GPT-4o-mini
- Family
- GPT-4o
- Released
- 2024-07-18
- Lifecycle
- Scheduled retirement: January 14, 2027
- Context
- 128K
- Max output
- 16K
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2023-10
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryRestricted
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
Cheapest of 4 routes · OpenAI API · cache read $0.075
Cheapest of 4 routes · OpenAI API · cache read $0.075
About
OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini available via OpenRouter. Pricing: $0.15/1M input, $0.6/1M output.
Top use-case fit
Vision
Q/$ BProviders(4)
Compare all 4Compare API pricing across 4 tracked provider routes for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Cache | Route |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI API | $0.150 | $0.600 | read $0.075 | Serverless |
| OpenRouter | $0.150 | $0.600 | read $0.075 | Serverless |
| Vercel AI Gateway | $0.150 | $0.600 | read $0.075 | Serverless |
| Azure OpenAI | - | - | - | ServerlessPartial |
Available via routers & gateways(16)
LiteLLM
GatewayOpen-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.
OpenRouter
HybridUnified hybrid gateway to 500+ models from 80+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with an optional Auto Router that selects a model per prompt from market spend data.
Portkey
GatewayProduction AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, caching, and guardrails; MIT-licensed open-source core is self-hostable. Now part of Palo Alto Networks as Prisma AIRS AI Gateway.
AIRouter
RouterCommercial LLM router (branded "AI Router" on its site) that picks the best model per request via a Decision API or an OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions endpoint, with a private selection mode that routes on anonymized patterns; sold as BYOK subscription plans priced by routed tokens.
Azure AI Foundry Model Router
RouterMicrosoft Azure AI Foundry's native model router that uses a trained ML model to route each prompt in real time to the optimal Azure-hosted model, with Balanced/Cost/Quality mode selection and automatic failover.
Helicone
GatewayObservability-first AI gateway with routing, caching, rate limiting, and request tracing; Apache-2.0 open-source platform with a managed hosted tier for logging and analytics.
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Vision
Benchmark scores(4)
| Benchmark | Score | Version | Evaluation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1235.0 | —Observed 2026-04-15 | — | Source Source: LMArena (lmarena.ai), CC BY 4.0 | |
| 59.4 | —Observed 2026-04-15 | — | ||
| 55.3 | standard 4-option (original paper harness)Observed 2024-09-04 | — | ||
| 1097.0 | vision_style_control overall 2026-10-19 (style control, default view)Observed 2026-10-26 | Configuration: GPT-4o mini (2024-07-18) Harness: LMArena blind pairwise human votes, Bradley-Terry Evaluator: LMArena Confidence: confirmed Notes: LMArena vision style control leaderboard, overall category, published 2026-10-19 (HF lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset @9761a3ce, latest split; live page https://lmarena.ai/leaderboard/vision showed the same 2026-10-19 snapshot). Board entry 'GPT-4o mini (2024-07-18)': rank 137, Arena Score 1096.9 (95% CI 1088.6-1105.2), 17341 votes. Versioned arena label mapped to catalog slug gpt-4o-mini (label date equals the model's release checkpoint). Retrieved 2026-10-26. | Source Source: LMArena (lmarena.ai), CC BY 4.0 |
Migration checks
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