GPT-4o Mini

The compact variant of GPT-4o that replaced GPT-3.5 Turbo as OpenAI's recommended budget model.

Context: 128K tokens
Max output: 16K
Cutoff: Oct 2023
Released: Jul 2024

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Hosted API price

List price via OpenAI · per 1M tokens

USD

Input: $0.15 /1M
Output: $0.60 /1M
Hosted by: 4 providers

Hosted API pricing

How we price

Order

Providers are listed cheapest input rate first, then by output rate, a tie going to the creator's own listing. A provider that lists the model without a published rate sits at the end.

Prices

Base-tier, on-demand rates in USD per 1M tokens, converted at ECB reference rates where a provider publishes in another currency. Cached-input and batch rates show only where a provider publishes them. "Cheapest" marks the one provider with the lowest input and output pair; a tie wears no badge.

Cost

Input rate times the input tokens plus output rate times the output tokens, at the monthly volume set above the table. Cached-input, batch, long-context and reasoning-token billing are not modelled.

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Every provider serving GPT-4o Mini, cheapest input first. Set your monthly volume to see what each would bill.

Input M Output M

Every provider serving GPT-4o Mini, with its price per 1M input and output tokens and what the volume above would cost
Provider	Input /1M	Output /1M	Cached input /1M	Cost at 10M in + 2M out	Link
OpenAI Creator	$0.15	$0.60	$0.075	$2.70	Visit website
DigitalOcean	$0.15	$0.60	$0.075	$2.70	Visit website
Azure	$0.15	$0.60	$0.075	$2.70	Visit website
Replicate	$0.15	$0.60		$2.70	Visit website

Heads up: Base-tier, on-demand rates per 1M tokens; cached, batch and long-context tiers excluded. A provider may serve a shorter context or a quantized build than the creator's release. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Similarly priced models

The models nearest GPT-4o Mini by blended rate, each at its own cheapest provider.

Models priced nearest GPT-4o Mini per 1M tokens, each at its cheapest provider
Model	Blended /1M	Input /1M	Output /1M	Context	Cutoff	vs GPT-4o Mini
Ministral 3 14B Mistral	$0.20	$0.20	$0.20	256K		−11%
Qwen3.8-Flash Alibaba Cloud	$0.2033	$0.15	$0.47	1M		−10%
Qwen3-VL-8B Alibaba Cloud	$0.2083	$0.15	$0.50	262K		−7%
Qwen-MT-Turbo Alibaba Cloud	$0.215	$0.16	$0.49	16K		−4%
Command R 08-2024 Cohere	$0.225	$0.15	$0.60	128K	Jun 2024	0%
GPT-4o Mini This model OpenAI	$0.225	$0.15	$0.60	128K	Oct 2023
MiniMax-M2.7 MiniMax	$0.225	$0.15	$0.60	205K		0%
Mistral Small 4 Mistral	$0.225	$0.15	$0.60	256K		0%
Qwen3.8-27B Alibaba Cloud	$0.225	$0.17	$0.50	262K		0%
Qwen3-Coder-Next Alibaba Cloud	$0.2283	$0.078	$0.98	262K		+1%
Llama 4 Scout Meta	$0.24	$0.16	$0.64	10M	Aug 2024	+7%

USD per 1M tokens at each model's cheapest listed provider. Blended is the cost of 10M input plus 2M output tokens, spread over the 12M.

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Capabilities

What GPT-4o Mini accepts and can do, as published by OpenAI.

Text Accepts and generates natural-language text.
Image Accepts images as input alongside text.
Function calling Connect to external tools, APIs, and systems.
Structured output Return responses in structured formats like JSON.
Web search Search the web for up-to-date information.
Code execution Write and execute code in a sandboxed environment.
File upload Process uploaded documents, spreadsheets, and other files.
MCP Connect to services via Model Context Protocol.
Image generation Generate and edit images from text prompts.

Common questions

What is GPT-4o Mini good for?

Budget text and image tasks with OpenAI's hosted tools. OpenAI recommends it in place of GPT-3.5 Turbo, at the lower-cost end of its lineup.

When is GPT-4o Mini not a good fit?

Extended reasoning and audio input, which it lacks, and anything needing recent knowledge. The GPT-4.1 and GPT-5 families take far longer inputs, and closed weights rule out self-hosting.

What is the cheapest way to run GPT-4o Mini?

The cheapest hosted rate is $0.15 / $0.60 per 1M tokens via OpenAI.

How does GPT-4o Mini compare with GPT-3.5 Turbo?

OpenAI recommends GPT-4o Mini in place of GPT-3.5 Turbo and says it is smarter, cheaper and just as fast, with better long-context performance, and can be fine-tuned or distilled from GPT-4o. GPT-4o Mini lists at 70% less per 1M input tokens and 60% less per 1M output tokens than GPT-3.5 Turbo. It came out 16 months later, has a newer knowledge cutoff (October 2023 against September 2021), a larger context (128K against 16K tokens) and a larger max output (16K against 4K tokens) and takes image input, which GPT-3.5 Turbo does not.

Can I self-host GPT-4o Mini?

No. OpenAI does not publish the weights; GPT-4o Mini is available only through hosted APIs.