o4-mini
o4-mini by OpenAI. Official list price: $1.1 per 1M input and $4.4 per 1M output tokens.
Official price benchmark
USD per 1M tokens
- input
- $1.10
- output
- $4.40
- cache read
- $0.275
Your budget
Input:output ratio · Similar amounts of input and output
Purchasing power ranking
$100 · o4-mini · Balanced
Best price
Tokemart
−93%
providers
8
max −93%
Purchasing power ranking
The provider's published prices next to the vendor's official list.
| # | Provider | Input | Output | Cache | Uptime | Latency | Score | Tokens for budget | Save |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Official price | $1.10 | $4.40 | $0.275 | — | — | — | 36.4M | 0% |
| 1 | Minimum top-up: $2· Nov 07, 2026 | $0.076 | $0.305 | $0.020 | 98.7% | 930 ms | 92 | 524M | −93% |
| 2 | Minimum top-up: $5· Nov 10, 2026 | $0.100 | $0.400 | $0.023 | 100.0% | 616 ms | 96 | 400M | −91% |
| 3 | Minimum top-up: ¥10· Nov 10, 2026 | $0.125 | $0.502 | $0.032 | 100.0% | 458 ms | 98 | 319M | −89% |
| 4 | Minimum top-up: $1· Nov 09, 2026 | $0.183 | $0.733 | $0.042 | 100.0% | 751 ms | 95 | 218M | −83% |
| 5 | Minimum top-up: ¥20· Nov 08, 2026 | $0.326 | $1.30 | $0.089 | 100.0% | 900 ms | 93 | 123M | −70% |
| 6 | Minimum top-up: $10· Nov 07, 2026 | $0.532 | $2.13 | $0.126 | 100.0% | 391 ms | 99 | 75.2M | −52% |
| 7 | Minimum top-up: $50· Nov 07, 2026 | $0.612 | $2.45 | $0.142 | 100.0% | 350 ms | 99 | 65.4M | −44% |
| 8 | Minimum top-up: $25· Nov 10, 2026 | $0.894 | $3.58 | $0.211 | 98.7% | 656 ms | 95 | 44.7M | −19% |
Some links on this site are partner links. They do not affect prices or ranking. Uptime and latency come from our own GET /models probes every 30 minutes, not a guarantee that the model is available.
Cost estimate
What one request and a month of traffic cost at the selected provider.
per request
$0
per month
$1.49
Tokemart · −93% · 1.20K / 500
Other models
Frequently asked questions
Answers are generated from the live quotes.
We collect o4-mini prices two ways: the official OpenAI list and quotes from providers our crawler checks daily. Providers in our catalogue sell o4-mini at $0.076 in / $0.305 out (93% below the official list). Everything is normalised to a blended cost at a chosen input:output ratio, so “o4-mini price per 1M tokens” means the same thing on every page.
What does the o4-mini API cost?
The official OpenAI list price is $1.10 per 1M input tokens and $4.40 per 1M output tokens. Cached input is $0.275 per 1M tokens, 4× cheaper than the regular input.
How much does 1 million tokens of o4-mini cost?
1M input tokens cost $1.10, 1M output tokens — $4.40. With a 1:1 input/output load a million tokens works out to about $2.75. Chatbots with long context push the blended price down; code generation pushes it up.
Where is the o4-mini API cheapest?
Our measurements show Tokemart as the cheapest: 93% below the official price (sample listing). Quotes from 8 providers refresh daily — see the table above.
What is the o4-mini context window?
The context window is 200K tokens. Some vendors raise the price above a context threshold — check the plan notes.
How do I check that a provider key works?
The free checker sends a GET request to your endpoint's model list and reports status and latency. The key is not stored server-side.