o4-mini pricing
o4-mini is priced at $2.00 per 1M input tokens and $8.00 per 1M output tokens, with roughly 280 ms to first token and about 80 tokens/sec output throughput.
Price per 1M tokens
Input $2.00 · Output $8.00 · Output/input ratio 4.0x.
- 1M input + 1M output tokens: $10.00
- 10M input + 2M output tokens/month: $36.00
- 100M input + 20M output tokens/month: $360.00
Cheaper alternatives to o4-mini
Same workload, lower output price. Validate quality before switching.
- mistral-large-4 — $6.00/1M output (25% cheaper)
- gpt-5-mini — $3.20/1M output (60% cheaper)
- amazon-nova-pro — $3.20/1M output (60% cheaper)
- claude-haiku-4.5 — $2.50/1M output (69% cheaper)
How much are you wasting on o4-mini?
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