GPT-5.4 mini and GPT-5.4 nano, which can describe 76,000 photos for $52

BlogSimon WillisonMar 17, 2026

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GPT-5.4 nano lands at $0.20/$1.25 per million tokens — cheaper than Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite. Simon calculates it can describe 76,000 photos for $52, proving vision-language is now effectively free at scale.

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Sponsored by: Honeycomb — AI agents behave unpredictably. Get the context you need to debug what actually happened. Read the blog OpenAI today: Introducing GPT‑5.4 mini and nano. These models join GPT-5.4 which was released two weeks ago. OpenAI’s self-reported benchmarks show the new 5.4-nano…

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