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OpenAI

o4-mini

o4-mini by OpenAI. Official list price: $1.1 per 1M input and $4.4 per 1M output tokens.

Official price benchmark

USD per 1M tokens

input
$1.10
output
$4.40
cache read
$0.275
Official pricing page ↗

Your budget

$100Budget

Input:output ratio · Similar amounts of input and output

Purchasing power ranking

$100 · o4-mini · Balanced

Best price

RunAPI

−91%

providers

1

max −91%

Purchasing power ranking

The provider's published prices next to the vendor's official list.

#ProviderInputOutputCacheUptimeLatencyScoreTokens for budgetSave
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Official price
$1.10$4.40$0.275———36.4M0%
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RunAPIdegraded
· Nov 11, 2026
$0.096$0.384—90.0%1.03 s84417M−91%

Some links on this site are partner links. They do not affect prices or ranking. Uptime and latency come from our own GET /models probes every 30 minutes, not a guarantee that the model is available.

Cost estimate

What one request and a month of traffic cost at the selected provider.

per request

$0

per month

$1.87

RunAPI · −91% · 1.20K / 500

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Frequently asked questions

Answers are generated from the live quotes.

We collect o4-mini prices two ways: the official OpenAI list and quotes from providers our crawler checks daily. Providers in our catalogue sell o4-mini at $0.096 in / $0.384 out (91% below the official list). Everything is normalised to a blended cost at a chosen input:output ratio, so “o4-mini price per 1M tokens” means the same thing on every page.

What does the o4-mini API cost?

The official OpenAI list price is $1.10 per 1M input tokens and $4.40 per 1M output tokens. Cached input is $0.275 per 1M tokens, 4× cheaper than the regular input.

How much does 1 million tokens of o4-mini cost?

1M input tokens cost $1.10, 1M output tokens — $4.40. With a 1:1 input/output load a million tokens works out to about $2.75. Chatbots with long context push the blended price down; code generation pushes it up.

Where is the o4-mini API cheapest?

Our measurements show RunAPI as the cheapest: 91% below the official price. Quotes from 1 providers refresh daily — see the table above.

What is the o4-mini context window?

The context window is 200K tokens. Some vendors raise the price above a context threshold — check the plan notes.

How do I check that a provider key works?

The free checker sends a GET request to your endpoint's model list and reports status and latency. The key is not stored server-side.