LLM Reference

o4 Mini Deep Research

Released
2025-04-16
Last refreshed
2026-06-15
Status
Researched 28d ago
ProprietaryCommercial use: conditionalMultimodalRAGLong contextVisionJSON / Tool use

o4 Mini Deep Research is worth evaluating for rag, long context, and vision when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating rag, long context, and vision
  • Workloads that can use a 200k context window
  • Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route

Do not use it for

  • Workloads where another current model has stronger sourced task evidence
Specifications
Family
o4-mini
Released
2025-04-16
Context
200k
Architecture
Decoder Only
Knowledge cutoff
2024-06
Specialization
general
Openness
Proprietary
License
ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
Created by

Cutting-edge research and development.

San Francisco, California, United States
Founded 2015
Website
Pricing
Output / 1M
$8.00
Input / 1M
$2.00

Cheapest of 1 route · OpenRouter

About

OpenAI: o4 Mini Deep Research available via OpenRouter. Pricing: $2/1M input, $8/1M output.

o4 Mini Deep Research is a proprietary model in the o4-mini family. The structured metadata tracks a 200k-token context window, multimodal input, and structured outputs. This page tracks provider routes through OpenRouter, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $2 input and $8 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for o4 Mini Deep Research yet.

Top use-case fit

RAG

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Long context

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Vision

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
OpenRouter$2.00$8.00
Serverless

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalStructured Outputs

Benchmark peer barsfor RAG

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.

Frequently asked questions

What is the context window of o4 Mini Deep Research?

o4 Mini Deep Research has a context window of 200k tokens.

How much does o4 Mini Deep Research cost?

o4 Mini Deep Research is available at $2/1M input tokens through OpenRouter.

When was o4 Mini Deep Research released?

o4 Mini Deep Research was released on 2025-04-16.

Which providers offer o4 Mini Deep Research?

o4 Mini Deep Research is available from 1 provider: OpenRouter.