OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18)
Analysis Summary
GPT-4o-mini is OpenAI's compact multimodal model, supporting text, image, and file inputs alongside tool use and function calling. It lacks its own benchmark data in this record, but its provider pedigree and broad capability set make it a practical choice for businesses needing a versatile, affordable model. Vision support adds meaningful value for document processing and image-aware workflows.
For businesses, it fits well in customer-facing automation, content moderation, structured data extraction from documents, and lightweight agentic pipelines. Its 128K context window handles most real-world document lengths. The main limitation is reasoning depth: it is not suited to complex multi-step analysis or advanced coding tasks where frontier models are needed.
At $0.15 input and $0.60 output per million tokens, it offers a strong price-to-capability ratio for OpenAI's ecosystem. Teams already using GPT-4o for heavy tasks can route simpler workloads here to reduce cost without sacrificing the reliability of the OpenAI platform.
Assessed June 6, 2026
Editorial notes
GPT-4o-mini from OpenAI combines vision, tool use, and function calling with competitive pricing, making it a capable and cost-effective choice for multimodal business workflows despite sitting below frontier reasoning performance.
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Performance Profile
How OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) compares
Its 128K-token context window is larger than 43% of the models we list. At $0.15 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 57% of comparable models.
About OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18)
GPT-4o mini is OpenAI's newest model after GPT-4 Omni, supporting both text and image inputs with text outputs. As their most advanced small model, it is many multiples more affordable..
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How does OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) stack up?
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Model Information
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.15 | $0.000150 |
| Output | $0.60 | $0.000600 |
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Frequently asked questions about OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18)
How much does OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) cost?
OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) costs $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18)?
OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) has a context window of 128,000 tokens (128K).
What can OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) do?
OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) supports image/vision input, tool use, and function calling.
Who created OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18)?
OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) is developed by OpenAI and was released on July 18, 2024.
