GPT-4o-mini
OpenAI · released Jul 18, 2024
- Type
- Proprietary
- Input
- $0.15
- Output
- $0.60
- Cached
- $0.075
List price · per 1M tokens · OpenAI at 128K context · source ↗
Our take
Written Aug 3, 2026GPT-4o-mini is OpenAI's small multimodal model that handles text, images and files within a 128,000-token request limit. It is a hosted-only entry point to the GPT-4o family, positioned as a budget option when full capability is unnecessary.
Pick this for budget multimodal tasks that need image or file parsing within a 128,000-token limit, or as a drop-in replacement where GPT-4o itself would be overkill. Use the Azure premium tier if you need the fastest measured throughput and can accept a higher rate. Skip it if you need verified quality scores to compare against alternatives, or if you want to run a model on your own hardware.
The case for it
- Same base rate across three major providers — no need to hunt for price arbitrage.
- Fastest measured throughput on the Azure premium tier at 47 tokens per second.
The case against it
- No verified quality scores in our data: no Elo, MMLU or task accuracy is published.
- Parameter count is undisclosed, so model size and efficiency cannot be judged.
- The premium Azure tier costs more for its speed gain.
How good is it?
We hold no score for this model.
We look for every model we track on every board we watch, and none of them has turned up GPT-4o-mini — so there is no intelligence, coding, agentic or writing score to show you, not a low one, none.
Or rent it from someone else
Why this differs from the header. The strip above quotes OpenAI's own list price. This is the cheapest live offer at the widest standard context we hold, whoever is serving it — a reseller undercutting a lab is ordinary commerce, not an error.
- per 1M tokens
- $0.15 in / $0.60 out
- Context served
- 128K
- Throughput
- Not measured
| Provider | In / out per 1M tokens | Context | Throughput | Trains on prompts | Logs prompts | Zero retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $0.15 / $0.60 | 128K | not measured | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Microsoft Azure AI | $0.15 / $0.60 | 128K | 28 tok/s | No | No | Confirmed |
| OpenAI | $0.15 / $0.60 | 128K16K out | 46 tok/s | No | Yesunknown period | Unknown |
| Microsoft Azure AIswedencentral | $0.17 / $0.66 | 128K | 96 tok/s | No | No | Confirmed |
Microsoft Azure AIAcross the 4 listings we hold: 3 say they do not train on prompts, 0 say they do and 1 do not say. 2 appear in the zero-retention registry we check; the rest are unknown to us rather than confirmed either way.
What each host's API supports
From the parameter list each endpoint publishes. Streaming is omitted: nothing we hold reports it, for any model.
- ✓
- Supported
- ✗
- Not supported
- Not published
- host gave no parameter list
| Provider | Tool calling | JSON output | Strict schema |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Microsoft Azure AI | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| OpenAI | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Microsoft Azure AIswedencentral | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
Tool calling: 2 of 4 listings say yes, 2 say no. JSON output: 4 of 4 listings say yes. Strict schema: 4 of 4 listings say yes.
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When we formed this view
Dates behind this page
Prices last checked 9d ago
What we do not know about this model yet
- No board we watch has turned up a score, so we hold no quality figures at all.
- Nothing we hold says whether an endpoint streams, so we do not show it either way.
- 1 of 4 listings do not say whether they train on prompts.
Licence and identifiers
What the licence allowsWe hold no licence record for this model. Inside are the identifiers you need to pull it — its Hugging Face repo where we have one, our slug and a machine-readable card.
Licence
Commercial API terms. We hold no licence record for this model, so there is nothing to summarise here.
Identifiers
- Modality record
- text+image+file->text
- Catalogue slug
- openai-gpt-4o-mini