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OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Mini vs OpenAI: GPT-5.3-Codex

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Mini OpenAI: GPT-5.3-Codex
Vendoropenaiopenai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score37.753.3
Input Price$0.75/M$1.75/M
Output Price$4.50/M$14.00/M
Context Window400,000400,000
Max Output128,000128,000
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index39.753.6

Who wins by task?

TaskOpenAI: GPT-5.4 MiniOpenAI: GPT-5.3-Codex
SQL Generation 138 138
Code Review 139 142
Code Completion 131 117
Code Refactoring 142 144
Bug Fixing 143 146
Unit Test Generation 128 130
Code Documentation 134 133
Regex Writing 122 122
CI/CD Pipelines 124 126
Frontend Component Design 126 128
Data Analysis 130 132
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 135 134
ETL Scripting 133 135
JSON Extraction 130 120
Bulk Data Labeling 128 117
OCR / Document Parsing 133 133
Table Extraction from PDFs 133 133
Long-Document Summarization 143 145
Short-Form Summarization 124 115
Blog Post Writing 126 126

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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