GPT-4o mini vs Llama 5
Benchmarks, API Token Pricing, Context Window & Speed Comparison
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Compare GPT-4o mini by OpenAI against Llama 5 by Meta across real-world coding, reasoning, token economics, and latency.
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GPT-4o mini
高性能 AI 模型OpenAI 推出的 GPT-4o mini 人工智能模型，具备 128K 上下文窗口，输入价格为 $0.15/百万 Token，输出价格为 $0.6/百万 Token，专为高质量生产环境、推理与自动化工作流打造。
$0.15 / 1M
$0.60 / 1M
128K tokens
24.5%
Llama 5
开源权重模型Meta 推出的 Llama 5 人工智能模型，具备 5M 上下文窗口，输入价格为 $0/百万 Token，输出价格为 $0/百万 Token，专为高质量生产环境、推理与自动化工作流打造。
$0.00 / 1M
$0.00 / 1M
5M tokens
74%
核心差异一览
- Llama 5 is 1.0x cheaper for API usage (input + output tokens combined).
- Llama 5 has a larger context window (5M vs 128K tokens).
- GPT-4o mini is faster at 140 tok/s vs 65 tok/s.
- Llama 5 leads on SWE-bench coding (74.0% vs 24.5%).
| Feature | GPT-4o mini | Llama 5 |
|---|---|---|
Intelligence Index Composite reasoning & knowledge score (0-100) | 30 | 94 |
Provider | OpenAI | Meta |
Input Price Cost per million input tokens | $0.15 / 1M | $0.00 / 1M |
Output Price Cost per million output tokens | $0.60 / 1M | $0.00 / 1M |
Blended Price Weighted 7:2:1 cache:input:output per 1M | $0.14 / 1M | $0.00 / 1M |
Context Window Maximum input + output tokens | 128K tokens~192 A4 pages of text | 5M tokens~7,500 A4 pages of text |
Max Output Tokens Per single request | 16K | 128K |
Throughput Speed Tokens generated per second | 140 tok/s | 65 tok/s |
SWE-bench Verified Real-world software engineering | 24.5% | 74% |
GPQA Diamond Graduate-level reasoning | 40.2% | 84% |
Cached Input Price Prompt caching discount per 1M tokens | $0.07 / 1M | $0.00 / 1M |
各项指标谁更胜一筹？
At-a-glance decision framework权威基准测试得分对比
Official evaluation metrics verified by independent third-party research labs.
Industry benchmark evaluating real-world GitHub issue resolution and multi-file debugging.
Challenging questions created by domain experts to test complex PhD-level reasoning.
Hardened reasoning and academic knowledge benchmark with reduced lucky-guess probability.
Crowdsourced human preference evaluation based on blind, head-to-head model battles.
Extremely difficult, closed-ended questions spanning the frontier of human expert knowledge.
Autonomous multi-step tasks executed inside a real command-line terminal environment.
Research-grade coding problems drawn from real scientific and numerical workloads.
Contamination-free competitive programming problems collected continuously over time.
American Invitational Mathematics Examination — multi-step Olympiad-level reasoning.
Accuracy when reasoning over very large inputs that fill the model context window.
Tokens emitted per second during active generation streaming.
延迟与响应速度
Time to first token (TTFT) and estimated end-to-end response time for a typical 500-token response.
实时 Token 成本模拟器
Adjust sliders to calculate projected monthly cloud API spending with prompt caching discounts.
GPT-4o mini · Strengths & Key Advantages
- 由 OpenAI 研发的高精度 Small Multimodal Dense 架构，支持 128K 上下文窗口
- 极具竞争力的 API 定价（输入 $0.15/1M，输出 $0.6/1M），支持高速推理与工具调用
- 在代码生成、逻辑推理与多语言处理基准测试中表现出色
Considerations & Trade-offs
- 超长上下文请求需要规划 Token 成本与并发配额
- 针对特定垂直领域任务建议结合系统提示词与检索增强（RAG）以获得最佳效果
Llama 5 · Strengths & Key Advantages
- 由 Meta 研发的高精度 Mixture-of-Experts with recursive self-improvement (~600B total, 40-80B active) 架构，支持 5M 上下文窗口
- 极具竞争力的 API 定价（输入 $0/1M，输出 $0/1M），支持高速推理与工具调用
- 在代码生成、逻辑推理与多语言处理基准测试中表现出色
Considerations & Trade-offs
- 超长上下文请求需要规划 Token 成本与并发配额
- 针对特定垂直领域任务建议结合系统提示词与检索增强（RAG）以获得最佳效果
Token Use & Task Economics
Estimated cost and token consumption to complete one representative agentic task.
| Metric | GPT-4o mini | Llama 5 |
|---|---|---|
Cost per Task Estimated USD to finish one task | $0.16 | $0.00 |
Output Tokens / Task Tokens generated per task | 45K | 40K |
Reasoning Tokens / Task Thinking tokens burned per task | 0K | 20K |
技术规格参数
Architecture, release timeline, capabilities, and modalities.
