Pick a winner in each dimension — change your vote anytime.
Pricing and capabilities synced from the OpenRouter catalogue. Scores are editorial (0–10).
Choose GPT-5.3-Codex if you want codex CLI users and dedicated coding agents. Choose GPT-5.4 if you want the OpenAI daily driver — strong and well-priced.
In our editorial scoring, GPT-5.3-Codex leads in 3 of five dimensions (agentic ability, speed and reliability), while GPT-5.4 leads in 2. On price, GPT-5.3-Codex runs about $5.42 per 1M tokens (blended) and is proprietary; GPT-5.4 is about $6.25 and proprietary.
The model picks the moves; the agent runs the loop, the tools, and the guardrails. Once you've chosen a model, see which agent gets the most out of it.