GPT-4o mini

GPT-4o mini is OpenAI's newest model after GPT-4 Omni, supporting both text and image inputs with text outputs.

As their most advanced small model, it is many multiples more affordable than other recent frontier models, and more than 60% cheaper than GPT-3.5 Turbo. It maintains SOTA intelligence, while being significantly more cost-effective.

GPT-4o mini achieves an 82% score on MMLU and presently ranks higher than GPT-4 on chat preferences common leaderboards.

Check out the launch announcement to learn more.

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openai/gpt-4o-mini
Organization
OpenAI
Family
gpt-mini
Providers
20
Context
128,000
Output limit
16,384
Knowledge
2023-09
Release
2024-07-18
Updated
2024-07-18
Weights
Closed
Input
text, image, pdf
Output
text
Capabilities
Tools, Structured, Temperature

Providers

Compare every cataloged offer for this model, including its provider, route, token limits, price, and capabilities.

22 offers · USD per million tokens
ProviderModel IDContextOutputInput / output · 1MReasoningToolsStructuredDetails
Abacus
gpt-4o-mini
128,00016,384$0.15 / $0.60NoYesYes
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Azure
gpt-4o-mini
128,00016,384$0.15 / $0.60NoYes—
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Azure Cognitive Services
gpt-4o-mini
128,00016,384$0.15 / $0.60NoYes—
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Cloudflare AI Gateway
openai/gpt-4o-mini
128,00016,384$0.075 / $0.30NoYesYes
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Cortecs
gpt-4o-mini
128,00016,000$0.159 / $0.638NoYesNo
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CrossModel
openai/gpt-4o-mini
128,00016,384$0.15 / $0.60NoYesYes
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DevPass (LLM Gateway)
gpt-4o-mini
128,00016,384$0.15 / $0.60NoYesYes
View
Eden AI
openai/gpt-4o-mini
128,00016,384$0.15 / $0.60NoYesYes
View
Impossibl
openai/gpt-4o-mini
128,00016,384$0.15 / $0.60NoYesYes
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Kilo Gateway
openai/gpt-4o-mini
128,00016,384$0.15 / $0.60NoYesYes
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LLM Gateway
openai/gpt-4o-mini
128,00016,384$0.15 / $0.60NoYesYes
View
Merge Gateway
openai/gpt-4o-mini
128,00016,384$0.15 / $0.60NoYesYes
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NanoGPT
openai/gpt-4o-mini
128,00016,384$0.15 / $0.60NoNoNo
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Ofox
openai/gpt-4o-mini
128,00016,384$0.12 / $0.48NoYesYes
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Azurevia OpenRouter
openai/gpt-4o-mini
unknown
128,00016,384$0.165 / $0.66NoNoYes
View
Azurevia OpenRouter
openai/gpt-4o-mini
unknown
128,00016,384$0.15 / $0.60NoNoYes
View
OpenAIvia OpenRouter
openai/gpt-4o-mini
unknown
128,00016,384$0.15 / $0.60NoYesYes
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OrcaRouter
openai/gpt-4o-mini
128,00016,384$0.15 / $0.60NoYesYes
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Pioneer
gpt-4o-mini
128,00016,384$0.15 / $0.60NoYesYes
View
Requesty
gpt-4o-mini@eu
128,00016,000$0.165 / $0.66NoYesYes
View
Venice AI
openai-gpt-4o-mini-2024-07-18
128,00016,384$0.1875 / $0.75NoYesYes
View
Vercel AI Gateway
openai/gpt-4o-mini-fast
128,00016,384$0.25 / $1.00NoYesYes
View

Prices and limits apply to each offer. A dash means the value is not provided. OpenRouter offers show the hosting provider and routing channel separately.

Pricing

Compare token rates and cache charges across available routes and hosting configurations.

USD per million tokens
Input from$0.075Per 1M input tokens
Output from$0.30Per 1M output tokens
Available offers22Across 20 providers

Lowest listed input and output prices across the offers above; they may belong to different providers. These are base rates, before conditional pricing, discounts or additional fees.

