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o3-mini
openai·openai/o3-mini-2·Deprecated·Closed·o-mini series
Smaller o-series reasoner for economical coding, math, and planning tasks
At a glance
Official price$1.10 / $4.40 per 1M
Cache read $0.55 · OpenAI
Lowest paid$0.99 / $4.00
Poe Gateway · 1.1× spread
Context200,000
⚠ Providers report 131,072–200,000; the table below is authoritative
Output limit100,000
Capabilities
✓ Reasoning✓ Tool use✓ Structured outputTemperatureAttachments
⚠ Providers report capability flags inconsistently
Modalities
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Knowledge cutoff2024-05
Released / updated2024-12-20 / 2025-01-29
Quality & performanceArtificial Analysis · Intelligence Index v4.1
Intelligence19.2
Value11
Coding—
Agentic—
Output speed221 tok/s
TTFT6.45 s
Value formulaIQ 19.2 ÷ min blended $1.742 = 11
Reasoning tier → intelligence / speed (higher tier = stronger but slower)
highIQ 15.7 · 220 tok/s
defaultIQ 19.2 · 221 tok/s
Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.
Available at 16 providers15 with public prices
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poe openai/o3-mini | Gateway | $0.99 | $4.00 | — | — | 200,000 | 100,000 | |
| Impossibl openai/o3-mini | Gateway | $1.10 | $4.40 | $0.55 | — | 200,000 | 100,000 | |
| Jiekou.AI o3-mini | Gateway | $1.10 | $4.40 | — | — | 131,072 ⚠ | 131,072 | |
| OpenRouter openai/o3-mini | Gateway | $1.10 | $4.40 | $0.55 | — | 200,000 | 100,000 | |
| OpenAIOfficial o3-mini | First-party | $1.10 | $4.40 | $0.55 | — | 200,000 | 100,000 | deprecated |
| NEAR AI Cloud openai/o3-mini | Gateway | $1.10 | $4.40 | $0.55 | — | 200,000 | 100,000 | |
| Merge Gateway openai/o3-mini | Gateway | $1.10 | $4.40 | $0.55 | — | 200,000 | 100,000 | |
| Cloudflare AI Gateway openai/o3-mini | Cloud | $1.10 | $4.40 | $0.55 | — | 200,000 | 100,000 | deprecated |
| Azure Cognitive Services o3-mini | First-party | $1.10 | $4.40 | $0.55 | — | 200,000 | 100,000 | deprecated |
| Azure o3-mini | First-party | $1.10 | $4.40 | $0.55 | — | 200,000 | 100,000 | deprecated |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
Your usage cost
1Impossibl$374.00
2OpenRouter$374.00
3OpenAI · Official$374.00
4NEAR AI Cloud$374.00
5Merge Gateway$374.00
6Cloudflare AI Gateway$374.00
Switch to Impossibl to save $0.00/mo (0%). The gap is small, so staying on the official channel is fine.
Note: this is a gateway; verify availability and rate limits yourself.
Benchmark1 items
| Name | Conditions | Score | Metric | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | — | 60.4 | percent correct | Source ↗ |
The same benchmark scores very differently across harness / dataset, so the qualifying conditions must be shown together.
Reasoning control
effort = loweffort = mediumeffort = higheffort = none
2 / 16 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).
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Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
Input listOutput listMin blended