GPT-4o

v2024-05

OpenAI

Modelmultimodalvisionflagshipimage-understanding
84
Strong
About This Model

OpenAI's flagship multimodal model with strong text and vision capabilities. Designed for applications requiring high-quality multimodal understanding and generation.

Last Evaluated: November 8, 2025
Official Website

Trust Vector Analysis

Dimension Breakdown

🚀Performance & Reliability
+

Strong multimodal performance with good balance of text and vision capabilities. Better general knowledge (56.1% MMLU) than mini variant.

task accuracy code

Coding benchmarks

Evidence
HumanEval~52% pass rate (estimated)
mediumVerified: 2025-11-08
task accuracy reasoning

Mathematical benchmarks

Evidence
MATH~62% mathematical reasoning
mediumVerified: 2025-11-08
task accuracy general

Knowledge testing and multimodal benchmarks

Evidence
MMLU56.1% multitask understanding
LMSYS ArenaStrong multimodal performance
highVerified: 2025-11-08
output consistency

Internal testing

Evidence
OpenAI TestingGood consistency across modalities
mediumVerified: 2025-11-08
latency p50

Median latency

Evidence
OpenAI Documentation~1.3s typical
highVerified: 2025-11-08
latency p95

95th percentile

Evidence
highVerified: 2025-11-08
context window

Official specification

Evidence
OpenAI API Documentation128K context
highVerified: 2025-11-08
uptime

Historical uptime

Evidence
OpenAI Status99.9% uptime
highVerified: 2025-11-08
🛡️Security
+

Strong security with multimodal safety considerations. Good resistance to adversarial attacks across modalities.

prompt injection resistance

Multimodal adversarial testing

Evidence
OpenAI SafetyStrong resistance including vision inputs
highVerified: 2025-11-08
jailbreak resistance

Safety testing

Evidence
OpenAI SafetyRobust safety mechanisms
highVerified: 2025-11-08
data leakage prevention

Policy analysis

Evidence
OpenAI PrivacyAPI data not used for training
mediumVerified: 2025-11-08
output safety

Safety benchmarks

Evidence
OpenAI SafetyComprehensive multimodal safety
highVerified: 2025-11-08
api security

Security review

Evidence
OpenAI APIStandard API security
highVerified: 2025-11-08
🔒Privacy & Compliance
+

Standard OpenAI privacy with 30-day retention. Extra considerations for image data.

data residency

Documentation review

Evidence
OpenAI DocumentationUS infrastructure
highVerified: 2025-11-08
training data optout

Policy analysis

Evidence
OpenAI PrivacyAPI opt-out by default
highVerified: 2025-11-08
data retention

Terms review

Evidence
OpenAI Terms30-day retention
highVerified: 2025-11-08
pii handling

Documentation review

Evidence
OpenAI DocumentationCustomer responsible for PII in images
mediumVerified: 2025-11-08
compliance certifications

Certification verification

Evidence
OpenAI TrustSOC 2, GDPR
highVerified: 2025-11-08
zero data retention

Policy review

Evidence
OpenAI Documentation30-day retention
highVerified: 2025-11-08
👁️Trust & Transparency
+

Good transparency with comprehensive multimodal documentation. Strong safety guardrails across modalities.

explainability

Reasoning evaluation

Evidence
Model BehaviorGood multimodal explanations
mediumVerified: 2025-11-08
hallucination rate

Factual QA testing

Evidence
SimpleQAModerate hallucination rate
mediumVerified: 2025-11-08
bias fairness

Multimodal bias benchmarks

Evidence
OpenAI SafetyBias testing for text and vision
mediumVerified: 2025-11-08
uncertainty quantification

Qualitative assessment

Evidence
Model BehaviorGood uncertainty expression
mediumVerified: 2025-11-08
model card quality

Documentation review

Evidence
OpenAI DocumentationComprehensive multimodal documentation
highVerified: 2025-11-08
training data transparency

Public disclosure

Evidence
OpenAI StatementsGeneral description
mediumVerified: 2025-11-08
guardrails

Safety system analysis

Evidence
Safety SystemsMultimodal guardrails
highVerified: 2025-11-08
⚙️Operational Excellence
+

Excellent operational maturity with strong multimodal support and ecosystem.

api design quality

API review

Evidence
OpenAI APIWell-designed multimodal API
highVerified: 2025-11-08
sdk quality

SDK review

Evidence
OpenAI SDKsHigh-quality SDKs with vision support
highVerified: 2025-11-08
versioning policy

Policy review

Evidence
OpenAI VersioningClear versioning
highVerified: 2025-11-08
monitoring observability

Tool review

Evidence
OpenAI DashboardUsage dashboard with multimodal metrics
mediumVerified: 2025-11-08
support quality

Support assessment

Evidence
OpenAI SupportEmail support with multimodal expertise
highVerified: 2025-11-08
ecosystem maturity

Ecosystem analysis

Evidence
EcosystemMature multimodal ecosystem
highVerified: 2025-11-08
license terms

Terms review

Evidence
OpenAI TermsClear commercial terms
highVerified: 2025-11-08
Strengths
  • +Strong multimodal capabilities (text + vision)
  • +Good general knowledge (56.1% MMLU)
  • +Excellent for diagram and chart understanding
  • +OCR and document processing capabilities
  • +Large 128K context window
  • +Mature multimodal ecosystem
Limitations
  • !Mid-tier performance compared to specialized text models
  • !30-day data retention
  • !Not HIPAA eligible
  • !Higher cost than text-only alternatives
  • !PII concerns with image inputs
  • !Moderate coding capabilities
Metadata
pricing
input: $2.50 per 1M tokens
output: $10.00 per 1M tokens
notes: Flagship multimodal pricing
last verified: 2025-11-09
context window: 128000
languages
0: English
1: Spanish
2: French
3: German
4: Italian
5: Portuguese
6: Japanese
7: Korean
8: Chinese
9: Arabic
10: Hindi
modalities
0: text
1: image
2: vision
3: audio (input)
api endpoint: https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions
open source: false
architecture: Transformer-based multimodal
parameters: Not disclosed

Use Case Ratings

code generation

Good coding with vision support for UI/UX development.

customer support

Excellent for support with image/screenshot understanding.

content creation

Strong multimodal content creation with image context.

data analysis

Good for chart/graph analysis and visual data extraction.

research assistant

Excellent for research with diagram and figure understanding.

legal compliance

Adequate with document scanning but 30-day retention may limit use.

healthcare

Not HIPAA eligible. Good for medical image analysis with oversight.

financial analysis

Excellent for chart/graph analysis in financial reports.

education

Outstanding for education with diagram/equation understanding.

creative writing

Strong creative writing with visual context and inspiration.