o3-mini
by OpenAIChatretires 2026-10-23
Smaller o-series reasoner for economical coding, math, and planning tasks
- Context
- 200K tokens
- Max output
- 100,000 tokens
- Parameters
- 120B active
- Released
- 2024-12-20
- Weights
- Closed
openai/o3-mini · also seen as eu/o3-mini-2025-01-31, o3-mini-2025-01-31, us/o3-mini-2025-01-31, us-gov/o3-mini, +2 more
Specifications
Full facts as recorded, incl. what is unknown.
- Released
- 2024-12-20
- Weights
- Closed
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Context window
- 200,000 max across endpoints
- Max output
- 100,000
- Providers
- 7 + 15 gateways, not counted as providers
- Epoch Capabilities Index
- 140.3 ± 2.3 against price
- Direct price range
- $1.10–$1.43 in · $4.40–$5.72 out per 1M tokens · 4 of 7 providers have a comparable price
More details
- Last updated
- 2026-01
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2024-05
- Parameters
- 120B active
- Developer country
- United States of America
Capabilities
Across all endpoints: supported if any endpoint supports it.
- Tool calling
- Parallel tools
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Image input
- PDF input
- Audio input
- Audio outputunknown
- Video input
- Prompt caching
- Web searchunknown
- Computer useunknown
- System messagesunknown
- Assistant prefillunknown
- Temperature
- Streamingunknown
- Attachments
Endpoints
One row per provider and variant; gateways are listed separately.
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Price history
Atom feedNo change since 19 Oct 2026. The cheapest direct price has been $1.10 in / $4.40 out per 1M tokens at DigitalOcean on every data refresh since then.
Tracked from 19 Oct 2026. Headline-eligible direct prices only, so a price the sanity check flags never draws a spike. Series as JSON
Cost calculator
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Similarly priced models
Blended rate per 1M tokens, each at its own cheapest provider (10M input : 2M output mix).
| Model | Blended/1M | In/1M | Out/1M | Context | vs o3-mini |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| o1 miniOpenAI | $1.65 | $1.10 | $4.40 | 128K | +0% |
| o3-mini-highOpenAI | $1.65 | $1.10 | $4.40 | 200K | +0% |
| OpenAI o3-mini (Low)OpenAI | $1.65 | $1.10 | $4.40 | 200K | +0% |
| o4-miniOpenAI | $1.65 | $1.10 | $4.40 | 200K | +0% |
| o4 Mini HighOpenAI | $1.65 | $1.10 | $4.40 | 200K | +0% |
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| Sonar ReasoningPerplexity | $1.67 | $1.00 | $5.00 | 128K | +1% |
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