o4-mini

OpenAI's small, fast reasoning model, released April 2025 alongside o3, notably strong at math.

Context: 200K tokens
Max output: 100K
Cutoff: Jun 2024
Released: Apr 2025

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Hosted API price

List price via OpenAI · per 1M tokens

USD

Input: $1.10 /1M
Output: $4.40 /1M
Cheapest: $1.00 / $4.00 via Replicate
Hosted by: 3 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 o4-mini, cheapest input first. Set your monthly volume to see what each would bill.

Input M Output M

Every provider serving o4-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
Replicate Cheapest	$1.00	$4.00		$18.00	Visit website
OpenAI Creator	$1.10	$4.40	$0.275	$19.80	Visit website
Azure	$1.10	$4.40	$0.275	$19.80	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 o4-mini by blended rate, each at its own cheapest provider.

Models priced nearest o4-mini per 1M tokens, each at its cheapest provider
Model	Blended /1M	Input /1M	Output /1M	Context	Cutoff	vs o4-mini
GPT-5.4 Mini OpenAI	$1.375	$0.75	$4.50	400K	Aug 2025	−8%
Kimi K2.7 Code Moonshot AI	$1.375	$0.90	$3.75	262K		−8%
Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) xAI	$1.4583	$1.25	$2.50	1M		−3%
Grok 4.20 (Reasoning) xAI	$1.4583	$1.25	$2.50	1M		−3%
Grok 4.3 xAI	$1.4583	$1.25	$2.50	1M		−3%
o4-mini This model OpenAI	$1.50	$1.00	$4.00	200K	Jun 2024
o3-mini OpenAI	$1.65	$1.10	$4.40	200K	Oct 2023	+10%
Claude Haiku 4.5 Anthropic	$1.6667	$1.00	$5.00	200K	Feb 2025	+11%
GLM-5-Turbo Z.AI	$1.6667	$1.20	$4.00	205K		+11%
GLM-5V-Turbo Z.AI	$1.6667	$1.20	$4.00	205K		+11%
Qwen3-Coder-Plus Alibaba Cloud	$1.6667	$1.00	$5.00	1M		+11%

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 o4-mini accepts and can do, as published by OpenAI.

Text Accepts and generates natural-language text.
Image Accepts images as input alongside text.
Reasoning Thinks before it answers, always on or as a switchable mode.
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.

Common questions

What is o4-mini good for?

Cost-sensitive reasoning with tools, coding and visual tasks, as OpenAI's small o-series model. It sits in the lower half of OpenAI's price range.

When is o4-mini not a good fit?

New projects: OpenAI says GPT-5 Mini succeeds it and plans to shut it down in October 2026. Its knowledge is older and its inputs shorter than the GPT-5 line's, and there is no audio or video input.

What is the cheapest way to run o4-mini?

The cheapest hosted rate is $1.00 / $4.00 per 1M tokens via Replicate; the creator's list price is $1.10 / $4.40.

How does o4-mini compare with o3-mini?

OpenAI says o4-mini beats o3-mini on non-STEM tasks and data science, not just math and coding, and like o3 it is trained to use tools inside its reasoning and can think with images. Same price and 200K-token context. o4-mini came out 3 months later, has a newer knowledge cutoff (June 2024 against October 2023) and takes image input, which o3-mini does not.

Can I self-host o4-mini?

No. OpenAI does not publish the weights; o4-mini is available only through hosted APIs.