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o4-mini

OpenAI · Released Apr 2025

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Cost-effective reasoning model with multimodal support. Replaced o3-mini at the same price point.

Strengths
Affordable reasoning with multimodal support.
Best for
Budget reasoning tasks and high-volume problem solving.
Limitations
Smaller reasoning model; less capable than the full o-series or GPT-5.5.

Input / 1M

$1.10

Output / 1M

$4.40

Cached input / 1M

$0.275

Context window

200K

Price history

Price per 1M tokens over timeOutput $4.40; Input $1.10 as of Apr 2025.$0$1.00$2.00$3.00$4.00$5.00Output on 16 Apr 2025: $4.40Out $4.40Input on 16 Apr 2025: $1.10In $1.10Apr 2025

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16 Apr 2025 $1.10 $4.40 $0.275 openai.com/api/pricing

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