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GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18)

BETTER VALUE OPTION

A stored alternative has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price.

$0.263 / 1M tokens Balanced · 3 tokens in per 1 out

GPT-6 Luna · Δ score 105.1 points · 24% lower measured price · $0.200 / 1M tokens

GLM 5.3 Flash is a further stored option with these losses: no file input

Independent LMArena score
1,286.4 ± 3.52 · 68,697 votes
Context window
128K
Maximum output
16.38K
Input modalities
text, image, file
Output modalities
text
Published input price
$0.150 / 1M tokens
Published output price
$0.600 / 1M tokens
Pricing kind
fixed

Inspect complete billing conditions and endpoint terms below.

Price from OpenAI: the cheapest offer that is serving, at standard delivery and at the maker’s precision or better, at its standard rate.

Every price dimension · USD per million tokens
Input$0.150/M
Output$0.600/M
Cached input$0.075/M
Cache writeUnknown/M
Cache write 1hUnknown/M
ReasoningUnknown/M

Who sells it

The same weights, different shops. Cheapest is not like-for-like when serving precision differs.

1 provider offers · rates, limits and conditions

Rates are USD per million tokens. Endpoint terms can differ even when the quoted price and precision match. A listed parameter is a provider declaration, not a task-success test.

SellerInputOutputPrecisionUptime (1d)
OpenAIopenai
Endpoint terms
Cached input /M
$0.075
Context limit
128,000 tokens
Output limit
16,384 tokens
Tools
Listed by endpoint
Reasoning
Not listed by endpoint
Promotional discount
None reported
Uptime · last 30 minutes
100.00%
$0.150 $0.600 undeclared 100.00%

Independent scores

LMArena Elo1286.4default

LMArena Elo under CC BY 4.0. Absence of another board is not a score of zero.

Capability

Context window128K
Max output16K
Input modestext, image, file
Tool useyes
Reasoningno
Knowledge cutoff2023-10-31
Open weightsno

Provenance

Price sourceopenrouter.ai
Fetched2026-10-06
Quality dataverified

GPT-4o mini is OpenAI's newest model after [GPT-4 Omni](/models/openai/gpt-4o), supporting both text and image inputs with text outputs. As their most advanced small model, it is many multiples more affordable...

Questions this page answers

What does GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) cost?

$0.150/M in, $0.600/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription.

Does GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) have an independent quality score?

GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) has an LMArena score in this catalogue.

What beats GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18)?

GPT-6 Luna has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price.

Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18)?

No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated.

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