Endpoint price comparisonLatest observed snapshot · 3 lowest-priced configurations
InputOutput
Azureazure
$0.15$0.60
OpenAIopenai
$0.15$0.60
Azureazure/swedencentral
$0.165$0.66
openai/gpt-4o-miniObserved
Input
$0.15
Output
$0.60
Cache read
$0.075
Hosting prices through OpenRouter All endpoints and cache rates
EndpointInput / 1MOutput / 1MCache read / 1MCache write / 1M
Azureazure/swedencentral$0.165$0.66$0.0825—
Azureazure$0.15$0.60$0.075—
OpenAIopenai$0.15$0.60$0.075—

Each row is a hosting configuration. Open an offer in Providers for its full pricing conditions and additional fees. Endpoint observations may differ from the routing catalog's base price.

Performance

Review reported latency and output-throughput percentiles from the latest observed rolling window.

Latest 30-minute observation

Time to first token · milliseconds

Latency distributionRolling 30-minute snapshot · 3 endpoints
P50P75P90P99
Azureazure/swedencentral
713.5–1,761.52 ms
Azureazure
1,273–3,166.27 ms
OpenAIopenai
565–3,310.72 ms
All latency percentiles 3 endpoints
EndpointP50P75P90P99
Azureazure/swedencentral713.5 ms763.5 ms912.2 ms1,761.52 ms
Azureazure1,273 ms1,538 ms1,864 ms3,166.27 ms
OpenAIopenai565 ms692 ms900.9 ms3,310.72 ms

Output throughput · tokens per second

Throughput distributionRolling 30-minute snapshot · 3 endpoints
P50P75P90P99
Azureazure/swedencentral
119–145.08 t/s
Azureazure
58–102 t/s
OpenAIopenai
71–112 t/s
All throughput percentiles 3 endpoints
EndpointP50P75P90P99
Azureazure/swedencentral119 t/s127 t/s134.4 t/s145.08 t/s
Azureazure58 t/s71 t/s82 t/s102 t/s
OpenAIopenai71 t/s85 t/s97 t/s112 t/s

Percentiles describe the observed request distribution. These are snapshots of a rolling window, not a historical time series.

Uptime

Compare successful request rates across the latest 5-minute, 30-minute, and 24-hour observations.

Successful requests by window
Availability by endpointCurrent overlapping windows · 3 endpoints
Endpoint5 minutes30 minutes24 hours
Azureazure/swedencentral
Azureazure
OpenAIopenai

Reported by OpenRouter at the time of collection; rate-limited requests are excluded. A dash means no measurement was reported. This is not a live availability check.

Benchmarks

Review attributed evaluation results on each source's original scale.

External evaluations
openai/gpt-4o-miniObserved
Benchmark profileArtificial Analysis · shared source scale from 0 to 20
Coding11.4

Sources: Artificial Analysis and Design Arena, via OpenRouter. Scores retain their original scales and are not OpenAI Suite ratings.

Detailed evaluations

Evaluation scoresAccuracy or item F1 · higher is better
gpqa diamondOpenAI: GPT-4o-mini
43.21%
tau bench verified airlineOpenAI: GPT-4o-mini
28.444%
EvaluationConfigurationSourceResultsDetails
Composite indicesGPT-4o miniopenai/gpt-4o-miniArtificial AnalysisIntelligence — · Coding 11.4 · Agentic —
Details
gpqa diamondOpenAI: GPT-4o-miniopenai/gpt-4o-miniOpenRouter43.21%
Details
tau bench verified airlineOpenAI: GPT-4o-miniopenai/gpt-4o-miniOpenRouter28.444%
Details

Sources: Artificial Analysis, Design Arena and OpenRouter. Evaluation configurations and scales differ; results are not interchangeable. Updated Oct 4, 2026.

Apps & session costs

Compare observed median session costs for applications using this model, grouped by conversation length.

30-day sample · through Sep 27, 2026
ApplicationModel routeTurnsMedian cost / sessionDetails
Hermes Agentopenai/gpt-4o-mini10–49 turns
$0.035612
Details
Hermes Agentopenai/gpt-4o-mini1 turn
$0.001317
Details
Hermes Agentopenai/gpt-4o-mini50+ turns
$0.207479
Details
Hermes Agentopenai/gpt-4o-mini2–9 turns
$0.004249
Details

Source: OpenRouter, as of Oct 2, 2026. Published under CC BY 4.0. These are observed costs per session, not token prices or a forecast for your workload. Apps are compared separately.

Activity

Daily prompt and completion tokens reported for this model's routes in OpenRouter's top 50. Missing days have no published value.

