GPT-4o vs SAM 3
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GPT-4o is deprecated and can no longer be run. Details and evals are still available on its model page.
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GPT-4o vs SAM 3 Comparison Table
Evals updated August 6, 2026Pricing updated August 10, 2026
| Property | GPT-4o | SAM 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | OpenAI | Meta |
| Category | closed | open |
| Modality | multimodal | multimodal |
| Release Date | May 2024 | Nov 2025 |
| Context Window | 128K | — |
| Parameters | ||
| License | Proprietary | Custom |
| Pricing per 1M tokens | ||
| Input $/1M | $2.50 | |
| Output $/1M | $10.00 | |
| Vision Tasks | ||
| Object Detection | Demo | |
| Captioning | ||
| Chart Question Answering | ||
| Classification | ||
| Document Question Answering | ||
| Image Tagging | ||
| Instance Segmentation | ||
| Multi-Label Classification | ||
| OCR | ||
| Open Vocabulary Object Detection | ||
| Promptable Concept Segmentation | Demo | |
| Video Object Tracking | ||
| Vision Language | ||
| Visual Question Answering | ||
| Zero Shot Segmentation | ||
| Model Features | ||
| Foundation Vision | ||
| Multimodal Vision | ||
| LLMs with Vision Capabilities | ||
| Zero-shot Detection | ||
GPT-4o vs SAM 3: Overview
GPT-4o (“omni”), released by OpenAI in May 2024, is a multimodal flagship model designed to unify text, image, and audio processing in a single system. Unlike earlier GPT-4 variants, GPT-4o supports real-time speech-to-speech interaction, enabling natural voice conversations alongside text and image reasoning. It features a context window of ~128,000 tokens for text input, with smaller output limits (commonly ~16K tokens), and has a knowledge cutoff of October 2023.
The model is optimized for efficiency and multilingual accessibility, supporting over 50 languages and covering ~97% of the world’s speakers. GPT-4o offers a cost-effective balance of speed and capability. It powers ChatGPT across free and paid tiers, making it widely accessible for applications in conversational AI, real-time translation, multimodal assistants, and global-scale communication tools.
Released on November 19th, 2025, Segment Anything 3 (SAM 3) is a zero-shot image segmentation model that “detects, segments, and tracks objects in images and videos based on concept prompts.” This model was developed by Meta as the third model in the Segment Anything series.
Unlike its previous SAM models (Segment Anything and Segment Anything 2), you can provide SAM 3 with the prompt “shipping container” and it will generate precise segmentation masks for all shipping containers in an image. SAM 3 generates segmentation masks that correspond to the location of the objects found with a text prompt.
Frequently Asked Questions
GPT-4o is released under Proprietary, while SAM 3 uses Custom. Licensing often matters more than raw accuracy for commercial deployments, so check the terms against how you plan to ship.
Yes. The comparison demo on this page runs both models on the same image side by side for object detection in the free Roboflow Playground. You can try it instantly, and a free account unlocks unlimited runs.
