o4 Mini API Pricing 2026

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Last updated: February 15, 2026 at 08:07 AM

Overview

o4 Mini was released on April 16, 2025. Pricing starts at $1.10 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens. The model supports a context window of up to 200K tokens. API access is available through OpenAI.

Context Window

200K

tokens

Pricing

Input$1.10

Output$4.40

Cached$0.275

per 1M tokens

Speed

Output118 tok/s

TTFT62.12s

median latency

Capabilities

VisionReasoningToolsCaching

Pricing Comparison

Compare o4 Mini with 10 similar models by price.

Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)

11 models

Provider	Model	Input $/M	Output $/M	Coding	MMLU	GPQA	Context	Actions
O OpenAI	o4 Mini	$1.100	$4.400	85.9	83.2	78.4	200,000	Try
AR Arcee AI	Maestro Reasoning	$0.900	$3.300	—	—	—	131,072	Try
O OpenAI	GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613)	$1.000	$2.000	—	—	—	4,095	Try
NS Neversleep	Noromaid 20B	$1.000	$1.750	—	—	—	4,096	Try
R Relace	Relace Search	$1.000	$3.000	—	—	—	256,000	Try
A Anthropic	Claude Haiku 4.5	$1.000	$5.000	51.1	80.0	64.6	200,000	Try
NO Nousresearch	Hermes 4 405B	$1.000	$3.000	54.6	72.9	53.6	131,072	Try
P Perplexity	Sonar	$1.000	$1.000	29.5	68.9	47.1	127,072	Try
QW Qwen	Qwen3 Coder Plus	$1.000	$5.000	—	—	—	1,000,000	Try
NO Nousresearch	Hermes 3 405B Instruct	$1.000	$1.000	—	—	—	131,072	Try
O OpenAI	o4 Mini High	$1.100	$4.400	—	—	—	200,000	Try

* Some models use tiered pricing based on prompt length. Displayed prices are for prompts ≤ 200k tokens.

Compare Providers

o4 Mini is available from multiple providers with different pricing and availability.

Providers

$1.100

Cheapest Input/M

$4.400

Cheapest Output/M

OpenAI

Best Price

Provider Pricing

3 models

Provider	Input $/M	Output $/M	Uptime
OpenAI Best Price	$1.100	$4.400	100.0%
V Vercel Best Price	$1.100	$4.400	-
A Azure Best Price	$1.100	$4.400	-

Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

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Detailed Benchmark Scores

Intelligence

33.0 (78th pct)

Coding

25.6 (66th pct)

Math

90.7 (88th pct)

MMLU Pro

83.2 (77th pct)

GPQA

78.4 (81th pct)

LiveCodeBench

85.9 (95th pct)

AIME

94.0 (96th pct)

Aider

72.0 (77th pct)

Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard

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