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# OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Mini — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Mini: $0.750/M in, $4.50/M out. Independent capability scores, and alternatives compared under recorded workload and capability requirements.

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MODEL PROOF

# GPT-5.4 Mini

OpenAI · 17 Mar 2026 · proprietary

 Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

BETTER VALUE OPTION

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

 **$1.69** / 1M tokens Balanced · 3 tokens in per 1 out

[GPT-5.6 Luna](/models/openai__gpt-5.6-luna/) · Δ score 19.6 points · 73% lower measured price · $0.450 / 1M tokens

[MiMo-V2.6-Pro](/models/xiaomi__mimo-v2.6-pro/) is a further stored option with these losses: no file input

Evidence as of 06 Oct 2026

 [openrouter/models](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) [Vendor cross-check](https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing) [LMArena · cc-by-4.0](https://huggingface.co/datasets/lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset) Independent LMArena score 1,411.4 ± 3.73 · 63,290 votes
 Context window 400K
 Maximum output 128K
 Input modalities file, image, text
 Output modalities text
 Published input price $0.750 / 1M tokens
 Published output price $4.50 / 1M tokens
 Pricing kind fixed

Inspect [complete billing conditions](#billing-details) 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.

Cheaper right now: $0.844/M at OpenAI — delivery tier (flex) It does not pass the like-for-like test, so it never sets a rank.

 Every price dimension · USD per million tokens

| Input | $0.750 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $4.50 /M |
| Cached input | $0.075 /M |
| Cache write | Unknown /M |
| Cache write 1h | Unknown /M |
| Reasoning | Unknown /M |
| Web search | $0.01 /call |
| Batch discount | 50% |

### Who sells it

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

 5 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.

| Seller | Input | Output | Precision | Uptime (1d) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Seller OpenAI openai/flex Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.038 Context limit 400,000 tokens Output limit 128,000 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 100.00% | Input $0.375 | Output $2.25 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 100.00% |
| Seller Azure azure Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.075 Context limit 400,000 tokens Output limit 128,000 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 99.86% | Input $0.750 | Output $4.50 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 99.75% |
| Seller OpenAI openai Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.075 Context limit 400,000 tokens Output limit 128,000 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 99.99% | Input $0.750 | Output $4.50 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 99.97% |
| Seller Azure azure/us Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.083 Context limit 400,000 tokens Output limit 128,000 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes Unknown | Input $0.825 | Output $4.95 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) — |
| Seller OpenAI openai/fast Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.150 Context limit 400,000 tokens Output limit 128,000 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes Unknown | Input $1.50 | Output $9.00 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 99.40% |

### Independent scores

| LMArena Elo | 1411.4 high |
| --- | --- |

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

### Capability

| Context window | 400K |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 128K |
| Input modes | file, image, text |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2025-08-31 |
| Open weights | no |

### Provenance

| Price source | [openrouter.ai](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-10-06 |
| Quality data | verified |
| Cross-checked | [vendor page](https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing) |

GPT-5.4 mini brings the core capabilities of GPT-5.4 to a faster, more efficient model optimized for high-throughput workloads. It supports text and image inputs with strong performance across reasoning, coding,...

## Questions this page answers

 What does GPT-5.4 Mini cost?

$0.750/M in, $4.50/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription.

 Does GPT-5.4 Mini have an independent quality score?

GPT-5.4 Mini has an LMArena score in this catalogue.

 What beats GPT-5.4 Mini?

GPT-5.6 Luna has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price.

 Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for GPT-5.4 Mini?

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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## Related

 - Both better and cheaper [GPT-5.6 Luna](/models/openai__gpt-5.6-luna/)
- Higher score and cheaper, with a named trade [MiMo-V2.6-Pro](/models/xiaomi__mimo-v2.6-pro/)
- Side by side [GPT-5.4 Nano](/compare/openai__gpt-5.4-mini--vs--openai__gpt-5.4-nano/)
- Nearby on the capability axis [GPT-5.2](/models/openai__gpt-5.2/)
- Same vendor [GPT-5](/models/openai__gpt-5/)
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- Where this model appears [spreads](/spreads/)
- Nearby on the capability axis [o3](/models/openai__o3/)
- Same vendor [GPT-5.1](/models/openai__gpt-5.1/)
- Where this model appears [significance](/significance/)
- Nearby on the capability axis [Qwen3 Max](/models/qwen__qwen3-max/)
- Same vendor [GPT-6 Sol](/models/openai__gpt-6-sol/)

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