o4 Mini (batch)

OpenAI chatreasoningtool_usevision Long

API ID: openai/o4-mini-2025-04-16

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Input Price
$0.55
/1M tokens
Output Price
$2.20
/1M tokens
Cached Input
$0.14
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About o4 Mini (batch)

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...

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Price Ranking
#987 lowest price among 1240 Chat models

Model Specifications

Context Length
200k
Max Output
100k
Release Date
2025-04-16
Capabilities
chat reasoning tool_use vision
Input Modalities
imagetextfile
Output Modalities
text

Best For

  • Complex reasoning, math problems, multi-step logic
  • Image analysis, document understanding, visual Q&A
  • Conversations, content writing, general assistance

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💰 Real-World Cost Examples

Estimated monthly costs for common use cases

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$0.91
/month
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/month
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$38.78
/month
500 analyses/day, ~2k tokens each
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🚀 Quick Start

Get started with o4 Mini (batch) API

OpenAI Python SDK 
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI()

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="openai/o4-mini-2025-04-16",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}
    ]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

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