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OpenAI: o4 Mini High

This AI model, OpenAI: o4 Mini High, is designed for a range of applications that require advanced language understanding and generation capabilities. It supports three input modalities - image, text, and file - and can handle long contexts up to 200000 tokens. For users who need to process large amounts of input data or require structured output from their model, OpenAI: o4 Mini High may be worth considering due to its high context length and supported tools. However, the relatively high price point of $1.1 per million input tokens and $4.4 per million output tokens may deter some users. The model's benchmark blended score is 81.0 across one independent benchmark, but additional evaluation metrics are lacking.

Quality Score
100/100
price + capability + benchmarks
Input Price
$1.10
per 1M tokens · checked 2026-10-13
Output Price
$4.40
per 1M tokens · checked 2026-10-13
Context Window
200,000
tokens

Benchmark results

Independent, published benchmarks. Blended score 81.0 across 1 benchmark, last refreshed 2026-10-13. How scoring works →

BenchmarkMeasuresScore
Aider Polyglot code editing across languages 72.0
Model ID
openai/o4-mini-high
Vendor
openai
Released
April 2025
Tokenizer
GPT
Input Modalities
image, text, file
Output Modalities
text
Max Output
100,000 tokens
Tool Calling
✓ supported
Structured Output
✓ supported
Reasoning Mode
✓ supported
Vision
✓ accepts images
Audio
no
Moderated
yes

What it costs in practice

Computed from the current $1.10/M input and $4.40/M output rates. Run your own numbers →

JobTokensCost
Summarize a 50-page report 30k in / 1.5k out $0.04
Classify 1,000 customer emails 500k in / 50k out $0.77
A month of a busy support chatbot 5M in / 2M out $14.30

Category rankings

Where OpenAI: o4 Mini High places across the 5 categories it ranks in. How we rank →

#CategoryScore
#8 Function / Tool CallingAgents · of 25 ranked 128
#14 SOP / Process DocsBusiness · of 25 ranked 124
#19 Diagram ExtractionVision · of 25 ranked 134
#23 Data AnalysisData · of 25 ranked 137
#24 Experiment DesignResearch · of 25 ranked 133

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Quick answers

How much does OpenAI: o4 Mini High cost?
$1.10 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens.
What is OpenAI: o4 Mini High's context window?
200,000 tokens, roughly 300 pages of text in a single request.
Does OpenAI: o4 Mini High support tool calling?
It supports tool calling, structured output, a reasoning mode.
Can OpenAI: o4 Mini High process images?
Yes, it accepts image input.

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