> What a model mess! OpenAI now has three price points: GPT 5.1, GPT 5.2 and now GPT 5.4.

I don't know, this feels unnecessarily nitpicky to me

It isn't hard to understand that 5.4 > 5.2 > 5.1. It's not hard to understand that the dash-variants have unique properties that you want to look up before selecting.

Especially for a target audience of software engineers skipping a version number is a common occurrence and never questioned.

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IgorPartola 21 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

The issue isn’t 5.4 > 5.2 etc. It is that there is a second dimension which is the model size and a third dimension which is what it is tuned for. And when you are releasing so quickly that flagship your instant mini model is on one numerical version but your flagship tool calling mini model is on another it is confusing trying to figure out which actual model you want for your use case.

It’s not impossible to figure out but it is a symptom of them releasing as quickly as possible to try to dominate the news and mindshare.

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Melatonic 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Agreed - and its a huge step up from their previous naming schemes. That stuff was confusing as hell

	▲	__jl__ 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I see your point. I do find Anthropic's approach more clean though particularly when you add in mini and nano. That makes 5 models priced differently. Some share the same core name, others don't: gpt 5 nano, gpt 5 mini, gpt 5.1, gpt 5.2, gpt 5.4. And we are not even talking about thinking budget. But generally: These are not consumer facing products and I agree that someone who uses the API should be able to figure out the price point of different models.