GPT-4o Mini (07-18)
GPT-4o Mini (07-18) is a legacy integration reference; evaluate GPT-4o-mini before starting new work.
Use it for
- Teams maintaining an existing integration
- Workloads that can use a 128k context window
- Buyers comparing 3 tracked provider routes
Do not use it for
- New production launches
- Family
- GPT-4o
- Released
- 2024-07-18
- Context
- 128k
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2023-10
- Specialization
- general
- License
- Proprietary
- Training
- finetuned
Cheapest of 3 routes · OpenAI API · cache read $0.075
This model is deprecated. OpenAI recommends switching to GPT-4o-mini.
About
GPT-4o Mini (07-18) is OpenAI's GPT-4o model. It is deprecated (originally released 2024-07-18); use it only for reproducing earlier results or evaluating drift over time.
GPT-4o Mini (07-18) is a proprietary model in the GPT-4o family. The structured metadata tracks a 128k-token context window, vision, structured outputs, and code execution. This page tracks provider routes through OpenAI API, OpenRouter, and Replicate API, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.15 input and $0.6 output per 1M tokens. Headline tracked benchmarks include Aider Polyglot 3.6 and BigCodeBench 46.1.
Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks
Coding
2 relevant benchmarks in the decision map.
RAG
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Agents
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare all 3Compare API pricing across 3 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Batch in / out | Cache | Route |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI API | $0.150 | $0.600 | $0.075 / $0.300 | read $0.075 | Serverless |
| OpenRouter | $0.150 | $0.600 | - | - | Serverless |
| Replicate API | $0.150 | $0.600 | - | - | Serverless |
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
Benchmark scores(2)
| Benchmark | Score | Version | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 3.6 | 2026-04 | https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards |
| BigCodeBench | 46.1 | 2025-01 (Instruct Pass@1) | https://bigcode-bench.github.io/results.json |
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
API versions
gpt-4o-mini-2024-07-18gpt-4o-mini