Claude Fable 5$22.000/MClaude Opus 4.8$11.000/MClaude Opus 4.7$11.000/MClaude Opus 4.6$11.000/MClaude Opus 4.5$33.000/MClaude Sonnet 3.7$6.600/MClaude Opus 3$33.000/MClaude 2.1$12.800/MClaude 2$12.800/MGPT-5.5$12.500/MGPT-5.2$5.425/MGPT-5.2-Codex$5.425/MGPT-5$3.875/MGPT-4.5$97.500/MGPT-4 Turbo Preview$16.000/MGPT-4$39.000/MGPT-4-32k$78.000/Mo3$19.000/Mo3-mini$2.090/Mo4-mini$2.090/Mo1$28.500/Mo1-mini$5.700/Mo1-preview$28.500/MGemini 3.5 Pro$5.000/MGemini 3.1 Pro$5.000/MGemini 3 Pro$5.000/MGemini 2.5 Pro$3.875/MGemini 1.5 Pro$2.375/MGemini 1.0 Ultra$12.000/MGemini 1.0 Pro$0.800/MClaude Fable 5$22.000/MClaude Opus 4.8$11.000/MClaude Opus 4.7$11.000/MClaude Opus 4.6$11.000/MClaude Opus 4.5$33.000/MClaude Sonnet 3.7$6.600/MClaude Opus 3$33.000/MClaude 2.1$12.800/MClaude 2$12.800/MGPT-5.5$12.500/MGPT-5.2$5.425/MGPT-5.2-Codex$5.425/MGPT-5$3.875/MGPT-4.5$97.500/MGPT-4 Turbo Preview$16.000/MGPT-4$39.000/MGPT-4-32k$78.000/Mo3$19.000/Mo3-mini$2.090/Mo4-mini$2.090/Mo1$28.500/Mo1-mini$5.700/Mo1-preview$28.500/MGemini 3.5 Pro$5.000/MGemini 3.1 Pro$5.000/MGemini 3 Pro$5.000/MGemini 2.5 Pro$3.875/MGemini 1.5 Pro$2.375/MGemini 1.0 Ultra$12.000/MGemini 1.0 Pro$0.800/M
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o4 Mini Deep Research

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o4 Mini Deep Research is a compact variant — chosen for high throughput and low cost rather than absolute capability. Available via OpenAI. 200K-token context. Mid-tier pricing.

o4 Mini Deep Research is a multimodal AI model from OpenAI. It costs $2.000 per million input tokens and $8.000 per million output tokens (blended $3.800/M), with a 200K-token context window.

Modalities text, visionProvider pricing ↗API docs ↗Pricing source ↗Compare with another model →Estimate monthly cost →
INPUT
$2.000/M
per million input tokens
OUTPUT
$8.000/M
per million output tokens
BLENDED 70/30
$3.800/M
default reference rate · how it's calculated →
CONTEXT
200K
200,000 tokens
What it's good at
  • Sub-second latency
  • Affordable at scale
  • Good for routing & classification
  • Multimodal: handles images alongside text
Typical use cases
  • Routing & classification
  • Bulk summarisation
  • Realtime chat UX
Benchmarks
No published benchmark scores tracked for this model yet. Frontier and reasoning models from major providers have scores; smaller models and inference-host variants typically inherit the underlying open-weights score.
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Frequently asked questions

How much does o4 Mini Deep Research cost?

o4 Mini Deep Research costs $2.000 per million input tokens and $8.000 per million output tokens, for a blended reference rate of $3.800 per million tokens.

What is o4 Mini Deep Research's context window?

o4 Mini Deep Research supports up to 200K tokens of context (200,000 tokens).

What is o4 Mini Deep Research best for?

o4 Mini Deep Research is well suited to Sub-second latency, Affordable at scale and Good for routing & classification.

Who makes o4 Mini Deep Research?

o4 Mini Deep Research is developed and served by OpenAI.