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o3-mini

openai·openai/o3-mini·Deprecated·Closed·o-mini series
Smaller o-series reasoner for economical coding, math, and planning tasks

o3-mini by openai is offered by 21 providers on this page. Public prices are shown for 20 of them. Its official list price is $1.10 per 1M input tokens and $4.40 per 1M output tokens.

The context window is 200,000 tokens at the reference host, but hosts report different limits, from 131,072 to 200,000, so the usable window depends on the provider you pick. It supports reasoning, tool use, and structured output. Accepted input modalities are Text, Image, and PDF. Providers report the capability flags inconsistently, so verify a specific feature against the host you plan to use. Its training knowledge cuts off at 2024-05.

Specs & pricing

Input / output per 1M tokens
Official price·OpenAI
$1.10 / $4.40
Blended $1.93 · Cache read $0.55
Lowest paid·PoeGateway
$0.99 / $4.00
Blended $1.74 · 1.1× spread
Context
200,000
Output limit
100,000
Knowledge cutoff
2024-05
Released / updated
2024-12-20 / 2025-01-29
Capabilities
✓ Reasoning✓ Tool use✓ Structured outputTemperatureAttachments
⚠ Providers report capability flags inconsistently
Modalities
TextImagePDF

Available at 21 providers20 with public prices

ProviderTierInputOutputCache readCache writeContextOutput limitStatus
PoeGateway$0.99$4.00——200,000100,000
ImpossiblGateway$1.10$4.40$0.55—200,000100,000
Azure Cognitive ServicesFirst-party$1.10$4.40$0.55—200,000100,000deprecated
Jiekou.AIGateway$1.10$4.40——131,072 ⚠131,072
Vercel AI GatewayCloud$1.10$4.40$0.55—200,000100,000deprecated
DevPass (LLM Gateway)Gateway$1.10$4.40$0.55—200,000100,000
Cloudflare AI GatewayCloud$1.10$4.40$0.55—200,000100,000
Kilo GatewayGateway$1.10$4.40$0.55—200,000100,000
AzureFirst-party$1.10$4.40$0.55—200,000100,000deprecated
Merge GatewayGateway$1.10$4.40$0.55—200,000100,000
OpenAIOfficialFirst-party$1.10$4.40$0.55—200,000100,000deprecated

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
2Azure Cognitive Services$374.00
3Vercel AI Gateway$374.00
4DevPass (LLM Gateway)$374.00
5Cloudflare AI Gateway$374.00
6Kilo Gateway$374.00
12OpenAI · Official$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

NameConditionsScoreMetricSource
Aider Polyglot—60.4percent correctSource ↗

The same benchmark scores very differently across harness / dataset, so the qualifying conditions must be shown together.

Reasoning control

effort = loweffort = mediumeffort = higheffort = noneToggle (on / off)

2 / 21 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).

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Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync

Input listOutput listMin blended
$4.40$02026-08-052026-09-032026-08-05 · Input list $1.102026-08-06 · Input list $1.102026-08-07 · Input list $1.102026-08-08 · Input list $1.102026-08-09 · Input list $1.102026-08-10 · Input list $1.102026-08-11 · Input list $1.102026-08-12 · Input list $1.102026-08-13 · Input list $1.102026-09-03 · Input list $1.102026-08-05 · Output list $4.402026-08-06 · Output list $4.402026-08-07 · Output list $4.402026-08-08 · Output list $4.402026-08-09 · Output list $4.402026-08-10 · Output list $4.402026-08-11 · Output list $4.402026-08-12 · Output list $4.402026-08-13 · Output list $4.402026-09-03 · Output list $4.402026-08-05 · Min blended $1.742026-08-06 · Min blended $1.742026-08-07 · Min blended $1.742026-08-08 · Min blended $1.742026-08-09 · Min blended $1.742026-08-10 · Min blended $1.742026-08-11 · Min blended $1.742026-08-12 · Min blended $1.742026-08-13 · Min blended $1.932026-09-03 · Min blended $1.74
Data partly from models.dev (MIT) · OpenAI official docs ↗