o4 Mini
OPENAI Developer Architecture Profile
Intelligence (ELO)1150Chatbot Arena Verified
Max Context200,000Tokens
API Cost / 1M$5.50Blended Prompt + Completion
Model Capabilities
- Drafting
- Classification
OpenAI o4-mini is a compact reasoning model in the o-series, optimized for fast, cost-efficient performance while retaining strong multimodal and agentic capabilities. It supports tool use and demonstrates competitive reasoning and coding performance across benchmarks like AIME (99.5% with Python) and SWE-bench, outperforming its predecessor o3-mini and even approaching o3 in some domains.
Despite its smaller size, o4-mini exhibits high accuracy in STEM tasks, visual problem solving (e.g., MathVista, MMMU), and code editing. It is especially well-suited for high-throughput scenarios where latency or cost is critical. Thanks to its efficient architecture and refined reinforcement learning training, o4-mini can chain tools, generate structured outputs, and solve multi-step tasks with minimal delay—often in under a minute.
Granular Pricing Matrix
Input Tokens (Prompt)$1.10 / 1M
Output Tokens (Completion)$4.40 / 1M
Pricing data via OpenRouter. Sync: 3/16/2026
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