| Feature | GPT-4o mini | Llama 5 |
|---|---|---|
| Official API Model ID (SDK) | gpt-4o-mini | meta-llama/Llama-5 |
| API Protocol | OpenAI Responses API & Chat Completions v1 | OpenAI-Compatible REST / vLLM / SGLang / HuggingFace TGI |
| Release Date | 2024-07 | 2026-04 |
| Knowledge Cutoff | October 2023 | January 2026 |
| Architecture | Small Multimodal Dense | Mixture-of-Experts with recursive self-improvement (~600B total, 40-80B active) |
| Parameters | Confidential | 600B+ total (~40-80B active) |
| Enterprise Rate Limits (RPM / TPM) | 10,000 – 30,000 RPM (Tier 5 Enterprise) · 800,000 – 2,000,000 TPM | Unlimited (Hardware-bound on self-hosted GPU) / 10,000 RPM Cloud · Unlimited local throughput / 10M+ TPM Managed Cloud |
| Long-Context Tier (>128K/200K) | Flat rate ($0.15/1M in) across full 128K window | Free across full context window (only KV-cache VRAM scales) |
| Prompt Cache Policy & TTL | Automatic prefix caching at $0.075/1M (no extra cache-write fee) | Automatic prefix KV-caching in vLLM / SGLang (0 cost) |
| Computer Use / GUI Agent | Supported (Screen coordinate grounding, browser & desktop GUI action loops) | Supported (Screen coordinate grounding, browser & desktop GUI action loops) |
| MCP & Parallel Tool Calling | Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema | Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema |
| Web Search Grounding & Sandbox | Native Web Search tool + Hosted Code Interpreter & File Search RAG | Supported via external Tavily/Exa Search & E2B/Docker Sandbox tools |
| Official Fine-Tuning Support | Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT), Direct Preference (DPO) & Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (RFT) | Full Weights SFT, LoRA, QLoRA, DPO & GRPO RL (Unsloth / Axolotl / Llama-Factory) |
| Multimodal Token Billing | Text BPE (~4 chars/token) · Vision (~258–765 tokens per image tile) | Text BPE (~4 chars/token) · Vision (~258–765 tokens per image tile) · Audio (~25–32 tokens/sec) · Video (~258–300 tokens/sec) |
| Quantization & Min GPU VRAM | Cloud-Hosted Proprietary (FP8 / BF16 Tensor Core Cluster) · Zero Local VRAM Required (100% Serverless Cloud API) | BF16 / FP16, FP8 Dynamic, INT4 AWQ / GPTQ, GGUF (Q4_K_M / Q8_0) · 372 GB VRAM (4-bit Quantized) · 1290 GB VRAM (Native BF16) |
| Safety & Frontier Classification | OpenAI Preparedness Framework Audited & System Card Published | Open-Weights System Card + Customizable Guardrail Layer (Llama Guard / ShieldGemma) |
| Enterprise Compliance (ZDR/HIPAA/SOC2) | SOC2 Type II · GDPR · Zero Data Retention (ZDR) & HIPAA BAA Available on Enterprise Tier | 100% Air-Gapped On-Premises / Private VPC · Full HIPAA, GDPR & SOC2 Control |
| Input Modalities | text, vision | text, vision, video, audio |
| Output Modalities | text | text |
GPT-4o mini vs Llama 5: 常见问题解答 (FAQ)
Which is more intelligent, GPT-4o mini or Llama 5?
Llama 5 is more intelligent. It scores 94 compared with 30 on the composite Intelligence Index.
Which model is faster?
GPT-4o mini is faster, generating 140 tokens per second compared with 65 tokens per second.
Which model is cheaper to run?
Llama 5 is cheaper at $0.00 per 1M tokens blended, compared with $0.14 (7:2:1 cache:input:output ratio).
Which model has lower latency?
GPT-4o mini has lower latency, with a time to first token of 0.31s compared with 0.85s.
Which model has a larger context window?
Llama 5 has a larger context window, supporting 5M tokens compared with 128K tokens.
综合结论
Choose GPT-4o mini for 企业级 ai 自动化、代码研发、智能体（agent）工作流以及 openai 生态深度集成, or choose Llama 5 for 企业级 ai 自动化、代码研发、智能体（agent）工作流以及 meta 生态深度集成.
常见问题 (FAQ)
Which is cheaper: GPT-4o mini or Llama 5?+
GPT-4o mini costs $0.15/1M input and $0.6/1M output tokens, while Llama 5 costs $0/1M input and $0/1M output tokens.
Which model has a larger context window: GPT-4o mini or Llama 5?+
GPT-4o mini supports 128K tokens whereas Llama 5 supports 5M tokens.
Understand key metrics like context window, token pricing, reasoning mode, and SWE-bench scores in our comprehensive AI glossary.
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数据来源: OpenAI & Meta Official Documentation