OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini

OpenAIID: openai/gpt-4o-mini

GPT-4o mini is OpenAI's newest model after [GPT-4 Omni](/models/openai/gpt-4o), supporting both text and image inputs with text outputs. As their most advanced small model, it is many multiples more affordable than other recent frontier models, and more than 60% cheaper than [GPT-3.5 Turbo](/models/openai/gpt-3.5-turbo). It maintains SOTA intelligence, while being significantly more cost-effective. GPT-4o mini achieves an 82% score on MMLU and presently ranks higher than GPT-4 on chat preferences [common leaderboards](https://arena.lmsys.org/). Check out the [launch announcement](https://openai.com/index/gpt-4o-mini-advancing-cost-efficient-intelligence/) to learn more. #multimodal

Pricing per 1M Tokens

Input (Prompt)$0.15
Output (Completion)$0.60
Cache Read$0.07
Cache WriteFree
ImageN/A

Specifications

Context Length128K
Max Output Tokens16K
Input ModalitiesText + Image + File
Output ModalitiesText
TokenizerGPT
Instruct TypeN/A
Top Provider Context128K
Top Provider Max Output16K
ModeratedYes

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Last updated: March 23, 2026

First tracked: March 23, 2026