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o4 Mini Deep Research API Pricing 2026

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Last updated: January 23, 2026 at 08:08 AM

Overview

o4 Mini Deep Research was released on October 10, 2025. Pricing starts at $2.00 per million input tokens and $8.00 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$2.00
Output$8.00
Cached$0.500
per 1M tokens
Speed
Output-
TTFT-
median latency
Capabilities
VisionReasoningToolsCaching

Pricing Comparison

Compare o4 Mini Deep Research with 10 similar models by price.

Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)

11 models

Provider
Model
Input $/M
Output $/M
Coding
MMLU
GPQA
Context
Actions
$2.000
$8.000
200,000
Try
$1.250
$10.000
1,048,576
Try
$1.250
$1.250
128,000
Try
$1.480
$1.480
45.5
10.8
8,192
Try
$1.500
$2.000
4,095
Try
$1.600
$6.400
35.9
76.2
58.7
32,768
Try
$1.750
$14.000
400,000
Try
$1.750
$14.000
128,000
Try
$1.750
$14.000
66.9
81.4
71.2
400,000
Try
$2.000
$12.000
65,536
Try
$2.000
$12.000
91.7
89.8
90.8
1,048,576
Try

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

Compare Providers

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

1
Providers
$2.000
Cheapest Input/M
$8.000
Cheapest Output/M
OpenAI
Best Price

Provider Pricing

1 models

Provider
Input $/M
Output $/M
Uptime
OpenAI
OpenAI
Best Price
$2.000
$8.000
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Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

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Frequently Asked Questions

o4 Mini Deep Research costs $0.002000 per 1,000 input tokens and $0.008000 per 1,000 output tokens.
o4 Mini Deep Research is available from 1 provider(s). OpenAI offers the best price.
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