o4-mini pricing, context window and limits
o4-mini costs $1.1 per million input tokens and $4.4 per million output tokens at OpenAI list price. It accepts up to 200,000 tokens of context and returns up to 100,000 tokens.
- Model id
o4-mini - Snapshot
What does o4-mini cost?
| Input | $1.1 |
|---|---|
| Output | $4.4 |
| Cached input (read) | $0.275 |
| Cache write | — |
US dollars per million tokens. A dash means no price is published.
How much can o4-mini read and write?
| Context window | 200,000 |
|---|---|
| Max output | 100,000 |
What can o4-mini do?
| Vision (image input) | Yes |
|---|---|
| Tool calling | Yes |
| Structured output | Yes |
| Reasoning | Yes |
| Input | text, image |
| Output | text |
What does a request to o4-mini cost?
| A typical request: 1,000 tokens in, 500 out | $0.0033 |
|---|---|
| A long request: 10,000 tokens in, 1,000 out | $0.015 |
| 1,000 typical requests | $3.3 |
| 1 million tokens in and 1 million out | $5.5 |
Input read from the provider's prompt cache costs $0.275 per million tokens instead of $1.1, 75% less. A request that repeats a 1,000-token prompt from the cache costs $0.0025 instead of $0.0033.
Among 49 OpenAI models with a published price, o4-mini is the 14th cheapest by input price. Its context window is the 28th largest of 48. List prices only; discounts, batch prices and prices above 200K tokens are not shown.
How do I call o4-mini through DVARA?
Configure the openai provider in the DVARA LLM Gateway and send the model id o4-mini. DVARA, the AI governance platform, applies your policies, audit and cost attribution to the call. See LLM cost attribution and budgets.
In DVARA, if you haven't set your own price for a model, its calls are costed at the price in the catalogue that ships with your DVARA version. A price you set in Flightdeck always wins. You can switch catalogue prices off. Then a model with no price you set is counted as costing nothing. Every cost record says which price it used.
Which other OpenAI models are there?
- o3-pro$20 in · $80 out · 200K context
- text-embedding-3-large$0.13 in · $0 out · 8K context
- o3-mini$1.1 in · $4.4 out · 200K context
- text-embedding-3-small$0.02 in · $0 out · 8K context
- o3$2 in · $8 out · 200K context
- text-embedding-ada-002$0.1 in · $0 out · 8K context
- o1-pro$150 in · $600 out · 200K context
- o1$15 in · $60 out · 200K context
- GPT-Realtime-2.1$4 in · $24 out · 128K context
- gpt-image-2$5 in · $30 out · — context
- gpt-image-1.5— in · — out · — context
- gpt-image-1-mini— in · — out · — context
Which models from other providers are similar to o4-mini?
These are the closest in context window and input price, one per provider.
- Claude Haiku 4.5 (AU)Amazon Bedrock · $1.1 in · $5.5 out · 200K context
- Claude Haiku 4.5 (latest)Anthropic · $1 in · $5 out · 200K context
- GLM-5Zhipu GLM · $1 in · $3.2 out · 205K context
- Grok Build 0.1xAI Grok · $1 in · $2 out · 256K context
- Qwen3.6 Max PreviewAlibaba Qwen · $1.32 in · $7.9 out · 246K context