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OpenAI GPT-4o Vision

GPT-4o Vision is OpenAI's multimodal GPT-4o variant optimized for understanding images and returning text outputs. It can interpret documents, UI screenshots, charts, diagrams, and natural images, supporting detailed reasoning and extraction tasks. The model is exposed via the GPT-4o API with the same context window as the text model.

by OpenAIReleased 2024-05-13Proprietary
Context Window
128K
API Access
Available

Key Capabilities

  • +High-quality image understanding and captioning
  • +Document and UI screenshot parsing with structured extraction
  • +Chart, diagram, and table interpretation
  • +Multilingual OCR and text reading in images
  • +Step-by-step visual reasoning and comparison
  • +Integration with GPT-4o text capabilities in a single API

Limitations

  • -Proprietary model with no access to weights
  • -May hallucinate text or misread small/low-quality text in images
  • -No guarantees for privacy beyond OpenAI's policies
  • -Performance can degrade on highly specialized scientific or medical imagery
  • -Not open-source and not user-fine-tunable

Benchmark Performance

reasoning

reasoning

Massive Multitask Language Understanding

86.5%
reasoning

Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding

56.8%

math

math

MathVista

49.9%

Alternatives & Comparisons

Claude 3.5 Sonnet Visionvision

Anthropic multimodal model with strong document and chart understanding

Strengths
  • + Competitive reasoning on complex documents
  • + Good safety and refusal behavior
Weaknesses
  • - Proprietary; availability and pricing differ by region
Gemini 1.5 Pro Visionvision

Google multimodal model with very long context and strong integration with Google ecosystem

Strengths
  • + Very long context window
  • + Tight integration with Google services and tools
Weaknesses
  • - Proprietary; region-dependent access and quotas

Other GPT-4o Models

GPT-4o Mini

Sources

openai.complatform.openai.complatform.openai.com