o4-mini

by OpenAIChatretires 2026-10-23

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

Context
200K tokens
Max output
100,000 tokens
Parameters
120B active
Released
2025-04-16
Weights
Closed

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openai/o4-mini · also seen as o4-mini@eu, openai/o4-mini-fast, o4-mini-2025-04-16, us/o4-mini-2025-04-16, +3 more

Specifications

Full facts as recorded, incl. what is unknown.

Released
2025-04-16
Weights
Closed
Input
Text, Image
Output
Text
Context window
200,000 max across endpoints
Max output
100,000
Providers
6 + 17 gateways, not counted as providers
Epoch Capabilities Index
145.6 ± 2 against price
Direct price range
$1.00–$1.10 in · $4.00–$4.40 out per 1M tokens · 2 of 6 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 search
  • Computer useunknown
  • System messages
  • Assistant prefillunknown
  • Temperature
  • Streamingunknown
  • Attachments

Endpoints

One row per provider and variant; gateways are listed separately.

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Price history

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No change since 19 Oct 2026. The cheapest direct price has been $1.00 in / $4.00 out per 1M tokens at replicate 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

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Blended rate per 1M tokens, each at its own cheapest provider (10M input : 2M output mix).

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