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# OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18): $0.150/M in, $0.600/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper.

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

OpenAI · released 2024-07-18

 $0.263 per million tokens, balanced Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

## No independent quality score.

No benchmark we track has measured this model. That is not the same as measuring it and finding it wanting — we simply cannot rank it, so we do not.

### Every price dimension

| Input | $0.150 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $0.600 /M |
| Cached input | $0.075 /M |

### Independent scores

| LMArena Elo | 1286.6 default |
| --- | --- |

Sources are listed separately rather than averaged. Across the 62 models both have scored they correlate at r = 0.806 — close agreement overall, but four models rank very differently between them, and a blended score would hide exactly those.

### Capability

| Context window | 128K |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 16K |
| Input modes | text, image, file |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | no |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2023-10-31 |

### Provenance

| Price source | openrouter.ai |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| Quality data | unrated |

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...