GPT-5.4 (Xhigh) vs. GPT-5.3 Codex (Xhigh)
Comparison between GPT-5.4 (Xhigh) and GPT-5.3 Codex (Xhigh) across intelligence, price, speed, context window and more.
For details relating to our methodology, see our Methodology page.
| Intelligence | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Intelligence Index | 39* | 33* | |
| AA-Briefcase v1.1 | 868 | ||
| GDPval-AA v2.1 | 1246 | ||
| Humanity's Last Exam | 44% | 42% | |
| CritPt | 23% | 17% | |
| AA-Omniscience | 6 | 11 | |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 82% | 83% | |
| Cost | |||
| Price per 1M Tokens | $2.175 | $1.8725 | |
| Input Price per 1M Tokens | $2.50 | $1.75 | |
| Output Price per 1M Tokens | $15.00 | $14.00 | |
| Cache Hit Price per 1M Tokens | $0.25 | $0.175 | |
| Token Use | |||
| Performance | |||
| Output Speed | 109 tokens/s | 124 tokens/s | |
| Time to First Token | 156.08s | 48.09s | |
| Time to First Answer Token | 156.08s | 48.09s | |
| End-to-End Response Time | 160.65s | 52.13s | |
| Technical specifications | |||
| Context Window | 1050k tokens~1,575 A4 pages of size 12 Arial font | 400k tokens~600 A4 pages of size 12 Arial font | |
| Release Date | March 2026 | February 2026 | |
| Knowledge Cutoff | August 2025 | August 2025 | |
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes | |
| Input modality | Supports: text and image | Supports: text and image | |
| Output modality | Supports: text | Supports: text | |
| Open Source (Weights) | No | No | |
* Estimated
Intelligence
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index by Open Weights / Proprietary
Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Task
Cost per Task (USD, Log Scale)
Evaluations
Agentic knowledge work, (Elo-500)/2000
Knowledge
1 - hallucination rate
Agentic SaaS workflows
Agentic real-world work tasks, (Elo-500)/2000
Reasoning & knowledge
Professional document reasoning, All-pass
Agentic coding & terminal use
Long context reasoning
Coding
Physics reasoning
Agentic scientific research workflows in a terminal
Agentic software engineering in open-source repositories
Quantitative analysis on spreadsheets & documents
Legal agentic work, Hallucination-Gated All-Pass Rate
Agentic business operations
Kubernetes incident root-cause analysis
Medical long context reasoning
Visual reasoning
AA-Briefcase v1.1Updated
AA-Briefcase Elo
AA-Omniscience
AA-Omniscience Index
Intelligence Index Comparisons
Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Task
Cost per Task (USD, Log Scale)
Cost
Cost per Intelligence Index Task
Cost to Run Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Pricing: Cache Hit, Input, and Output
Context Window
Context Window
Speed
Measured by Output Speed (tokens per second)
Output Speed
Time per Intelligence Index Task
Latency
Measured by Time (seconds) to First Token
Latency: Time To First Answer Token
End-to-End Response Time
Seconds to output 500 tokens, calculated based on time to first token, 'thinking' time for reasoning models, and output speed
End-to-End Response Time
Frequently Asked Questions
GPT-5.4 (Xhigh) is more intelligent. GPT-5.4 (Xhigh) scores 39 (estimated), compared with GPT-5.3 Codex (Xhigh) at 33 (estimated) on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.
GPT-5.3 Codex (Xhigh) is faster. GPT-5.3 Codex (Xhigh) generates 123.7 tokens per second, compared with GPT-5.4 (Xhigh) at 109.4 tokens per second.
GPT-5.3 Codex (Xhigh) is cheaper. GPT-5.3 Codex (Xhigh) costs $1.87 per 1M tokens, compared with GPT-5.4 (Xhigh) at $2.17 per 1M tokens (7:2:1 cache hit/input/output ratio).
GPT-5.3 Codex (Xhigh) has lower latency. GPT-5.3 Codex (Xhigh) has a time to first token of 48.09s, compared with GPT-5.4 (Xhigh) at 156.08s.
GPT-5.4 (Xhigh) has a larger context window. GPT-5.4 (Xhigh) supports 1.1M tokens, compared with GPT-5.3 Codex (Xhigh) at 400k tokens.