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GPT-5.4 vs GPT-6 Astra

Compare GPT-5.4 and GPT-6 Astra side-by-side. See how these vision models stack up in OCR, Image Captioning, Classification, Object Detection, and Open Prompt.

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GPT-5.4 vs GPT-6 Astra Comparison Table

Evals updated September 5, 2026Pricing updated September 5, 2026

PropertyGPT-5.4GPT-6 Astra
OrganizationOpenAIOpenAI
Categoryclosedclosed
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateMar 2026Sep 2026
Context Window1.1M1.1M
ParametersUndisclosed
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1M$2.50$10.00
Output $/1M$15.00$50.00
Vision Tasks
CaptioningDemoDemo
Chart Question Answering
ClassificationDemoDemo
Document Question Answering
Image Tagging
Multi-Label Classification
Object DetectionDemoDemo
OCRDemoDemo
Vision Language
Visual Question AnsweringDemoDemo
Model Features
Foundation Vision
LLMs with Vision Capabilities
Multimodal Vision
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 6 vision tasks, pooled at low effort
OverallNot evaluated
86.6%
Avg cost / sample$0.030
Avg speed / sample6.67s
By task
Object Detection (low)
82.1%
±0.8, Mean of 3 runs, range 81.0 to 82.7
$0.050
Object Detection (high)
83.6%
±0.8, Mean of 3 runs, range 82.8 to 84.5
$0.101
Counting (low)
80.2%
±1.4, Mean of 3 runs, range 78.4 to 81.1
$0.018
Counting (high)
81.1%
±1.4, Mean of 3 runs, range 79.7 to 82.4
$0.028
Identification (low)
89.6%
±1.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 87.5 to 90.6
$0.013
Identification (high)
92.7%
±1.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 90.6 to 93.8
$0.014
OCR (low)
91.9%
±0.2, Mean of 3 runs, range 91.6 to 92.1
$0.031
OCR (high)
91.5%
±0.2, Mean of 3 runs, range 91.3 to 91.7
$0.089
Data Extraction (low)
88.7%
±1.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 87.6 to 89.7
$0.015
Data Extraction (high)
91.1%
±1.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 89.7 to 91.8
$0.018
Reasoning (low)
87.2%
±1.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 86.1 to 88.1
$0.016
Reasoning (high)
91.2%
±0.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 90.7 to 91.4
$0.021

GPT-5.4 vs GPT-6 Astra: Overview

GPT-5.4

GPT-5.4 is a proprietary multimodal large language model developed by OpenAI and released on March 5, 2026. It is designed for professional workloads such as advanced software development, research, and agentic automation. The model combines the general reasoning capabilities of the GPT-5 series with software engineering improvements derived from GPT-5.3-Codex. In the API and Codex environments it supports context windows of up to 1 million tokens, enabling long-context reasoning and large-scale code or document workflows.

Compared with GPT-5.2, GPT-5.4 reduces false individual claims by 33% and lowers overall response errors by 18%, improving factual reliability across complex tasks. It is also the first general-purpose OpenAI release with native computer-use capabilities, allowing agents to interact with desktops, browsers, and external applications to complete multi-step workflows. The model family includes three variants: GPT-5.4 (standard), GPT-5.4 Pro for higher-performance workloads, and GPT-5.4 Thinking, a reasoning-oriented version in ChatGPT that presents an upfront plan before generating its response. The API also introduces a Tool Search system that allows models to retrieve tool definitions dynamically, reducing token usage in tool-heavy integrations.

GPT-6 Astra

GPT-6 Astra is a proprietary multimodal reasoning model from OpenAI that accepts text and image input and produces text output. It is positioned as the company's flagship system for long-horizon end-to-end work spanning complex reasoning, software engineering, computer use, browsing, research and document creation. The model exposes a graduated reasoning effort control with low, medium, high, xhigh and max settings, and it accepts a change to that setting partway through a conversation rather than only at request time. It launches as a single tier with no smaller mini or nano variants, carries a context window of roughly 1.05 million tokens with a maximum output of 128,000 tokens, and reports a knowledge cutoff of April 30, 2026.

OpenAI reports evaluation results across agentic, scientific and security benchmarks, including 96.0% on GPQA Diamond, 64.6% on Terminal-Bench Science, 72.6% on OSWorld 2.0, and a perfect score on ExploitBench, along with near saturation on FrontierMath Tier 4 and ARC-AGI-3. The model supports computer use, structured outputs, streaming, programmatic tool calling, multi-agent orchestration, prompt caching and persisted reasoning, and it keeps earlier context windows searchable so it can recover requirements or tool outputs from previous turns. OpenAI describes Astra as the first of its models to cross the Critical cybersecurity capability threshold under its Preparedness Framework.

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