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Best GPT-5.4 Mini alternatives

Users may look for alternatives to GPT-5.4 Mini when its mini size reduces depth on complex reasoning or when different balances of speed, price, and context are needed. This list covers the seven provided multimodal models along with their specs, strengths, and limitations.

Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.6 excels at long-context multimodal analysis.

Intelligence: 42.6Output speed: 44 t/sOutput price: $15.00/1MContext: 1000K

Anthropic's closed multimodal model with a million-token context window.

Intelligence: 52.9Output speed: 40 t/sOutput price: $25.00/1MContext: 1000K

Google's multimodal preview model with custom tools and massive context handling.

Output price: $12.00/1MContext: 1049KType: ProprietaryProvider: Google
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GPT-5.2 Pro

Multimodal · $168.00/1M

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Multimodal model handling images, text, and files over vast contexts.

Output price: $168.00/1MContext: 400KType: ProprietaryProvider: OpenAI

Multimodal coding model with 400k-token context from OpenAI.

Intelligence: 53.6Output speed: 101 t/sOutput price: $14.00/1MContext: 400K

OpenAI's closed multimodal model for large-scale text and image tasks.

Intelligence: 43.1Output speed: 178 t/sOutput price: $10.00/1MContext: 400K
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GPT-5 Codex

Multimodal · $10.00/1M

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OpenAI's multimodal model for large-scale text and image tasks.

Intelligence: 44.6Output speed: 150 t/sOutput price: $10.00/1MContext: 400K

Google's fast multimodal model for unified text, image, audio, and video tasks.

Intelligence: 20.6Output speed: 208 t/sOutput price: $2.50/1MContext: 1049K

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GPT-5.2-Codex is the best alternative based on its intelligence_index of 49 exceeding the base model's 48.9.