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o3 Mini: price, performance and context

Proprietary o3 Mini by OpenAI costs $1.10 per 1M input and $4.40 per 1M output tokens, handles up to 200K tokens in one request (≈ 600 pages of text) and scores 12.5 points on the AgentKernel performance index, rank 135 of 212.

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Updated Oct 09, 2026, 16:49 UTC · openai/o3-mini

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Key facts

Licence
Proprietary: no public weights, only through a provider API
Input / 1M tokens
$1.10
Output / 1M tokens
$4.40
Context window
200K tokens
Max. output
100K tokens
Performance index
12.5 points · rank 135 of 212
Coding index
n/a
Agentic index
n/a
Cost at your usage
$2.20 / month
Knowledge cutoff
Oct 2023
In the catalog since
Jan 31, 2025
Capabilities
Reasoning, 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$0.0034,000
Email draftsBullet points in, a finished email out$0.0024,900
Document summariesRead 10 pages, write a one-page summary$0.0061,700
Code reviewsReview and comment on 500 lines of code$0.01960
Book analysesAnalyse a 300-page book in one go$0.11984

Cheaper with similar performance

ModelLicencePerformanceYour cost / month
Ling 3.1 FlashinclusionAIProprietary41.1$0.00
Ling 3.0 Flash VLinclusionAIOpen24.6$0.036
Ling 3.0 FlashinclusionAIOpen20.1$0.037

Stronger models

ModelLicencePerformanceYour cost / month
Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507QwenOpen12.7$1.325
Kimi K2 0711Moonshot AIOpen12.7$1.145
GPT-4.1OpenAIProprietary12.7$4.00

Open alternatives

ModelLicencePerformanceYour cost / month
MiMo-V2.6-ProXiaomiOpen46.3$0.653
GLM 5.3Z.aiOpen44.8$1.79
Kimi K3Moonshot AIOpen43.6$4.195