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o4 Mini High Pricing
OpenAI · openai-o4-mini-high
Input / 1M tokens
$1.10
Output / 1M tokens
$4.40
Context window
200k tokens
≈ 267 pages of text
Max output
100k tokens
What it costs in practice
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out tokens)$0.0031
1,000 requests / month$3.08/mo10,000 requests / month$30.80/mo100,000 requests / month$308.00/moEstimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with o4 Mini High preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.
Price history
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What it excels at
Handles multi-step reasoning and visual analysis tasks with competitive accuracy for its price tier. Supports long context with high output limits.
The business tradeoff
Reasoning steps increase latency versus standard models. Output token cost is four times input, raising expense on long generations.
Cheaper from OpenAI
Head-to-head
Vendor list rates, as of Jun 15, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.