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o4-mini

CTX200K

Retired

69Quality

Reasoning · Vision · Tools

Input$1.10/M

Output$4.40/M

Fast o-series model for compact reasoning, coding, and tool use

PaidProprietary547/1044

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o4-mini

Fast o-series model for compact reasoning, coding, and tool use

o4-mini

Type: Text
Quality: 69 · Top 31% on the Epoch Capabilities Index
Context window: 200,000 tokens
Max output: 100,000 tokens
Input price: $1.10 / 1M tokens
Output price: $4.40 / 1M tokens
Cache read: $0.28 / 1M tokens
Cache write: —
Released: Apr 16, 2025
Knowledge cutoff: May 2024
Takes in: Text, Image
Puts out: Text
Reasoning: Yes
Tool calling: Yes
Structured output: Yes
File attachments: Yes
Access: Paid
License: Proprietary
Rarity: Uncommon
Set number: 547/1044

Open OpenAI docs Quality 69 Where to run it 22 Evolution 2/2 Meet its creature Battle GLM-5.3

Weights aren’t public. Use is governed by OpenAI’s terms. Specs from models.dev, last changed Oct 19, 2026. Official source: platform.openai.com.

How good is it?

Public leaderboard scores for o4-mini, refreshed daily from Epoch AI and LMArena.

Top 31% of the 277 models on the Epoch Capabilities Index: #86.

Quality is the share of a leaderboard’s models this one beats, from 0 to 100. Chat models are rated on Epoch AI’s Capabilities Index when it lists them, otherwise on LMArena; image and video models on LMArena’s image and video arenas.

Leaderboards

Epoch Capabilities Index#86 of 277
One number fitted from dozens of hard benchmarks, from science questions to agentic coding.145.6 index
LMArena Text#204 of 416
People compare two anonymous answers and vote for the better one.1,353 rating
Listed as o4-mini-2025-04-16
LMArena Text · Coding#206 of 411
The text arena’s coding prompts only.1,368 rating
Listed as o4-mini-2025-04-16
LMArena Text · Math#174 of 400
The text arena’s math prompts only.1,389 rating
Listed as o4-mini-2025-04-16
LMArena Text · Creative writing#223 of 414
The text arena’s creative writing prompts only.1,294 rating
Listed as o4-mini-2025-04-16
LMArena Vision#96 of 165
Questions about images, voted by people.1,194 rating
Listed as o4-mini-2025-04-16

Benchmarks Epoch AI runs

Scores from Epoch AI and LMArena, licensed CC BY 4.0. Boards list models under their own names, so a close match is shown with the name it was scored under. Credits

Where to run it

22 providers sell o4-mini through an API. Prices are per million tokens, cheapest first.

CheapestPoe$0.99 in · $4.00 out
From the labOpenAI$1.10 in · $4.40 out

API providers

Provider	Input	Output	Context
PoeCheapest paid`openai/o4-mini`	$0.99	$4.00	200K
Abacus`o4-mini`	$1.10	$4.40	200K
AIHubMix`o4-mini`	$1.10	$4.40	200K
Azure`o4-mini`	$1.10	$4.40	200K
Azure Cognitive Services`o4-mini`	$1.10	$4.40	200K
Cloudflare AI Gateway`openai/o4-mini`	$1.10	$4.40	200K
DevPass (LLM Gateway)`o4-mini`	$1.10	$4.40	200K
Eden AI`openai/o4-mini`	$1.10	$4.40	200K
Helicone`o4-mini`	$1.10	$4.40	200K
Impossibl`openai/o4-mini`	$1.10	$4.40	200K

Show 12 more providers

Provider	Input	Output	Context
Jiekou.AI`o4-mini`	$1.10	$4.40	200K
Kilo Gateway`openai/o4-mini`	$1.10	$4.40	200K
LLM Gateway`openai/o4-mini`	$1.10	$4.40	200K
Merge Gateway`openai/o4-mini`	$1.10	$4.40	200K
NanoGPT`openai/o4-mini`	$1.10	$4.40	200K
NEAR AI Cloud`openai/o4-mini`	$1.10	$4.40	200K
OpenAIOfficial`o4-mini`	$1.10	$4.40	200K
OpenRouter`openai/o4-mini`	$1.10	$4.40	200K
Vercel AI Gateway`openai/o4-mini`	$1.10	$4.40	200K
Requesty`o4-mini@eu`	$1.21	$4.84	200K
AnyAPI`openai/o4-mini`	—	—	200K
Model Oracle AI`o4-mini`	—	—	200K

From models.dev and Hugging Face, checked daily. Resellers’ listings can lag behind their price pages, so confirm with the provider before you commit.

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