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GPT-4o-mini: price, performance and context

Proprietary GPT-4o-mini by OpenAI costs $0.15 per 1M input and $0.60 per 1M output tokens, handles up to 128K tokens in one request (≈ 380 pages of text) and scores 6.7 points on the AgentKernel performance index, rank 194 of 212.

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Updated Oct 09, 2026, 16:49 UTC · openai/gpt-4o-mini

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Key facts

Licence
Proprietary: no public weights, only through a provider API
Input / 1M tokens
$0.15
Output / 1M tokens
$0.60
Context window
128K tokens
Max. output
16.4K tokens
Performance index
6.7 points · rank 194 of 212
Coding index
11.4 points · rank 110 of 119
Agentic index
n/a
Cost at your usage
$0.30 / month
Knowledge cutoff
Oct 2023
In the catalog since
Jul 18, 2024
Capabilities
Vision, Tool Calling, Files

What do you get for $10.00?

Rules of thumb from the cost calculator, base rates without caching or taxes.

TaskCost per taskFor $10.00
Chat repliesA question with a short history, a detailed answer$0.0029,000
Email draftsBullet points in, a finished email out$0.0036,000
Document summariesRead 10 pages, write a one-page summary$0.00113,000
Code reviewsReview and comment on 500 lines of code$0.0017,000
Book analysesAnalyse a 300-page book in one go$0.016620

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