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o4-mini token cost
OpenAI · context 200,000 tokens · tokenizer Exact
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When to use o4-mini
Smaller reasoning model when o3 is too expensive. Use for math, planning, and agent steps where you need chain-of-thought style work on a budget.
Pricing
- Input
- $1.10/1M
- Output
- $4.40/1M
- Cached input
- $0.275/1M
- Batch input
- $0.550/1M
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