o4-mini
OpenAI llmOpenAI's smaller, cost-efficient reasoning model released alongside o3, with native tool use and image reasoning. Its announcement reports only tool-augmented figures, so no comparable no-tools scores are recorded here yet.
overall ⌄
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nothing published
price · $/M tokens
1.1 / 4.4
in / out, as of 2026-07-25
to run it yourself ⌄
API only
no weights to run
Benchmarks
What its maker published, and what anyone else measured. Every figure links the document it came from.
Cheaper, and at least as good
Nothing is both cheaper and ranked as high. This model is on the value frontier — whatever you pay for it, you are paying for something.
Lineage
No recorded lineage — root or standalone model.
Metadata
| org | OpenAI |
| released | 2025-04-16 |
| license | proprietary |