.
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