OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini
GPT-4o-mini from OpenAI is an excellent value proposition — offering multimodal input, tool use, vision, and a 128K context window at just $0.15/1M input tokens, with solid benchmark scores for its price tier; it is well-suited to high-volume content, SEO, and lightweight agentic tasks.
Assessment date: March 12, 2026
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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 than other recent frontier models, and more than 60% cheaper than GPT-3.5 Turbo. It maintains SOTA intelligence, while being significantly more cost-effective. GPT-4o mini achieves an 82% score on MMLU and presently ranks higher than GPT-4 on chat preferences common leaderboards. Check out the launch announcement to learn more. #multimodal
Capabilities
Architecture
| Modality | Text + Image + File → Text |
| Tokenizer | GPT |
Benchmark Scores
Evaluations
Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face
Model Information
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.15 | $0.000150 |
| Output | $0.60 | $0.000600 |
Live Performance
Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.
