O4 Mini: API pricing, providers and specs
O4 Mini is a text model by OpenAI. 15 providers serve it, from $3.52 to $4.40 /1M; the lowest price is at APIMart.
Lowest price$3.52/1Mat APIMart
Maker's price$4.40/1M20% more than the lowest
Providers15
Context200KMax output 100K
How O4 Mini compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Pricey for its class: at $3.52 /1M, its lowest price is above 73% of comparable models (median $1.10).
- Its 200K-token context window is larger than 32% of them (median 262K), about 300 pages of text.
- On LMArena's Text board it ranks #62 of the 120 comparable models scored there.
- 15 providers serve it; 84% of comparable models have fewer.
O4 Mini prices by provider
Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.
| Provider | Input | Output | Prompt caching | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APIMart | $0.88/1M | $3.52/1M | — | — |
 CometAPI | $0.88/1M | $3.52/1M | — | — |
| Replicate | $1/1M | $4/1M | — | — |
| OpenAIOfficial | $1.10/1M | From$4.40/1M | $0.275/1M | — |
| Vercel AI Gateway | $1.10/1M | $4.40/1M | $0.275/1M | 200K |
 NEAR AI Cloud | $1.10/1M | $4.40/1M | $0.275/1M | 200K |
 Helicone | $1.10/1M | From$4.40/1M | $0.275/1M | — |
 AIHubMix | $1.10/1M | $4.40/1M | $0.275/1M | 200K |
 Impossibl | $1.10/1M | $4.40/1M | $0.275/1M | — |
| OpenRouter | $1.10/1M | From$4.40/1M | $0.275/1M | 200K |
 APIYI | $1.10/1M | $4.40/1M | — | — |
 LaoZhang API | $1.10/1M | $4.40/1M | — | — |
 Requesty | $1.10/1M | From$4.40/1M | $0.275/1M | 200K |
 Azure | $1.10/1M | From$4.40/1M | $0.275/1M | — |
 FastRouter | $1.10/1M | $4.40/1M | $0.275/1M | 200K |
- APIMart$3.52
- CometAPI$3.52
- Replicate$4
- Vercel AI Gateway$4.40
- NEAR AI Cloud$4.40
- AIHubMix$4.40
- Impossibl$4.40
- APIYI$4.40
- LaoZhang API$4.40
- FastRouter$4.40
- OpenAIOfficialFrom$4.40
- HeliconeFrom$4.40
Prices in US dollars, updated daily from each provider. Prices last checked Oct 26, 2026.
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- OpenAI
- Inputs
- Image, Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 200K≈ 300 pages of text
- Max output
- 100K
- Capabilities
- Prompt caching, JSON, Reasoning, Tool calling, Vision
- Released
- Apr 16, 2025
- License
- —
- Open weights
- —
- Arena score
- 1353Text
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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APIMart, at $3.52 /1M. 15 providers serve O4 Mini; the table above lists every one with its price.
O4 Mini reads up to 200K tokens per request and writes up to 100K.
We have not found O4 Mini's weights published by its maker.
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