1. High reasoning capability

• Designed for intelligent reasoning across complex domains.
• Supports reasoning tokens and adjustable reasoning effort.

2. Strong coding and agentic performance

• Optimized for multi-step coding tasks, tool-use chains, and agent workflows.
• Handles complex logic, planning, and structured problem solving reliably.

3. Multimodal input

• Accepts text + image as input.
• Produces text outputs with strong instruction following.

4. Extensive tool support

• Works with Web Search, File Search, Image Generation (as a tool), Code Interpreter, MCP, and more.
• Integrated across Chat Completions, Responses API, Realtime, Assistants, Batch, Embeddings, etc.

1. Ultra-fast, ultra-cheap

• Designed for mass-scale workloads.
• Excellent for rewriting, extraction, classification.

2. Limited reasoning but great utility

• High throughput, low latency.

3. Optional thinking mode

• Adds chain-of-thought when needed.

4. Supports context cache & batch calls

• Very cost-effective system design.