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o4-mini
openai·openai/o4-mini-2·Deprecated·Closed·o-mini series
Fast o-series model for compact reasoning, coding, and tool use
At a glance
Official price$1.10 / $4.40 per 1M
Cache read $0.275 · OpenAI
Lowest paid$0.99 / $4.00
Poe Gateway · 1.1× spread
Context200,000
Output limit100,000
Capabilities
✓ Reasoning✓ Tool use✓ Structured outputTemperature✓ Attachments
⚠ Providers report capability flags inconsistently
Modalities
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Knowledge cutoff2024-05
Released / updated2025-04-16 / 2025-04-16
Quality & performanceArtificial Analysis · Intelligence Index v4.1 · rep. tier high
Intelligence26.1
Value15
Coding—
Agentic—
Output speed143 tok/s
TTFT29.16 s
Value formulaIQ 26.1 ÷ min blended $1.742 = 15
Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.
Available at 17 providers15 with public prices
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poe openai/o4-mini | Gateway | $0.99 | $4.00 | $0.25 | — | 200,000 | 100,000 | |
| Impossibl openai/o4-mini | Gateway | $1.10 | $4.40 | $0.275 | — | 200,000 | 100,000 | |
| Jiekou.AI o4-mini | Gateway | $1.10 | $4.40 | — | — | 200,000 | 100,000 | |
| OpenRouter openai/o4-mini | Gateway | $1.10 | $4.40 | $0.275 | — | 200,000 | 100,000 | |
| OpenAIOfficial o4-mini | First-party | $1.10 | $4.40 | $0.275 | — | 200,000 | 100,000 | deprecated |
| NEAR AI Cloud openai/o4-mini | Gateway | $1.10 | $4.40 | $0.275 | — | 200,000 | 100,000 | |
| Merge Gateway openai/o4-mini | Gateway | $1.10 | $4.40 | $0.275 | — | 200,000 | 100,000 | |
| Cloudflare AI Gateway openai/o4-mini | Cloud | $1.10 | $4.40 | $0.275 | — | 200,000 | 100,000 | deprecated |
| Azure Cognitive Services o4-mini | First-party | $1.10 | $4.40 | $0.275 | — | 200,000 | 100,000 | deprecated |
| Azure o4-mini | First-party | $1.10 | $4.40 | $0.275 | — | 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
1Poe$309.20
2Impossibl$341.00
3OpenRouter$341.00
4OpenAI · Official$341.00
5NEAR AI Cloud$341.00
6Merge Gateway$341.00
Switch to Poe to save $31.80/mo (9%). 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 | — | 72 | 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 / 17 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).
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