GPT-4o-mini
- Family
- GPT-4o
- Released
- 2024-07-18
- Context
- 128k
- Max output
- 16,384
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2023-10
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
Cheapest of 4 routes · OpenAI API · cache read $0.075
About
OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini available via OpenRouter. Pricing: $0.15/1M input, $0.6/1M output.
Top use-case fit
Vision
Q/$ AProvider price ladder
Compare all 4Compare API pricing across 4 providers 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 | - | 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 400+ models from 60+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with optional auto-routing that selects the best model per prompt.
Portkey
GatewayProduction AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, semantic caching, and guardrails; Apache 2.0 core is fully self-hostable with the complete feature set.
AIRouter
RouterCommercial LLM router that analyzes incoming requests and routes to the optimal model for cost/quality/latency via a drop-in OpenAI-compatible API, with a privacy-preserving embedding mode that avoids sending prompt content.
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 core with a managed hosted tier for logging and analytics.
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Vision
Benchmark scores(3)
| Benchmark | Score | Version | Evaluation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chatbot Arena | 1235.0 | —Observed 2026-04-15 | — | Source |
| Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding | 59.4 | —Observed 2026-04-15 | — | Source |
| MMMU Pro | 55.3 | standard 4-option (original paper harness)Observed 2024-09-04 | — | Source |
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