Model comparison

GPT-4 Turbo vs GPT-4o

GPT-4 Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.3 to 28.5 on the Noometry Index. GPT-4o costs 3.4× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-4 Turbo's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 36 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4 Turbo OpenAI

30.3

Rank #281 Confirmed

GPT-4o OpenAI

28.5

Rank #316 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 36 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4 Turbo scores higher in 2 categories and GPT-4o in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where GPT-4 Turbo leads 33.4 to 25.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Confabulations: 28.4% for GPT-4 Turbo and 15.3% for GPT-4o.
  • GPT-4o is cheaper at $2.50 / $10 per million input/output tokens, against $10 / $30 for GPT-4 Turbo.

Side by side

GPT-4 Turbo and GPT-4o specifications
GPT-4 TurboGPT-4o
ProviderOpenAIOpenAI
Noometry Index30.328.5
Released2023-11-062024-05-13
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window128K128K
Max output4K16K
Input $ / M tokens$10$2.50
Output $ / M tokens$30$10
Results tracked3672

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Category by category

Coding GPT-4 Turbo leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 33.4 (#247), GPT-4o: 25.1 (#323)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboGPT-4o
WeirdML18%25.1%
BigCodeBench Instruct48.2%51.1%
LMArena Coding12681297
BigCodeBench Complete58.2%61.1%
HumanEval+86.6%87.2%
MBPP+73.3%72.2%
SWE-bench Verified—31%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—21.6%
Aider Polyglot—45.3%
GSO—0%
LiveBench Coding—51.4%
CadEval—26%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4 Turbo: —, GPT-4o: 20.8 (#133)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboGPT-4o
METR Time Horizons36.7%40.8%
GDPval—9.9%
TheAgentCompany—8.6%
Cybench—12.5%
BALROG—32.3%
LMArena Search—1006

Reasoning GPT-4 Turbo leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 14.9 (#311), GPT-4o: 9.4 (#338)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboGPT-4o
SimpleBench25.1%17.8%
Chess Puzzles6%13%
LMArena Hard Prompts12511281
DTBench61.6%64.5%
LMCA9.8%16.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index127.25128.97
ForecastBench59.457.7
ARC-AGI-2—0%
ARC-AGI-1—4.5%
CritPt—0%
EnigmaEval—0.8%
LiveBench Reasoning—55.8%
LiveBench Data Analysis—60.9%
LiveBench—55.3%

Math GPT-4o leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 8.6 (#316), GPT-4o: 10.2 (#303)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboGPT-4o
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)0.7%0.4%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20256.7%6.4%
LMArena Math12721285
MATH Level 546.7%53.3%
Omni-MATH—29.3%
LiveBench Math—49.5%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0.3%

Knowledge GPT-4o leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 24.3 (#263), GPT-4o: 28.8 (#235)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboGPT-4o
GPQA Diamond46.6%49.2%
Confabulations28.4%15.3%
LMArena Expert12231250
MMLU81.3%88.1%
Humanity's Last Exam—2.7%
SimpleQA Verified—26%
MMLU-Pro—71.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.6%
GPQA (HELM)—52%

Multimodal GPT-4o leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 30.0 (#104), GPT-4o: 33.9 (#85)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboGPT-4o
LMArena Vision10901137
Video-MME—71.9%
GeoBench—71%
VPCT—40%
ScienceQA—88.5%

Multilingual GPT-4o leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 40.7 (#211), GPT-4o: 43.4 (#181)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboGPT-4o
LMArena Non-English12451283
LMArena Chinese12421277
LMArena French12751303
LMArena German12591282
LMArena Japanese11941257
LMArena Korean11871234
LMArena Russian12591286
LMArena Spanish12601292

Instruction Following Too close to call

GPT-4 Turbo: 66.0 (#211), GPT-4o: 66.8 (#202)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboGPT-4o
LMArena Instruction Following12501278
LiveBench Instruction Following—68.6%
IFEval—81.7%

Long Context GPT-4o leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 38.0 (#200), GPT-4o: 39.4 (#174)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboGPT-4o
LMArena Longer Query12541289
Fiction.LiveBench—66.7%

Writing & Preference GPT-4o leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 47.9 (#201), GPT-4o: 52.8 (#160)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboGPT-4o
LMArena Text12721300
LMArena Creative Writing12691291
LMArena Multi-Turn12671302
Short-Story Creative Writing—81.8%
WildBench—82.8%
LiveBench Language—47.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4 Turbo better than GPT-4o?

GPT-4 Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.3 to 28.5 on the Noometry Index. GPT-4o costs 3.4× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-4 Turbo's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GPT-4 Turbo or GPT-4o?

GPT-4o is cheaper. It lists at $2.50 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens; GPT-4 Turbo lists at $10 and $30.

Is GPT-4 Turbo or GPT-4o better for coding?

GPT-4 Turbo scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.4 versus 25.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 128K tokens.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4 Turbo and GPT-4o share?

36 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4 Turbo has 36 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4o has 72.

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