Last 90 complete UTC days
Daily token usage2,033,792,613,874 reported tokens · 60 days with observations
Jul 6, 2026Oct 3, 2026
Daily observations · 60 days
Date (UTC)Reported tokensReported routes
Sep 16, 202648,101,380,9551
Sep 8, 202641,385,452,9081
Sep 4, 202633,666,012,3481
Sep 2, 202632,711,218,3911
Sep 1, 202635,185,682,5021
Aug 31, 202632,410,566,3761
Aug 30, 202625,862,652,2681
Aug 28, 202633,227,906,1951
Aug 27, 202635,590,098,7291
Aug 26, 202636,548,432,7441
Aug 25, 202636,397,681,0401
Aug 24, 202635,594,703,7031
Aug 23, 202626,319,378,5231
Aug 22, 202630,700,118,5171
Aug 21, 202634,444,105,0971
Aug 20, 202637,779,475,5821
Aug 19, 202634,697,717,2761
Aug 18, 202633,664,202,0591
Aug 17, 202632,881,995,7191
Aug 16, 202623,622,764,5871
Aug 15, 202624,826,537,8501
Aug 14, 202628,855,005,0291
Aug 13, 202631,700,734,0021
Aug 12, 202630,092,412,6271
Aug 11, 202632,232,021,4951
Aug 10, 202632,144,692,0151
Aug 9, 202625,987,452,1631
Aug 8, 202625,247,486,6351
Aug 7, 202631,511,674,1121
Aug 6, 202630,608,719,6201
Aug 5, 202631,890,108,9701
Aug 4, 202631,956,892,8551
Aug 3, 202632,510,518,6871
Aug 2, 202624,597,929,5561
Aug 1, 202623,053,255,9631
Jul 31, 202629,948,314,5291
Jul 30, 202632,638,002,3241
Jul 29, 202634,766,158,4741
Jul 28, 202635,203,795,1741
Jul 27, 202635,198,347,2461
Jul 26, 202625,066,564,9611
Jul 25, 202622,865,443,4671
Jul 24, 202637,054,189,0411
Jul 23, 202635,849,612,2461
Jul 22, 202635,330,722,7161
Jul 21, 202647,278,277,5411
Jul 20, 202647,531,784,0701
Jul 19, 202661,943,325,1241
Jul 18, 202636,040,347,5151
Jul 17, 202635,232,317,3681
Jul 16, 202634,953,711,7641
Jul 15, 202640,563,725,4101
Jul 14, 202643,447,624,6641
Jul 13, 202630,171,682,0971
Jul 12, 202623,745,470,7961
Jul 11, 202625,099,684,6381
Jul 10, 202634,939,138,6871
Jul 9, 202634,848,609,4081
Jul 8, 202647,652,451,2131
Jul 7, 202648,416,326,3031

Source: OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings), as of Oct 4, 2026. CC BY 4.0. Totals include only individually published routes. Tokenizers differ by provider; the aggregated “other” category is never assigned to a model.

Technical details & API

Explore specifications, supported parameters, reasoning controls, and API identifiers for each OpenRouter route.

Current route specifications
openai/gpt-4o-miniObserved
Context
128,000
Maximum output
16,384
Tokenizer
GPT
Input
text, image, file
Output
text
Moderation
Yes
Knowledge cutoff
2023-10-31
Added to OpenRouter
2024-07-18
Base URLhttps://openrouter.ai/api/v1
Model IDopenai/gpt-4o-mini
Version IDopenai/gpt-4o-mini

Supported parameters

  • frequency_penalty
  • logit_bias
  • logprobs
  • max_completion_tokens
  • max_tokens
  • prediction
  • presence_penalty
  • response_format
  • seed
  • stop
  • structured_outputs
  • temperature
  • tool_choice
  • tools
  • top_logprobs
  • top_p
  • web_search_options

Frequently asked questions

Answers based on the model metadata and serving offers currently in the catalog.

How much does GPT-4o mini cost?

Listed rates start at $0.075 per million input tokens and $0.30 per million output tokens. Prices vary by provider and configuration; see Pricing for details.

Which providers offer GPT-4o mini?

There are 22 cataloged offers across 20 providers. Compare model IDs, prices and limits in Providers.

What is the context window?

The cataloged model context is 128,000 tokens. Each serving endpoint may apply a different limit.

Does it support tools and structured output?

Tool calling: Yes. Structured output: Yes. Support can vary by endpoint.

Catalog history · 2 recorded revisions

Metadata observations since this model was first cataloged. These are not model release versions.

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