o4-mini
OpenAI · o-series · context window 200,000 tokens.
Pricing (per 1M tokens)
Specifications
Intelligence & value
MeasuredWorth it? Qwen3.5 Flash matches or beats o4-mini on the overall Arena and costs about $18.70/month versus $385.00/month at 100,000 calls — roughly $366.30/month cheaper.
Intelligence scores are community Arena ratings from LMArena / arena.ai, used under CC BY 4.0. Snapshot last refreshed 27 August 2026. Scores are a relative signal, not an absolute measure of capability. A Measured score was voted on directly; an Estimated score is inherited from an identical base model (a regional/creator-prefixed hosting duplicate). See our methodology.
Where else you can run o4-mini
The same model is resold by 18 providers we track. The typical one charges 1.1× what the cheapest does — $1.93 against $1.74 per 1M tokens, blended 3:1. Routing the same workload to a different host is often a bigger saving than switching model.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Blended |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poe | $0.9900 | $4.00 | $1.74 |
| Abacus | $1.10 | $4.40 | $1.93 |
| Azure | $1.10 | $4.40 | $1.93 |
| Azure Cognitive Services | $1.10 | $4.40 | $1.93 |
| Cloudflare AI Gateway | $1.10 | $4.40 | $1.93 |
| Edenai | $1.10 | $4.40 | $1.93 |
| Helicone | $1.10 | $4.40 | $1.93 |
| Impossibl | $1.10 | $4.40 | $1.93 |
| Jiekou | $1.10 | $4.40 | $1.93 |
| Kilo | $1.10 | $4.40 | $1.93 |
Showing the 10 cheapest of 18. The full list for every model is in the open endpoint dataset.
Third-party listings via models.dev, not rates we verify with each host the way we do first-party pricing. Treat them as a shortlist to check, not a quote — and confirm quantisation, context limits and rate limits before switching, since a cheaper host is not always serving the same thing.
Estimate cost with o4-mini
o4-mini is pre-selected below. Enter your token counts and volume to see the cost per request, per day and per month — then switch models to compare.
Results update automatically as you type.
- Input cost
- $0.00110
- Output cost
- $0.00220
- Per request
- $0.00330
- Per day
- $3.30
- Per month
- $99.00
Compare o4-mini with
Source: OpenAI official API pricing. Prices are re-checked daily against the provider’s official pricing; this rate was last changed on 27 August 2026. A recent date here just means the price is still current, not that it moved.