GPT-4.5 Preview (2025-02-27)
OpenAIProprietary
GPT-4.5 Preview (2025-02-27) is a vision-language model from OpenAI. It ranks 97 of 167 on LMArena’s overall vision board with 1195±12 from 2,925 votes. License: Proprietary.
Key figures
- Developer
- OpenAI
- License
- Proprietary
- First seen (our snapshots)
- 2026-10-26
No data: OCR, Diagrams, Homework, Captioning, Entity recognition, Creative writing, Humor.
Who it suits
- Overall #97 of 167: lower half; consider it mainly for cost or deployment reasons.
- Proprietary; used through OpenAI’s apps or API.
Neighbours on the overall board
| # | Model | Score | Votes | License | Δ vs this model |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 94 |  Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning) xAI | 1201 | 13,368 | Proprietary | +6 |
| 95 |  Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (Non-Thinking, 09-2025) Google | 1198 | 4,862 | Proprietary | +3 |
| 96 | GPT-5.4 nano (High) OpenAI | 1196 | 25,624 | Proprietary | +1 |
| 97 | GPT-4.5 Preview (2025-02-27) OpenAI | 1195 | 2,925 | Proprietary | |
| 98 | o4-mini (2025-04-16) OpenAI | 1194 | 41,316 | Proprietary | -1 |
| 99 |  Claude Opus 4 (Thinking 16K, 20250514) Anthropic | 1192 | 1,290 | Proprietary | -3 |
| 100 | Claude Sonnet 4 (Thinking 32K, 20250514) Anthropic | 1191 | 1,144 | Proprietary | -4 |
Alternatives · More from OpenAI
| # | Model | Score | Votes | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | GPT-5.4 (High) OpenAI | 1303 | 30,747 | Proprietary |
| 21 | GPT-5.5 OpenAI | 1297 | 28,781 | Proprietary |
| 25 | GPT-5.5 (High) OpenAI | 1293 | 27,067 | Proprietary |
| 27 | GPT-5.4 OpenAI | 1292 | 22,804 | Proprietary |
| 29 | GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) OpenAI | 1288 | 2,330 | Proprietary |
Alternatives · Top open-weight models
| # | Model | Score | Votes | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 |  GLM-5.3-Flash Z.ai | 1294 | 16,254 | MIT |
| 34 |  Kimi K2.6 Moonshot AI | 1282 | 16,368 | Modified MIT |
| 38 |  DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-20260910 (Max) DeepSeek | 1278 | 4,100 | MIT |
| 39 | Gemma 4 31B Google | 1276 | 40,219 | Apache 2.0 |
| 44 |  Qwen3.8-27B Alibaba | 1269 | 7,614 | Apache 2.0 |
How to read these scores
- If two scores differ by less than their ± intervals, the models are statistically close.
- Each category board is computed independently; do not compare scores across categories.
- Models with few votes move more; ranks of new entries may change.
FAQ
Where does GPT-4.5 Preview (2025-02-27) rank among vision models?
Overall rank 97 (1195); English rank 101 (1191); Chinese rank 93 (1176) (LMArena, data as of Oct 26, 2026).
How good is GPT-4.5 Preview (2025-02-27) at OCR?
GPT-4.5 Preview (2025-02-27) is not on LMArena’s OCR board yet, so there is no score to cite.
Is GPT-4.5 Preview (2025-02-27) better with Chinese or English prompts?
Chinese board: #93 of 128 (1176); English board: #101 of 167 (1191). The boards are computed separately, so compare ranks rather than scores.
Is GPT-4.5 Preview (2025-02-27) open-weight?
No. LMArena lists it as Proprietary; it is available through OpenAI’s apps or API.
How far is GPT-4.5 Preview (2025-02-27) from #1?
#1 overall is Claude Fable 5 (High) (1325); GPT-4.5 Preview (2025-02-27) has 1195, 130 points behind.
Sources
LMArena data published Oct 19, 2026.
Synced here Oct 26, 2026.
Price, context length and release date have no reliable public data here and are not shown; all figures come from snapshots, blanks are –.