OpenAIReleased on Apr 16, 2025

o4-mini: Benchmarks, Pricing & Context Window

o4-mini is a language model from OpenAI, released in April 2025, with multimodal input.

o4-mini is OpenAI's latest small o-series model, optimized for fast, effective reasoning with exceptionally efficient performance in coding and visual tasks. It is faster and more affordable than o3.

Input
TextImage
Output
Text

o4-mini pricing

Providers

o4-mini starts at $1.10 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens via OpenAI.

ProviderInput $/MOutput $/MMax InputMax OutputLatency sThroughputQuantInputOutput
OpenAI logoOpenAI
$1.10$4.40200.0K100.0K
5.20
115 c/s

o4-mini API

API access coming soon

o4-mini will be available through our gateway shortly.

o4-mini examples

Recent arena outputs from o4-mini, picked from the highest-ranked matchups.

o4-mini license

o4-mini is released under the Proprietary license, which restricts commercial use, has a knowledge cutoff of May 2024.

License
Proprietary
Non-commercial
Knowledge cutoff
May 2024

Proprietary license - usage restrictions apply

FAQ

Common questions about o4-mini.

What is the o4-mini release date?

o4-mini was released on April 16, 2025 by OpenAI.

Who created o4-mini?

o4-mini was created by OpenAI.

What is the license for o4-mini?

o4-mini is released under the Proprietary license.

What is the knowledge cutoff date for o4-mini?

o4-mini has a knowledge cutoff of May 2024. This means the model was trained on data up to this date and may not have information about events after this time.

Is o4-mini multimodal?

Yes, o4-mini is a multimodal model that can process both text and images as input.