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Last updated: March 10, 2026 at 08:21 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

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Model
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Output $/M
Coding
MMLU
GPQA
Context
Actions
$2.000
$8.000
200,000
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o4 Mini Deep Research costs $0.002000 per 1,000 input tokens and $0.008000 per 1,000 output tokens.
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