o4-mini
OpenAI o4-mini is a compact reasoning model in the o-series, optimized for fast, cost-efficient performance while retaining strong multimodal and agentic capabilities. It supports tool use and demonstrates competitive reasoning and coding performance across benchmarks like AIME (99.5% with Python) and SWE-bench, outperforming its predecessor o3-mini and even approaching o3 in some domains.
Despite its smaller size, o4-mini exhibits high accuracy in STEM tasks, visual problem solving (e.g., MathVista, MMMU), and code editing. It is especially well-suited for high-throughput scenarios where latency or cost is critical. Thanks to its efficient architecture and refined reinforcement learning training, o4-mini can chain tools, generate structured outputs, and solve multi-step tasks with minimal delay—often in under a minute.
- Organization
- OpenAI
- Family
- o-mini
- Providers
- 18
- Context
- 200,000
- Output limit
- 100,000
- Knowledge
- 2024-05
- Release
- 2025-04-16
- Updated
- 2025-04-16
- Weights
- Closed
- Input
- text, image
- Output
- text
- Capabilities
- Tools, Reasoning, Structured
Providers
Compare every cataloged offer for this model, including its provider, route, token limits, price, and capabilities.
| Provider | Model ID | Context | Output | Input / output · 1M | Reasoning | Tools | Structured | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abacus | o4-mini | 200,000 | 100,000 | $1.10 / $4.40 | Yes | Yes | Yes | View |
| AIHubMix | o4-mini | 200,000 | 100,000 | $1.10 / $4.40 | Yes | Yes | Yes | View |
| AnyAPI | openai/o4-mini | 200,000 | 100,000 | — / — | Yes | Yes | Yes | View |
| Azure | o4-mini | 200,000 | 100,000 | $1.10 / $4.40 | Yes | Yes | — | View |
| Azure Cognitive Services | o4-mini | 200,000 | 100,000 | $1.10 / $4.40 | Yes | Yes | — | View |
| Cloudflare AI Gateway | openai/o4-mini | 200,000 | 100,000 | $1.10 / $4.40 | Yes | Yes | Yes | View |
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) | o4-mini | 200,000 | 100,000 | $1.10 / $4.40 | Yes | Yes | Yes | View |
| Eden AI | openai/o4-mini | 200,000 | 100,000 | $1.10 / $4.40 | Yes | Yes | Yes | View |
| Impossibl | openai/o4-mini | 200,000 | 100,000 | $1.10 / $4.40 | Yes | Yes | Yes | View |
| Kilo Gateway | openai/o4-mini | 200,000 | 100,000 | $1.10 / $4.40 | Yes | Yes | Yes | View |
| LLM Gateway | openai/o4-mini | 200,000 | 100,000 | $1.10 / $4.40 | Yes | Yes | Yes | View |
| Merge Gateway | openai/o4-mini | 200,000 | 100,000 | $1.10 / $4.40 | Yes | Yes | Yes | View |
| Model Oracle AI | o4-mini | 200,000 | 100,000 | — / — | Yes | Yes | Yes | View |
| NanoGPT | openai/o4-mini | 200,000 | 100,000 | $1.10 / $4.40 | Yes | Yes | Yes | View |
| NEAR AI Cloud | openai/o4-mini | 200,000 | 100,000 | $1.10 / $4.40 | Yes | Yes | Yes | View |
| OpenAIvia OpenRouter | openai/o4-mini unknown | 200,000 | 100,000 | $1.10 / $4.40 | Yes | Yes | Yes | View |
| Requesty | o4-mini@eu | 200,000 | 100,000 | $1.21 / $4.84 | Yes | Yes | Yes | View |
| Vercel AI Gateway | openai/o4-mini-fast | 200,000 | 100,000 | $2.00 / $8.00 | Yes | Yes | Yes | 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
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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.
openai/o4-miniObserved - Input
- $1.10
- Output
- $4.40
- Cache read
- $0.275
Additional fees and pricing conditions
- web search
- $0.01 / search
Hosting prices through OpenRouter All endpoints and cache rates
| Endpoint | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Cache read / 1M | Cache write / 1M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAIopenai | $1.10 | $4.40 | $0.275 | — |
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.
Time to first token · milliseconds
All latency percentiles 1 endpoints
| Endpoint | P50 | P75 | P90 | P99 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAIopenai | 4,144.5 ms | 10,161.5 ms | 19,349.5 ms | 26,841.55 ms |
Output throughput · tokens per second
All throughput percentiles 1 endpoints
| Endpoint | P50 | P75 | P90 | P99 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAIopenai | 141 t/s | 192 t/s | 200 t/s | 208 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.
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.
openai/o4-miniObserved | Design Arena | Category | Elo | Win rate | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| models | 3d | 869 | 34% | 115 |
| models | codecategories | 982 | 46.4% | 116 |
| models | dataviz | 999 | 50% | 109 |
| models | gamedev | 1,016 | 50% | 108 |
| models | uicomponent | 990 | 46.9% | 109 |
| models | website | 992 | 47.1% | 119 |
Sources: Artificial Analysis and Design Arena, via OpenRouter. Scores retain their original scales and are not OpenAI Suite ratings.
Detailed evaluations
| Evaluation | Configuration | Source | Results | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| models · website | o4-miniopenai/o4-mini-2025-04-16 | Design Arena | 992 Elo | Details |
| models · codecategories | o4-miniopenai/o4-mini-2025-04-16 | Design Arena | 982 Elo | Details |
| models · uicomponent | o4-miniopenai/o4-mini-2025-04-16 | Design Arena | 990 Elo | Details |
| models · 3d | o4-miniopenai/o4-mini-2025-04-16 | Design Arena | 869 Elo | Details |
| models · gamedev | o4-miniopenai/o4-mini-2025-04-16 | Design Arena | 1,016 Elo | Details |
| models · dataviz | o4-miniopenai/o4-mini-2025-04-16 | Design Arena | 999 Elo | Details |
Sources: Artificial Analysis, Design Arena and OpenRouter. Evaluation configurations and scales differ; results are not interchangeable. Updated Oct 4, 2026.
Technical details & API
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openai/o4-miniObserved - Context
- 200,000
- Maximum output
- 100,000
- Tokenizer
- GPT
- Input
- image, text, file
- Output
- text
- Moderation
- Yes
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2024-06-30
- Added to OpenRouter
- 2025-04-16
https://openrouter.ai/api/v1openai/o4-miniopenai/o4-mini-2025-04-16Reasoning
- Required
- No
- Enabled by default
- Not reported
- Default effort
- —
- Supported efforts
- —
Supported parameters
include_reasoningmax_tokensreasoningresponse_formatseedstructured_outputstool_choicetools
Frequently asked questions
Answers based on the model metadata and serving offers currently in the catalog.
How much does o4-mini cost?
Listed rates start at $1.10 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens. Prices vary by provider and configuration; see Pricing for details.
Which providers offer o4-mini?
There are 18 cataloged offers across 18 providers. Compare model IDs, prices and limits in Providers.
What is the context window?
The cataloged model context is 200,000 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
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