OpenAI · Released Jul 18, 2024GPT-4o mini
Small omni GPT for cheap multimodal assistance and production-scale traffic.
- Capability
- 126.6ECI · #135 of 148
- Input
- $0.15per 1M tokens
- Output
- $0.60per 1M tokens
- Context
- 128K16K max output
What it costs
- Input
- $0.15per million tokens
- Output
- $0.60per million tokens
- Cached input
- $0.075per million tokens
- Blended (3:1)
- $0.263cheaper than 73% of priced models
Typical monthly bills
| Monthly usage | Estimated cost |
|---|---|
| Side project2M input + 0.5M output tokens | $0.60 |
| Team assistant25M input + 5M output tokens | $6.75 |
| Production app250M input + 50M output tokens | $67.50 |
Official OpenAI API price, as listed on models.dev.
Independent benchmarks
#135 of 148 scored models
The shaded band is Epoch AI’s confidence range (120.5–128.5); the tick marks the median scored model.
Scores from Epoch AI, run independently of OpenAI.
The details
- Lab
- OpenAI
- Released
- Jul 18, 2024
- Knowledge cutoff
- Sep 2023
- Context window
- 128,000 tokens
- Max output
- 16,384 tokens
- Inputs
- Text, Images, PDFs
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning
- No
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Structured output
- Yes
- Weights
- Proprietary
- API model ID
gpt-4o-minion OpenAI- Availability
- 21 API providerslisted on models.dev
What OpenAI claims
Published by the lab at launch. Settings vary, so compare these only with care.
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About GPT-4o mini
How much does GPT-4o mini cost?
GPT-4o mini costs $0.15 input / $0.60 output per million tokens (official OpenAI API price). Cached input is $0.075 per million tokens. At a 3:1 input-to-output mix that is $0.263 per million tokens, cheaper than 73% of the 360 priced models we track.
What is the context window of GPT-4o mini?
GPT-4o mini accepts up to 128,000 tokens per request and can write up to 16,384 tokens in one response.
How good is GPT-4o mini?
Epoch AI gives GPT-4o mini a Capabilities Index score of 126.6 (likely range 120.5–128.5), ranking it #135 of 148 models Epoch has scored. Epoch AI benchmark results: GPQA Diamond 37.7%, FrontierMath Tiers 1–3 0.7%, OTIS Mock AIME 2024–2025 6.9%, SimpleQA Verified 8.3%.
Is GPT-4o mini open source?
No. GPT-4o mini is proprietary; you use it through OpenAI’s API or partner platforms.
What inputs does GPT-4o mini support?
GPT-4o mini accepts text, images and PDFs and replies in text. It is not a dedicated reasoning model, supports tool calling and can return structured JSON output.
When was GPT-4o mini released?
OpenAI released GPT-4o mini on Jul 18, 2024. Its training data runs to Sep 2023.
What are the best alternatives to GPT-4o mini?
The closest current models from other labs on capability, price and release date are Mistral Small 3.1 24B (Mistral AI, ECI 127.5, $0.229 / $0.436), Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct (Meta, ECI 125.9, $0.72 / $0.72), Claude Haiku 3.5 (Anthropic, ECI 127.2) and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct (Alibaba (Qwen), ECI 118.5, $0.175 / $0.70).