GPT-4o mini

📋 Overview

GPT-4o mini is OpenAI's most affordable large model, priced at just $0.15 per million input tokens — 60% cheaper than GPT-3.5 Turbo and dramatically cheaper than any GPT-4-class model. Despite its compact size, it delivers impressive quality on most everyday tasks including classification, summarization, code completion, translation, and simple reasoning chains. The model supports vision and text inputs along with function calling, JSON mode output, and streaming responses for versatile integration. GPT-4o mini is available exclusively via OpenAI's API and powers ChatGPT's free tier, demonstrating its capability at massive scale. Its extremely low cost and fast inference make it the default choice for production workloads where volume and cost-efficiency are more important than maximal reasoning depth.

✨ Key Features

• •Only $0.15/1M input, $0.60/1M output — cheapest model available from any major lab
• •60% cheaper than GPT-3.5 Turbo with competitive quality on routine tasks
• •Handles most tasks that GPT-4 does effectively at a fraction of the price
• •Supports vision, function calling, JSON mode, and streaming responses
• •Powers ChatGPT free tier — battle-tested at massive scale
• •Fast inference suitable for real-time and high-volume applications
• •Ideal for classification, summarization, translation, and code completion
• •Simple reasoning chains — surprisingly capable for its size
• •Massive OpenAI infrastructure prevents rate limit issues for most teams