OpenAI · Efficient
GPT-4o mini
OpenAI's most cost-efficient small model. Cheaper and smarter than GPT-3.5 (the original ChatGPT), but less performant than gpt-4o.
- Vision
- Input
- Text, Images
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Efficient
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.15
- Output
- $0.60
- Cache read
- $0.075
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 128K
- Max output
- 16.4K
- Average output (7 days)
- 29 tokens
- Longer than 1% of 465 models
Side by side
GPT-4o mini compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| GPT-4o miniOpenAIThis model | GPT 4.1 MiniOpenAIRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | OpenAI |
| Discovery tier | Efficient | Efficient |
| Added | Jan 1, 2024 | Sep 10, 2025 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 128K | 1.05MBest |
| Max output | 16.38K | 32.77KBest |
| Average output | 29 tokens | 19 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.15Best | $0.40 |
| Output | $0.60Best | $1.60 |
| Cache read | $0.075Best | $0.10 |
| Performance | ||
| Request success (24h) | 100.0% | 100.0% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 6.7 | 10.2Best |
| Coding Index | 11.4 | 20.2Best |
| Math Index | 14.7 | 46.3Best |
| Capabilities | ||
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | — | — |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- GPT-4o mini
- GPT 4.1 Mini
Intelligence Index
- GPT-4o mini6.7
- GPT 4.1 Mini10.2
GPT-4o mini: Better than 6% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Coding Index
Composite of the coding evaluations
- GPT-4o mini: 11.4
- GPT 4.1 Mini: 20.2Top
Math Index
Composite of the math evaluations
- GPT-4o mini: 14.7
- GPT 4.1 Mini: 46.3Top
Agentic work
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- GPT-4o mini: —
- GPT 4.1 Mini: 270 Elo
Document reasoning
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- GPT-4o mini: —
- GPT 4.1 Mini: 44.0%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- GPT-4o mini: 4.2%
- GPT 4.1 Mini: 5.0%Top
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- GPT-4o mini: 42.6%
- GPT 4.1 Mini: 66.4%Top
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- GPT-4o mini: 64.8%
- GPT 4.1 Mini: 78.1%Top
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- GPT-4o mini: 31.0%
- GPT 4.1 Mini: 38.3%Top
Coding
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- GPT-4o mini: 23.4%
- GPT 4.1 Mini: 48.3%Top
Math
AIME 2025
Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
- GPT-4o mini: 14.7%
- GPT 4.1 Mini: 46.3%Top
AIME
Competition mathematics
- GPT-4o mini: 11.7%
- GPT 4.1 Mini: 43.0%Top
MATH-500
Competition math problems
- GPT-4o mini: 78.9%
- GPT 4.1 Mini: 92.5%Top
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- GPT-4o mini: —
- GPT 4.1 Mini: 7.6%
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- GPT-4o mini: —
- GPT 4.1 Mini: 52.9%
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- GPT-4o mini: —
- GPT 4.1 Mini: 44.0%
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
- GPT-4o mini
- GPT 4.1 Mini
| Leaderboard | GPT-4o mini | GPT 4.1 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| Vision Style Control · Creative Writing | Not in top 20 | #11 · 1187.3 |
| Vision Style Control · Captioning | Not in top 20 | #12 · 1193.3 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on LMArena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.LMArena
Live routing data
Performance and reliability
Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.
- Prompt cache hits
- 0.0%
- About $0.15 per 1M input tokens with caching
- Request success (24h)
- 100.0%
- Reliable
Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.
- Healthy (98% or more)
- Degraded (90–98%)
- Down (under 90%)
- No requests
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "openai/gpt-4o-mini",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="openai/gpt-4o-mini",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)OpenAI
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